Site Exploration

Scenario

When players focus their attention and efforts on a small, local area, a Site Exploration ensues. Whether they're exploring a dilapidated ruin, assaulting a camp of outcasts, or exterminating a cryture nest, players will need to put a variety of skills to the test while managing time and risk to achieve their objectives.

Rules

A Site Exploration takes place in Strategic Time, using a tactical map, and rounds are approximately 10 minutes long. Roll Initiative to determine the turn order amongst players. During a Site Exploration, summoned crytures take their turns at the same time as their conjurers.

The longer players stay at a given site, the more likely they are to run into complications. Each site has a base Pressure level equal to its Challenge. At the end of each round, the Pressure of the site increases by 1 and a Complication check is rolled. If the roll meets or exceeds the current Pressure, then no complication happens. Otherwise, roll on the site's Complications table to determine what happens, and reset the Pressure to the base level.

Common Actions

The following actions are specifically useful to this Scenario, and can be taken without any extra abilities or equipment.

Detect Magic

You enter a meditative state to sense nearby magical effects.

Type: Clairvoyance

Passive Action

Roll: Sense + Magic

Success: You discover 1 hidden magic property of a feature, starting with the one with the lowest Difficulty.

Disarm Trap

You carefully tweak the mechanism of a simple trap to ensure that it doesn't trigger.

Type: Precision

Focused Action

Roll: Agility + Legerdemain or Mechanics

Success: You successfully disarm a simple trap.

Crif Fail: You trigger the trap.

Inspect

You take a close look at a specific feature.

Type: Awareness

Passive Action

Roll: Sense + Observation

Success: You discover 1 hidden property of a feature, starting with the one with the lowest Difficulty, or learn the Difficulty and Complexity of a task related to the feature.