Furrian Dice, simplified as Fia – Dice, is a simple free-formed tabletop fantasy roleplaying game. Okay that was lengthy, it's basically a game where everyone plays a part in a story, whether it's yourself or an entirely different character.
The game is dictated by the Field Master (FM for short) and tells the story that you, as a player will go along. Remember, this is only a guide. Be prepared to have “rules” broken in many ways.
This part covers the process of the game.
There are two variations of Furrian Dice: simple and diverse. Diverse only adds to Simple and introduces the concept of stats, aspects and weapon skills. This guide shows the Diverse side of Furrian Dice.
Everything is led by the FM as they dictate through their story. As a player, you are given a chance to interact with their story and you can try as much to play though or go wild with it, as long as you don't end up throwing everyone off. The purpose of the game is to have fun, afterall.
During the story being told, you may be prompted or asked to do a dice roll through your actions. This is called a Task Resolution. Task Resolutions determine you success in doing an action.
For task resolutions, roll a number of d6 (six-sided dice) plus one based on how many skills/qualities you have that would reasonably help you in doing a task. After rolling, pick the dice you want that ends up being the result.
For every other dice that you haven't pick, you add 1 for every 6, and remove 1 for every 1.
The result will depend based on each interaction, which is displayed below.
| Roll | Success? | Degree of Success | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0- | No, and…, and… | 0 | Heavy Critical Failure |
| 1 | No, and… | 0 | Critical Failure |
| 2 | No | 0 | Failure |
| 3 | Yes, but… | 1 | Partial Success |
| 4 | Yes | 2 | Success |
| 5 | Yes | 3 | Success |
| 6 | Yes, and… | 4 | Critical Success |
| 7+ | Yes, and…, and… | 5 | Critical Success |
For any interactions that are not actively resisted, (like scenery or environment) refer to the “Success?” column in the table at the right.
Rolling a critical failure means that something bad happens in addition to you failing, worse if you have rolled a heavy critical failure. Partial success means that you succeed, but something bad happens, and a critical success that another good thing happens while you succeed in your action. The effect is greater the more or less points you get in a roll.
It is very unusual to someone to gain a heavy critical failure. Unless you have some item that changes the result of your success, the only way for you to get it is by rolling multiple 1s.
Not every situation is done this way, however.
Any interactions that includes conflict are considered a form of combat, be it social, physical, or magical combat. For conflicts like these, the table from non-conflict interactions don't apply unless in combat.
When a conflict interaction happens, dice not only serves as success, but it acts on how much it affects the one you are targeting. There are two types of conflict interactions: Interactive and Combat. The former being non-lethal and the latter being lethal.
In interactive conflicts and alike, your chosen result will result in “damage” to their AP. (Action Points)
The damage given is further adjusted by both sides' trait:
Dice result + User trait - Rival traitWith the trait being dependent of the situation at hand. (PHY, MAG, INT, CHA, PER, REF) |
Their AP will be reduced based on the result. When either has AP go down to 0, the conflict resolves based on who wins. Then, the AP will be reset to full afterwards. In interactive conflicts, the player will usually go first.
In non-conflict interaction where success is harder than expected, it turns into a one-sided conflict. These act as both non-conflict interaction and interactive conflict.
AP calculated the same way.In conflict where life is on the line, it works a little bit differently. Positioning matters here, several factors will limit you depending on the situation and even doing suprises can give you an advantage.
Tip:
If your character dies, do not worry, they are not completely dead, thanks to the rules of Furria! As long as the player chooses to revive outside, you can find them back at the party's last “save/rest point”. (Like in towns. A good idea to retreat if that's the case.)
If they have chosen to revive outside, the party cannot revive them back to where they are and instead have to meet them back to where they were, or the player who was revived have to run back to the party.
The combat is done in rounds, a turn order is given to see who can move first. Usually, FMs will say “roll for initiative”, which signifies a combat starting.
Turn order is dictated by the following at the start of the combat:
User SPD + User REF + dice roll |
The higher the result, the earlier you can act. If there's a tie, those who are in a tie will have to roll every time their turn comes to see who can act first.
Once every character has their turn order done, a round is finished and the turn order resets.
Each turn have their progression. Once the turn progression is done, but the turn ends.
For each action, you would have to roll for success, as if it was a non-conflict interaction. Unlike interactive conflicts and AP, HP does not reset after a conflict.
Movement in battle is dictated by your SPD. Each SPD is once “pace” in distance, which is roughly a meter. You can move before and after an action for as long as it is your turn, except when given the chance to act outside of turn.
Once all of your SPD for the turn is used up, you cannot move any further for the round.
Special Actions are something specific a character can do if they choose not to do any other action. All of them wastes an action during a round, so be mindful of using them.
When doing damage, you have to roll for success first, as it it was a non-conflict interaction. Once successful, damage is done similar to an interactive conflict.
This time both sides would have to roll the dice, for damage.
Attacking Die - Guarding DieAttacking STR - Guarding DEFAttacking SOR - Guarding RES+1 to the damage, provided the situation calls for itThe one who is getting hit will take damage based on the result.
After a conflict, session or particular action, the FM may give out 1-4 PT of experience to spend.
The PT can be used for various things:
2 PT for a new skill2+Lv PT to upgrade a skill or weapon skill3 PT to level up a trait or stat
Tip: This is not the only way to gain/upgrade a new skill, stat or trait.
Sometimes, you might be lucky enough to be given one due to circumstances.
Skills in FiaD6 are actions that allows you to do certain specific tasks in certain situations, allowing you to do something that only your character can do or have a better advantage in.
Skills can be used at anytime in the story as long as the player calls it and the FM allows it.
Tip:
We recommend trying to get creative with your skills,
up to the point even weapon skills can be used outside of battle as well.
Skills can be used without limits, except in battle.
Whenever in combat, you are limited by your FP. Each skill has a specific cost of FP in combat.
Once you are out of FP, you cannot do any more.
FP can be gained in several ways:
1 FP is gained per round1 FP restored when getting hit1 FP restored from being healed2 FP when guarding2 FP when readying without using it on the same roundThere is no way of increasing your maximum FP except temporarily, with certain items.
Now go out there and have fun!