⟨SYSTEM⟩ BEFORE YOUR FIRST TURN

How this plays

Four things worth knowing. It takes a minute and it is the difference between poking at a demo and playing the game.

1. Looking and asking never spend a round. Start a line with ? to ask a question or study something; the clock does not move. Only commitment — going somewhere, taking something, persuading, forcing — spends one.
2. Type anything. The three suggested actions are the obvious ones anybody in the room would think of. They are a floor, not a menu. Your own idea should routinely beat all three.
3. Failing is worth something. A miss earns ticks toward the skill you were using, and a bad miss earns double. Failure opens doors sideways; it does not stall the story.
4. The system rolls, not the teller. The dice land before a word is written, and the teller is handed the outcome and told to narrate that one and no other.

All-ages table, any genre. Your story waits between visits and reopens with your vault key. The longer version, if you want it.

⟨SYSTEM⟩ WHERE DOES THIS HAPPEN?

Choose a setting

A built district: its people were born, married, worked and died there, they hold trades and grudges, and they know only what they would know.