Comfort Dice are a system that is meant to do a few things:
- Incentivize planning and good decision making while on adventures
- Incentivize creating adventure logs
- Facilitate settlement building and taming the wilderness
How it works:
You start an adventure with a comfort rating. The default comfort rating is 1. The maximum comfort rating is 3. There is no minimum comfort rating (don't try and find it). Each adventuring day, you are able to use an amount of comfort dice up to your comfort rating. Each time you use a comfort dice, you can add a d6 to a single ability check, saving throw, or attack roll. You regain all spent comfort dice when you finish a long rest. Writing an acceptable adventure log will increase the amount of comfort dice that you have access to for your next adventure by 1.
However, certain things will decrease your comfort rating. This will directly affect how many comfort dice you have at your disposal. If your comfort rating falls below zero, the DMs gain access to comfort dice to use against you. They can use an amount of comfort dice equal to your negative comfort rating. In combat, they can use these to add a d6 to an ability check, saving throw, or attack roll of an enemy. Outside of combat, the DM is able to use comfort dice to impact your rolls. On any d20 roll outside of combat, the DM can require you to roll an additional d6 and subtract the result of that roll from your initial roll. The DM regains all these uses when you finish a long rest. The DM is encouraged to be predictable and fair by expending these comfort dice at the most inopportune moments.
The following things will decrease your comfort level. We will never decrease it arbitrarily.
- Sleeping in uncomfortable conditions (inclement weather, dangerous locations, etc.)
- Gaining a level of exhaustion
- Spending a day traversing difficult terrain
- Contracting disease
- Failing to eat enough in a day
- Getting really, really lost
- Spending a day in exceedingly inclement weather
Your comfort level resets to its base value (defined by your role) when you finish an adventure. Comfort dice cannot be used during downtime.
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