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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ART!" data-source="post: 8323351" data-attributes="member: 79926">Cortex is of course a very modular system, but some iterations have an array of stress tracks.Smallville had Afraid, Angry, Exhausted, Injured, and Insecure. Each of those starts at a d4 (traits in Cortex are rated in die type, not numeric values), and the die "size" goes up (from a d4 to a d6, d6 to d8, etc.) when you take "damage" to that kind of stress.When you're in conflict with someone, they can use one of those stress dice in their dice pool roll against you, and them rolling larger dice is bad for you.When one of your stresses gets to a d12, if you take stress to that track again, you are out of the scene in some way or aother appropriate to that kind of stress.If you get someone to help you recover from stress (which I think is the only way to recover - Smallville is one of the Drama versions of Cortex, so it's all about the relationships), you get to add the die type they helped you recover from to your growth pool, which you use to "level up" later.Cortex is pretty complicated in some ways, but it's kind of amazing how it all makes sense.</blockquote>