The Roll: Leg 4

★ 1. Build Your Pool

There is no base die. You add one die for each category below that fits the fiction. Maximum: 4d6. Roll them all, keep the highest. If no category fits, you can't roll, describe a different move.

🎯 Approach: Main Approach (+1d6) or an unlocked Secondary (+1d6) fits. When driven by your Weak Approach, roll with disadvantage.

🐾 Animalfolk Aspect: a positive aspect of your species fits (e.g. Bear's thick hide, Cheetah's speed).

🎒 Gear / Item: a tool, weapon, or piece of equipment you have fits.

🧠 Specialty: your playbook specialty or class power fits.

🪙 Momentum or Help: spend 1 Momentum, or an ally helps and shares the risk.

More dice means better odds, never guaranteed safety. Zero dice means no roll, the fiction alone decides.

6

Clear success.
You do it.

4–5

Success with trouble.
You do it, but there is a cost, danger, hard choice, or complication.

1–3

Trouble.
Things go wrong, the danger hits, or the situation gets worse.

🏴 3. Signatures

Your pirate's signature move might apply, read it and follow the rules. Every pirate has an advantage in certain situations.

⚠ 2. Weak Approach, disadvantage

Each playbook has a Weak Approach: its blind spot. When the fiction is driven by it (an Analyzing Adept trying to Unify a crowd, a Guardian trying to Innovate on the fly), build a dice pool from the other categories and roll with disadvantage: drop the highest die.

This preserves each playbook's distinct feel. You can still succeed at weak actions with a big pool, but the chance of a full success is lower.

🎲 Try it, the dice are real

Add a die for each category that fits (max 4d6). No fit = no roll. ⚠ Weak Approach

Tick the categories that fit, then roll.

✕ 4. Example roll

Kira the Adventurer swings from the rigging to kick a shark guard off the deck. She builds her pool:
🎯 Engage (her Main Approach) · 🐾 Cheetah's Speed · 🎒 Boarding cutlass · 🪙 1 Momentum
= 4d6. She rolls [6, 5, 2, 1]. Highest is 6.
Clear success. The guard flies overboard.

Kira the tiger pirate kicking a shark guard across the deck

⚠ Weak-approach example

The Analyzing Adept's Weak Approach is Unify. She tries to rally a frightened crowd behind her, a Unify action. She builds her pool from what else fits: 🐾 Panda Calm · 🪙 Momentum · 🤝 Ally helps: that's 3d6. She rolls [6, 4, 2].

Weak Approach means disadvantage: she drops the 6 and keeps the 4: success with trouble. The crowd follows, but her voice cracks and her rival smells blood.