Datasworn

Impacts represent temporary, long-term, or permanent disadvantages. They affect your character's Momentum in two ways:

1. Max Momentum Reduction: Each marked impact reduces your maximum momentum (normally 10) by 1.
2. Momentum Reset Reduction: Impacts reduce the amount of momentum you regain during a reset:
   • 1 marked impact: Momentum reset is +1 (instead of +2).
   • >1 marked impact: Momentum reset is 0 (instead of +2).

Moves in the game will instruct you when to mark an impact, or may offer an option to mark an impact to avoid a greater danger.

In the context of Starforged, Moves are self-contained systems used to resolve actions, scenes, or questions, particularly during uncertain or risky situations.

Key principles for using Moves:

• Focus: Moves are centered on players and protagonists. Other characters do not make moves.
• Triggering: When an action or situation falls within the scope of a move, you must refer to that specific move and follow its instructions.
• Narrative Context: Moves are always preceded and followed by fiction (the imagined narrative). You should always envision the situation that triggers the move and the narrative changes that result from it.
• Terminology: If a move's name is underlined, it is being referenced by another move. For specific terms used within moves, refer to the project glossary.

In Datasworn, equipment is managed through an abstract representation called a supply meter, which tracks your overall readiness. Instead of tracking every individual item, you are assumed to be armed, armored, and equipped as appropriate for your character.

Use the supply meter to represent your general preparedness. You should note equipment at whatever level of detail suits your playstyle, focusing on how gear enables specific moves or helps avoid risky actions. If you need to verify if you possess a specific helpful item, use the Check Your Gear move.

Location Themes are used to envision the atmosphere, features, and encounters within an unusual or important location. Each theme provides three specific types of oracles:

• Feature: Reveals a new aspect of the location.
• Peril: Envisions a complication or hazard.
• Opportunity: Envisions a beneficial encounter or event (e.g., when rolling a strong hit with a match).

You can use a single theme to answer questions about a place (like an Infested cave) or combine a theme with other location oracles (like a Haunted Grave World) using oracle array techniques to determine which table to reference.

When using the Ask the Oracle move to define the nature of a location, discovery, or encounter, roll for both a Descriptor and a Focus. Combining these results provides an adjective/noun prompt.

Example: Rolling a Descriptor of 6 (Ancient) and a Focus of 67 (Relic) results in the prompt "Ancient Relic".

Descriptor Roll | Focus Roll
----------------|-----------
6 (Ancient)     | 67 (Relic)

When losing or consuming resources, use Sacrifice Resources.

Costs:

• Minor loss: -1 supply
• Serious loss: -2 supply
• Major loss: -3 supply

Note: If supply is exhausted (0), mark unprepared. When suffering resource loss while unprepared, envision the hardship and apply the cost to a different suffer move.

A progress track is a mechanism used to measure headway against goals or obstacles such as quests, expeditions, connections, and fights.

Progress tracks consist of a row of ten boxes that are marked (filled in) as progress is made. When initializing a progress track, you must assign it a rank which determines the severity of the challenge.

The available ranks, in increasing order of severity, are:

• troublesome
• dangerous
• formidable
• extreme
• epic

When playing with allies, the group shares a single Supply value. Any changes to this value are synchronized across all allies:

• Increases: When any ally makes a move to increase supply.
• Decreases: When any ally suffers an outcome that forces them to Sacrifice Resources.

Allies must adjust their individual supply meters to match the shared value whenever these changes occur.

Vehicles in the system are categorized into three distinct types, each with different rules regarding ownership, usage, and integrity management:

1. Command Vehicle: Your primary asset (e.g., a STARSHIP) earned at character creation. This is a shared asset if playing in a group. It features an integrity meter and can suffer from battered or cursed impacts.
2. Support Vehicles: Secondary assets that can be carried and launched by your Command Vehicle. They feature an integrity meter and can suffer from the battered impact.
3. Incidental Vehicles: Temporary vehicles acquired during a story. They feature an integrity meter but cannot be marked as battered.