Editing D6 Simple Rules Overview for Empire Ascendant (section)

===Force Points===
Every character starts with 1 Force Point (some templates may have 2).

Due to the nature of Play-by-Post games, expending Force Points to double the dice rolled on a specific roll would likely pose too many timing/editing issues. Instead, Force Points will have a different function:

Spending a Force Point allows a character's dice to "explode" whenever they roll a natural "6", and this effect lasts for an entire Scene or Encounter. Exploding dice mean that any dice that come up as a "6" can be rolled again, and the new roll added to the total in addition to the "6." Each additional time the die comes up as a "6" it continues to explode, leading to the possibility of dramatically high rolls.

When a Force Point is spent in this manner, one of several possible outcomes occurs:
*''Doing Wrong:'' You expend the Force Point in an act of evil or willful negligence, and gain a Dark Side Point as well.
*''Being Unheroic:'' You expend the Force Point in an act of minor selfishness.
*''Being Heroic:'' You expend the Force Point, but regain it at the end of the adventure (as determined by the GM), having committed an act of self-sacrifice or in the service of others.
*''Being Heroic at a Dramatically Appropriate Moment:'' You expend the Force Point, but you will regain it at the end of the adventure along with an additional Force Point, having committed an act of ultimate selfishness to the benefit of both others and the unfolding story itself.

====Dark Side Points====
*Whenever you gain a Dark Side Point, the GM rolls 1D.  If the result is less than the number of Dark Side Points, the character goes over to the Dark Side and is consumed by evil (i.e., no longer a Player Character).
*When a character with Dark Side Points rolls any Force Skill, they may take a +1D bonus per Dark Side Point they have.  Refusing to do so increases the difficulty of the roll by one level as the character attempts to resist the temptation of the Dark Side.
**Characters who have gone over to the Dark Side lose this bonus.