Blessings, Prayers, & Miracles

To cast a blessing, prayer, or miracle, there are two steps:

1. Commune with the Divine
2. Cast Prayer Dice

1-Commune with the Divine

The base DR for a blessing, prayer, or miracle is always 13 + [DICE].

• [DICE] - The total number of prayer dice the caster intends to use.

To commune with the divine for a blessing, prayer, or miracle:

• Draw 1 card from the bottom of the Fate Deck.
  • This represents the mortal reaching out to the divine.
• Draw 1 card from the top of the Fate Deck.
  • This represents the divine.
• Add the value of the cards together.
• If the sum is greater than the DR, the prayer, blessing, or miracle is granted by the divine.

Advantage/Disadvantage

• Advantage draws two cards from the top, taking the highest.
• Disadvantage draws two cards from top, taking the lowest.

2-Cast prayer dice:

• 5-6, dice are spent for the rest of the day until the drifter gets at least 6 hours of sleep.

Prayer Dice

Each prayer, blessing, or miracle uses prayer dice in some way to determine how powerful it is.

• [SUM] - The total sum of all prayer dice cast.
• [DICE] - The number of prayer dice used.
• [HIGH]/[LOW] - The values of the highest/lowest rolled prayer die.
• [AVG] - Average of the results of all cast prayer dice.
• [CHOOSE] - Caster picks one of the cast prayer dice.

Religious Codes, Conduct, & Commandments

All religions and cults have various codes that they must follow in order to remain in their chosen deity's favor. By adhering to these, a practitioner can see the favor of their deity shine upon them (the difficulty of the check lowers).

However, if a practitioner indulges in activities that go against the teachings of their order and deity, their prayers may go unanswered (the difficulty of the check increases).

Each time a practitioner gains favor with their deity, the difficulty is lowered by -2 to a maximum of 8.

• If a practitioner is fighting against a true enemy of their faith, or has been blessed by the highest priest of their cult/religion, then it is possible to immediately lower the difficulty to 6 for a certain amount of time.

Each time a practitioner goes against their deity, the difficult is increased by +2 to a maximum of 26.

If the practitioner reaches a difficulty of 26, they become an Apostate, having two options before them:

• Abandon their faith entirely.
  • If a Zealot, they loose all of their prayers, blessings, and miracles.
• Become a Heretic, an enemy of their former organizations.
  • Reset difficulty to 14, but practitioners of the cult/religion are violet towards them.
  • Must continue in their heretical ways, whatever they were.
  • If the Heretic can somehow manage to "defeat" or "take over" the cult/religion, they are no longer labeled as a heretic, and their heresy becomes canon doctrine within the organization.

Starting Blessings, Prayers, and Miracles.

A starting Zealot begins the game with a number of Blessings, Prayers, or Miracles equal to their SPR modifier (minimum of 1).

• These blessings, prayers, and miracles are from the sorcery list, but may behave differently due to being divinely inspired by a deity, and the deity using the Zealot as their vessel in the world.
• Each Cult/Order/Religion has their own domain, which lists which blessings, prayers, and miracles that fall under them.
• Each Cult/Order/Religion lists their own tenets, orders, and commandments which practitioners must follow to remain in favor.