Mechanics

Utilised Dice

Verve Rigger utilises d6 die for it's system to promote ease of access and use. Though polyhedral dice are becoming more common, they still come at a premium cost compared to the d6 which can be found in every general store in bulk for practically pocket change.

Challenge Value

Challenge Value represents difficulty and acts as a value an attempt must surpass to succeed.

Challenge Values are distributed generally by the following (but subject to change post play testing).

5. Easy

10. Simple

15. Balanced

20. Difficult

25. Very Difficult

30. Practically Impossible

Challenge Dice

A core part of Verve Rigger is focusing on idea that the player is the main driving factor of challenges and attempts. Traditionally through a D20, the player is a modifier to the result of the roll, you could get anywhere from a 2 to a 19 that results in your character not really feeling like it mattered until very late game.

Instead, Verve Rigger focuses on the player as the origin point of the attempt, and exerting effort to make up for and exploit any misgivings or advantages respectively.

A Challenge occurs when an objective needs to be met where there is an element of uncertainty involved. A player begins with their innate skill or ability with a certain task, and begins to build their effort. Beginning with the Challenge Dice and then, depending on the challenge, difficulty dice may be added to the dice pool, and finally players will be able to spend applicable cards in their hand in exchange for additional 1d6s to add to the attempt, this builds the Challenge Modifier.

To the Innate Skill or Ability the Challenge Modifier is added, and if it beats the Challenge Value the Challenge is succeed.

Below is a visual example.