Essence
Term
Creatures that can interact with the world have three essences: Body, Mind, and Soul.
Is a character muscle-bound, insightful, brilliant, charming, nimble, or hardy? Essences define these qualities—a creature’s strengths as well as weaknesses.
The four main rolls of the game: the Essence Roll, the Skill Roll, the Contesting Roll, and the Attack Roll, rely on The Three Essence which act as modifier to the Main Roll.
Each of these rolls use the essence to add or subtract using a modifier on a Main Roll.
The lowest and essence can get is -5. There is no cap to how an essence can go. If an essence reaches -6 typically the creature is considered Dead or Unconscious and unable to act.
d100
Mod
ADV/DIS