Resources & Recovery

Stamina is the fuel. Rest gives it back. Recovery trades one resource for another.

Stamina

What It Is

Everyone has stamina. It fuels special abilities and prevents disruption.

Pool Calculation:

7 base + alternating increments of +3/+4 per level

Stamina by Level:

• Level 1: 7 stamina
• Level 2: 10 stamina (+3)
• Level 3: 14 stamina (+4)
• Level 4: 17 stamina (+3)
• Level 5: 21 stamina (+4)
• Level 6: 24 stamina (+3)
• Level 7: 28 stamina (+4)
• Level 8: 31 stamina (+3)
• Level 9: 35 stamina (+4)
• Level 10: 38 stamina (+3)

Spending Stamina

Primary Uses:

• Buyout failed checks: When you fail a check outside combat, spend stamina equal to tier to succeed anyway
• Maintain disrupted Declared Maneuvers: When you fail a disruption check, spend stamina equal to the tier to keep it
• Fuel abilities: Some abilities cost stamina to activate
• Boost abilities: Some abilities allow stamina spending for extra effects

Rolling 1s on Checks:

• Each 1 rolled costs 1 stamina (but grants 1 Fate point)
• GM may replace stamina cost with narrative consequence

When You're at 0 Stamina

You can still use abilities. However:

On a failed check:

• Normal: Spend stamina to succeed
• At 0 stamina: Failure causes exhaustion instead, even if you would have spent more stamina than you have.
• At 0 stamina with exhaustion: Failure costs 1 Vitality, however much stamina you would have spent. Vigor does not absorb it, and at 0 Vitality it costs a wound like any other hit.

Exhaustion Effects:

• Roll all checks, attack rolls, tests, and saves at disadvantage

Recovering from Exhaustion:

• Rest: Removes exhaustion

Critical: Stamina does NOT recover from Recoveries beyond the Fate exchange below. Only rests restore stamina freely.

Rest & Recovery

Rest (8 hours)

Requires:

• 8 hours of rest
• 1 ration consumed
• Relatively safe location

Benefits:

• Restore ALL Vitality
• Restore Stamina equal to your level
• Remove exhaustion
• Remove non-permanent conditions

Wounds do not heal on a Rest. They close only through months of convalescence, treatment by someone with the Healing tree, or a litany (see Lasting Injuries in section 5). A healer with 2+ points in Healing may treat one wound on one patient over a Rest, given proper tools.

Recovery (10 minutes)

Spend resources to patch up:

• 1 Fate: Recover Stamina equal to your Tier
• 2 Stamina: Restore 1 Vitality
• 1 Stamina: Reduce Attunement by 1 (Druid)

Vigor refills automatically at the start of each combat.

Field Care

There is no dying state to rescue someone from: a character with no wound left to spend is dead. Field care is therefore about buying back slots before the killing blow, not about reviving the fallen.

Treating a wound. Each injury lists a Treatment (section 5). Clearing it gives back a wound slot, and a slot is another Second Wind the character can spend. This is the single most valuable thing anyone can do for a hurt party.

The Healing tree is the mundane route. A character with 2 or more points in Healing can treat a wound over a Rest with proper tools and supplies: one wound, one patient, per Rest. The wound's Severity sets how many points you need - each point past the second lets you handle wounds one step worse. Below 2 points you can dress and clean a wound but never close one.

Time is the free route, and it is slow. Where an injury lists a number of months, that much convalescence clears it without any help. Serious wounds and worse offer no such option: they wait for a healer or a miracle.

Miracles are the only route for some. Cursed, soul-deep, and mind-breaking injuries list a Litany and nothing else.

A Rest restores Vitality and Stamina in full, and does nothing at all for wounds by itself.