The Stormlight Archive® RPG: Plot Dice 

Best example ever

You have defeated four Shardbearers and get offered an exclusive opportunity to challange Sadeas to a duel, but the bridgeboy who helped you do it suddenly decides he deserves a similar boon..

Fantastic

You learn the truth about the coming desolation, but you get exiled into slavery by your people.

You successfully jaywalk. Nale walks by.

That's what I was thinking when he was explaining it too. Honestly, the Star Wars TTRPG's focus on narrative would be a good staring point for the Stormlight system. I'm interested in seeing more game mechanics.

​@@stevenmathews9355Genesys (the generic version of the starwars rpg) is what i am using for my Stormlight game that ive been running. It works great.

I love the narrative dice from Star Wars and Genesys. I was considering trying to homebrew a Stormlight setting for Genesys when I first heard of this RPG. I think that type of narrative complication of good and bad things happening at the same time is super important to a setting like Stormlight Archives and should do a lot to capture the feel of the books rather than just feeling like a re-skinned D&D.

Very good question. As a GM, my default reaction is to go with with d20, but thinking a little bit more about it, I actually like the idea of them both being in effect and not canceling each other out. Like a player is rolling for a desperate move and the outcome could straight kill them if they fail. They roll a Nat 1, but a 6 on the plot di. I like the idea of them failing the action, but just enough they manage to survive by the skin of their teeth or just dead enough they can be brought back somewhat easily. Or the reverse where they roll a 20 and a 1 on the plot di. They succeed on what they were attempting to do, but take a massive wound in the process, possibly killing them and them going out in a blaze of glory.

Was awesome hey. I’m so damn excited I haven’t stopped talking about it.

Close! Events are a bit like "Clocks" in Blades in the Dark. The GM can create a situation where Opportunity or Complication results can build toward a positive or negative event like "reinforcements arrive" or "the Everstorm hits" (in addition to the usual ways to spend Opportunity and Complication). Goals are more like character development milestones; in general, your goal is to check progress toward a Goal about once per session. When you complete a Goal, you get a Reward (which might be tangible, like an item, but is often a connection like a patron or a spren bond).

We hope you enjoy it! We've done our best to make this a system that's approachable for new players, while providing depth for experienced TTRPG fans. So far it feels like we're striking that balance.

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@@BrotherwiseGames same room as the RPG games are being played?! Then, maybe we'll see you there Saturday at 6:00 p.m. if we don't get there earlier! Thanks again for all the updates!

There's 4 possibilities (2 opportunities, 2 blank, a +2 complication and a +4 complication), so that's probably the biggest reason. The reason why they aren't using a d4 probably has to do with d4s being in many estimations, an ugly jagged thing that hurts your feet to step on, but also the psychological effect of using a "bigger" die making the effect feel better.

If that's your objection why not just put the bad ones on 1 and 2 and then the middle ones are neutral? This is far easier to "port" than the Genesys dice it is based on

​@@BrainGeniusAcademy That would be the smart way to do it if they had no numerical value associated with it, but the complications are worth 2 and 4 respectively. A player will roll their dice and get a 1, and then have to stop and think 'okay, the die says 1 but I actually add 4'. Because the number on the die does not match the number they're supposed to add, there's a little moment of mental translation that has to be done, where you gotta remember the rules and think 'a 1 means +4.' That little moment of stopping to think introduces mental friction. It's a pain point where many players will mess up, forget, go 'oh right, that should have been 3 higher, my bad.'

Would be cool to have, but you can also use a standard d6. 1: +4 to roll, but have a Complication 2: +2 to roll, but have a Complication 3-4: Nothing changes 5-6: Opportunity

@@zedgathegreat9122 Just use 2 and 4 for Complication so you don't even have to map numbers imo.

This is not 5e compatible and is an original system!

Not really! The GM is still prominent in our system - they decide when the plot die rolls happen!