Description: Through heavy use, a weapon can become damaged, weakened, or harder to use, resulting in lower accuracy or less damage until repaired. This is usually found alongside Gear Quality rules.
Find it In: Delve 2e, The Black Hack, Tiny Dungeon 2e
Keywords : Cinematic, Dangerous, Gritty, Pulpy, Survival, Tense
Genres: Dark Fantasy, Horror, Survival Horror, Sword and Sorcery
Description: Spells are replaced by relationships with spirits that have broad spheres of influence. The spirit may be called on to create any plausible effect that fits with its domain, allowing PCs to come up with inventive magical effects within a narrow scope.
Find it in: Pacts and Blades, World of Dungeons, Aer
Keywords: Rules-light, Dark, Pulpy, Weird
Genres: Sword & Sorcery, Low Fantasy, Pulp, Horror
Description: Characters trapped without light underground experience extreme terror that can cause confusing, trauma, or even death from the fear.
Find it in: the Black Hack
Keywords: Dark, Horrific, Dangerous, Gritty, Survival
Genres: Sword & Sorcery, Eldritch Horror, Survival, Horror
Description: Armor is subject to depletion dice or a similar mechanism to become weaker over time as it is used.
Find it in: the Black Hack, Shadowrun
Keywords: Gritty, Dangerous, Dark, Survival
Genres: Sword and Sorcery, Cyberpunk, Western, Post-apocalyptic, Horror
Description: A staple of Lovecraftian Horror, madness rules can be fairly easily ported to other systems. Some rely on a limited sanity resource, are connected to injury tables, or magical misfire effects. All add role-playing constraints and mechanical consequences.
Find it in: Low Fantasy Gaming, Call of Cthulhu, Tiny Cthulhu
Keywords: Dark, Weird, Horror
Genres: Sword & Sorcery, Eldritch Horror, Dark Fantasy, Horror
Description: Using a modification of the depletion dice, combustible light sources can be given a variable duration.
Find it in: The Delve 2e
Keywords: Rules-Light, Fast-paced, Dark, Tense
Genres: Sword & Sorcery, Western, Low Fantasy, Post-apocalyptic, Horror
