Editing DRYH: Mortal Coils

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Mortal Coils is a "one shot" style short game of Don't Rest Your Head. The City Slumbering and its surrounding Townships are located in a mid-to-late 20th century middle Amarican-esque setting with the Mad City (and it's associated Mad Townships) overlapping that same space and time, but with their own rules and reality.

Nightmares in this game will tend towards the Lovecraftian mixed with a smattering of grimdark fantasy elements and a liberal dose of classic horror tropes rather than the suggested nightmares of the core game (though some of those will make an appearance as well).



[[File:DRYH MC 004.png|600px|center]]



==Player Character Table==
{| class="wikitable"
| '''Character'''
| '''Played by'''
|
! [[File:D002.png|24px|Discipline Dice]]
! [[File:PM002.png|24px|Permanent Madness]]
! [[File:X002.png|24px|Current Exhaustion]]
|
! Fight
! Flight
|
|scope="row" colspan="2"|'''Nightmare'''
|-
|scope="row" colspan="12"|  
|-
| '''[[DRYH:_Mortal_Coils_-_David|David Ericson]]'''
| ''[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?members/hyena_creative.152946/ Hyena_Creative]''
|scope="col" rowspan="5"|
! 3
!0
!0
|scope="col" rowspan="5"|
| 0'''/0'''
| 0'''/3'''
|scope="col" rowspan="5"|
|scope="row" colspan="2"| David Ericson
|-
| '''[[DRYH:_Mortal_Coils_-_Jackie|Jackie Tindall]]'''
| ''[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?members/inoshiro.165791/ inoshiro]''
! 3
!0
!0
| 0'''/2''' 
| 0'''/1'''
|scope="row" colspan="2"| The Quiet
|-
| '''[[DRYH:_Mortal_Coils_-_Danny|Danny Fitzpatrick]]'''
| ''[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?members/monored.178475/ MonoRed]''
! 3
!0
!0
| 0'''/2'''
| 0'''/1'''
|scope="row" colspan="2"| The Violence
|-
| '''[[DRYH:_Mortal_Coils_-_Julie|Julie Nguyen]]'''
| ''[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?members/hardkore-keltoid.15056/ HardKore Keltoid]''
! 3
!0
!0
| 0'''/1'''
| 0'''/2'''
|scope="row" colspan="2"| The Machine
|-
| '''[[DRYH:_Mortal_Coils_-_Alexander|Alexander Carlyle]]'''
| ''[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?members/superzero.175498/ SuperZero]''
! 3
!0
!0
| 0'''/1'''
| 0'''/2'''
|scope="row" colspan="2"| She Who Lurks 
Beneath
|-
|scope="row" colspan="12"|  
|-
|scope="row" colspan="10"|'''HOPE COINS'''
!scope="row" colspan="2"| 0
|-
|scope="row" colspan="10"|'''DESPAIR COINS'''
!scope="row" colspan="2"| 0
|-
|scope="row" colspan="12"|  
|-
| '''GM'''
|scope="row" colspan="11"| ''[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?members/brahnamin.70442/ Brahnamin]''  
|-
|}

==Character Generation Summary==
:'''Choose your character's Name''' and a '''Concept''' that fits your character. 

:'''Answer the Five Questions''' to define what your character is all about.

:'''Divide three points''' between your '''Fight''' and your '''Flight''' response. You can have three in one and none in the other or two in one and one in the other.

:'''Choose your Exhaustion Talent''' - that thing that you do better than anyone else.

:'''Choose your Madness Talent''' - that impossible thing you do that no one should be able to do.
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You are welcome to use this [[DRYH:_Mortal_Coils_-_Character_Template|'''Character Template''']] or design your own.
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==Rules Summary==
<u>'''Dice You Have to Roll'''</u>
:Each roll will include all your discipline, all your permanent madness, and all your current exhaustion
<u>'''Additional Dice Options'''</u>
:Once per roll, you may increase your exhaustion by one.
:Any time you roll, you may add one to six dice of temporary madness to your roll.
<u>'''Reading the Dice'''</u>
:To determine the degree of success, count the dice that show 1, 2, or 3.

:To determine the strength of a pool, find the die of that color showing the highest number.

:If you meet or beat the GM’s degree, you succeed. Otherwise, you fail.

:To determine what dominates, pick the pool with the highest strength.
<u>'''Basic Consequences'''</u>
:If discipline dominates, things stay under control. You have the option to remove a response check-mark or decrease your exhaustion by one.

:If exhaustion dominates, your resources are taxed. Increase exhaustion by one.

:If madness dominates, things get more chaotic. Check off a response and behave accordingly.

:If pain dominates, you pay a greater price. Pay a coin into the GM’s despair coffer.
<u>'''Major Consequences'''</u>
:If exhaustion is increased above 6, you crash.

:If you must check off a response, but can’t, you snap.

:If you crash, you fall asleep, or face some other serious defeat (like death).

:If you snap, you go mad for a time, clear out your responses, lose one discipline, and gain one permanent madness.

:If you lose all discipline, you become a Nightmare. You’re an NPC now.
<u>'''Talents'''</u>
:To make minor use of an exhaustion talent, your exhaustion must be at least one. On the affected roll, your minimum number of successes is equal to your current level of exhaustion.

:To make major use of an exhaustion talent, you must increase your exhaustion by one, and you may add your current level of exhaustion to the roll as successes.

:To make use of a madness talent, you must add one to six temporary madness dice to the roll, as determined by the GM for the potency of the effect.
<u>'''Coins'''</u>
:The GM may spend one coin of despair to add or remove a 6 from any pool in play; the coin pays into hope. If this causes pain to dominate, no coin is paid into the despair coffer.

:Any player may spend one coin of hope to remove one exhaustion, or to remove a check mark from fight or flight, or to add a 1 to the protagonist’s discipline pool.

:Any player may spend five minus discipline in coins of hope to recover one point of discipline and remove one point of permanent madness.
<u>'''Rule Exceptions'''</u>
:Regarding Helping another character, the rules in the book all apply, in that you can only lend your discipline dice, they count only towards success (not strength/dominance), and your character is also affected if Madness, Exhaustion, or Pain dominate.
:'''Houserule:''' You can only lend Help dice for environmental challenges, never for direct nightmare challenges.

==Metagame Tools==

'''<u>Threads</u>'''
:IC Thread

:<u>[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/dryh-mortal-coils.853315/ OOC Thread]</u>

:<u>[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/recruitment-dont-rest-your-head-mortal-coils.853195/ Recruitment Thread]</u>

'''<u>Resources</u>'''
:<u>[http://orokos.com/roll/?action=roll Orokos]</u> Online Dice Roller.

:<u>[https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?709532-Grand-Central-Absences-Station Absences Thread]</u> If you can't post for whatever reason let us know here or in OOC.

:<u>[https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/28052/Dont-Rest-Your-Head Don't Rest Your Head RPG (PDF)]</u> You can play in this game without your own copy, but if you'd like to pick it up, the PDF is available at DriveThruRPG for '''$5.00''' at the time of this posting. 
:'''Note:''' I am not affiliated with Evil Hat Productions and receive no compensation of any kind from any purchase of this product.

==Expectations==
<u>'''Post Frequency'''</u>
: I am asking for a '''daily''' posting commitment for this game as a general rule, with the understanding that posting might be less frequent on weekends and holidays.
 
<u>'''Post Absences'''</u>
: If you will NOT be able to post, for whatever reason, please ping us in OOC so we know what is going on or post to the <u>[https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?709532-Grand-Central-Absences-Station Absences Thread]</u> (I pretty much check that thing every time it lights up).

<u>'''Post Formatting'''</u>
: Please bold your character's name at the top of each IC post '''OR''' bold the first instance of your character's name in the body of the post. We all game with lots of folk, sometimes with the same players in different games; this just makes it easier to keep track of which character we're addressing.

: If you are addressing another PC in your post it is helpful to bold their character name as well so it stands out for them.

: OOC blocks are fine for showing dice rolls and brief OOC comments directly related to a particular post. Please sblock if you need to include large blocks of text related to your IC post. All other OOC content should go in the OOC thread itself.

<u>'''Dice Conventions'''</u>
: Please list your dice in the description line in Orokos in the order you are rolling them. ie - Discipline, Exhaustion, Madness (and how many of each you are rolling). These can be abbreviated D,E,M.

: Please roll your dice in such a way that individual results are displayed, not sums, and so that each pool is distinct from the other pools.

:: So if you wanted to roll 3 Discipline dice, 2 Exhaustion, and 5 Madness, the description line in orokos would include the notation D3. E2. M5

:: The best notation I know (for orokos) for the above roll would be 3#1d6; 2#1d6: 5#1d6

: Please link all dice rolls back to your dice roller.

<u>'''PVP'''</u>

I don't have much patience when it comes to GMing PVP games. Intercharacter conflict and disagreement is fine, but when it comes to actions or expression meant to force a specific response, I default to the following:
: '''Unilateral Permission:''' The other player agrees to your action. No rolls are needed. Just RP it out.
: '''Limited Permission:''' The other player doesn't agree that it is an automatic thing, but does agree to let the dice decide.
: '''No Permission:''' If the players involved do not agree to PVP, it doesn't happen. Move on with something else.