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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 8921283" data-attributes="member: 6785785">I was going to post about Resistances and Fallout from Spire. A strong favorite of mine. A little. Silver is one of five Resistances that a PC has. The others are Blood, Mind, Reputation, and Shadow. They represent the different things that are at stake when a PC takes an action. They’re the way you “take damage” in the game. What I find interesting about it is that you take Stress to a Resistance when a roll goes poorly, or if you get a Success with Stress result. The GM rolls the damage and tells you which Resistance to take it to. Then, every time you take Stress, the GM rolls a d10. If the roll is lower than your current total Stress, then the Stress becomes a Fallout. This is when Stress becomes a specific drawback. Very commonly, you may suffer a Blood Fallout, which can be something like “Bleeding” which has ongoing penalties, or “Broken leg” which means you broke your friggin leg. Or you may take Mind Fallout like “Permanently Weird”, which means you take on a character trait that may be problematic for you. With Silver, it would mean you’ve taken some kind of financial hit. You’re in hock to the wrong people, or you lose a prize possession. The amount of Silver Resistance you have (meaning essentially bonus slots that you can take Stress and it doesn’t count toward Fallout rolls) is a general indicator of your wealth and lifestyle. What I like about this system is it creates a variety of consequences that the PCs face. Things happen to them as they progress through the game… things that last and which you can point back to and say “oh yeah, that’s when my character began to go mad” or “that’s when I lost my armor”. There are actual consequences to the PCs actions that linger and shape the subsequent events. It’s a great system, and doesn’t get the attention I’d say it deserves.</blockquote>

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