Progression Clock - Pulled from Blades in the Dark, this is close to traditional 4e skill challenges. When I use these I ask the player to justify by adding something or trying it again in a different way.
In 5e this could be the danger of catastrophic failure, exhaustion, injury, or some other consequence the DM and Player agree on. Pushing a Skill - Pulled from Call of Cthulhu, it lets you take a single failed skill check and try again at some coast or greater risk. However, this is beyond the scope of this post so I'll save that discussion for another time. I hope the dangers of linking an outcome to the arbitrary "swinginess" of a d20 is apparent. Which isn't reasonable on a flat probability distribution. Both rely on a specific value on a single d20 having a particular meaning. I personally don't find a lot of value in degrees of failure or success at a cost. (You knew skill checks didn't crit right?) Success at a Cost - A 'fail forward' mechanic, where failure by a point or two still succeeds but grants some hindrance.ĭegrees of Failure - A roll that has effects by passing or failing by more than 5 points.Ĭritical Success or Failure - An optional rule that counts a natural 20 as an automatic success, or natural 1 as an automatic failure. But a binary pass/fail can be inadequate for extended actions or times when drama or tension calls for something more complex. Straight Roll vs DC - The standard check most of us know, using a single roll against a DC. Once enemies, these two families are now closely allied against their Common enemies, the Giants (including the gods Surtur and Thrym).Automatic Success - Essentially the Rule Zero I listed above. The Norse Pantheon includes two main families, the Aesir (deities of war and destiny) and the Vanir (gods of fertility and prosperity). Thus, they see their deities in every bend of a river, hear them in the crash of the thunder and the booming of the glaciers, and smell them in the smoke of a burning longhouse. Their powers reflect the need these warriors had for strong leadership and decisive action. Given the necessity of raiding for food and Wealth, it’s surprising the mortals turned out as well as they did. The warriors of the land have had to adapt to the harsh Conditions in order to survive, but they haven’t been too twisted by the needs of their Environment. It’s a brutal clime, and one that calls for brutal living. The Norse PantheonWhere the land plummets from the snowy hills into the icy fjords below, where the longboats draw up on to the beach, where the glaciers flow forward and retreat with every fall and spring-this is the land of the Vikings, the home of The Norse Pantheon. And Nephthys is a chaotic good goddess of mourning. Set is a chaotic evil god of Murder, perhaps best known for killing his brother Osiris. Anubis is the lawful neutral god of The Afterlife, who judges the souls of the dead.
The Egyptian Pantheon is unusual in having three gods responsible for death, each with different alignments. The Egyptian PantheonThese gods are a young dynasty of an ancient divine Family, heirs to the rulership of the cosmos and the maintenance of the divine principle of Ma’at-the fundamental order of truth, justice, law, and order that puts gods, mortal pharaohs, and ordinary men and women in their logical and rightful place in the universe. Every aspect of Nature echoes with their presence, and they’ve made a place for themselves inside the human heart, too. The thick boar-infested woods and the sere, olive-covered hillsides hold evidence of their passing. The Greek PantheonThe gods of Olympus make themselves known with the gentle lap of waves against the shores and the crash of the thunder among the cloud-enshrouded peaks.
The Celtic gods are as often served by druids as by clerics, for they are closely aligned with the forces of Nature that druids revere. When the first forester dared put a name to the face seen in the bole of a tree or the voice babbling in a brook, these gods forced themselves into being. They sprang from the brook and stream, their might heightened by the Strength of the oak and the beauty of the Woodlands and open moor.
The Celtic PantheonIt’s said that something wild lurks in the heart of every soul, a space that thrills to the sound of geese calling at night, to the whispering wind through the pines, to the unexpected red of mistletoe on an oak-and it is in this space that the Celtic gods dwell. They include deities that are most appropriate for use in a game, divorced from their historical context in the real world and united into pantheons that serve the needs of the game. The Celtic, Egyptian, Greek, and Norse pantheons are fantasy interpretations of historical religions from our world’s ancient times.
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