House Rules

Genesys is an amazing RPG toolkit designed to allow players (and gamemasters) to fiddle with the rules to make it their own. This page contains house rules and general tinkerings either created by Triumph or found elsewhere on the internet. If a house rule is yoinked from somewhere else, its origin will be noted in House Rules Discussion page.

Combat

Friendly Fire

When attacking a target engaged with an ally, the attacker upgrades the difficulty of the check once. In addi-tion, if the attacker's check is unsuccessful and generates at least one , that is automatically spent to make the attacker hit one of the individuals engaged with the target (of the GM's choice), instead of hitting the target. The ally takes base damage from the attack; uncancelled are lost. The GM can spend additional . Each spent in this way adds the attack’s base damage to the total damage dealt.

Thrown Weapons

In the base game rules, thrown weapons use Ranged (Light) for building a pool. Instead, Athletics seems to make more sense. Thus everything from grenades to throwing knives, from splash bombs to spears, will use Athletics to build a pool.

Alternately, a GM might rule an a player trained in Alchemy can use that skill to build their dice pool. If the player takes this option, they still build the pool using their Brawn characteristic

Items Qualities

New Item Qualities: Bonded (Passive)

Bonded. In order to benefit from this item’s supernatural properties, you must bond to the item.

You may bond to a number of magic items equal to your Willpower plus one. Magically enhancing your Willpower (by the Augment spell or a temporary item-based effect) does not increase the number of items with which you can bond, but permanently raising Willpower (for instance, with the Dedication talent or the addition of a permanent magical prosthetic) does.

Story Points

Automatic Success

A player may move a number of Story Points equal to the difficulty of a check in order to automatically succeed on that check. This method provides no additional , , , , , or , to the roll, succeeding the check marginally with no ill effects.

Catastrophe!

If, at any time, all Story Points are in the game master’s pool, the game master can move all points to the player pool, then may bring about a devastating catastrophic event.

• The catastrophe may cause all player characters to suffer up to 10 points divided between wounds and strain, as determined by the game master.
• The game master can choose to make the catastrophe purely narrative. For instance, the player characters could be captured or a beloved NPC could be killed or betray them.
• The catastrophe can (and, in many instances, probably should) be scene-ending.

Item Quality Activation

When making an attack, a player may move a Story Point from the player pool to the game master pool in order to activate an item quality relevant to the attack made.