Hope

Hope
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While Attributes and Skills are the basis for all actions a character attempts, and Traits provide qualities that set heroes outside the norm, Endurance and Hope are what keep an adventurer on the road or provide him with reserves of energy – often the only chance for a hero to succeed against overwhelming odds.

Endurance and Hope are internal resources that are tapped in a moment of need, or that are consumed when some form of threat takes its toll on the character.

How Hope and Endurance works
During play,heroes use up Hope and Endurance points as they are hurt or frightened, or attempt difficult tasks, and restore them through rest or life-affirming events.

A hero’s total Hope and Endurance scores are maximum values; recovered points cannot take either pool above its total.

Hope
Hope is a character’s reserve of spiritual fortitude and positivity. A hopeful character can keep going when physically stronger heroes have already succumbed to despair.

Shadow
Shadow points reflect the marks left on a character when his spirit is tainted by doubt and despair. Starting characters begin the game with a Shadow rating of zero.

Spending Hope During play, a player-hero spends Hope to invoke Attribute onuses or to trigger the effect of a Cultural Virtue.

When the Hope score of a hero decreases to reach his Shadow rating, the hero is considered to be Miserable. Check the Miserable box on the character sheet, and apply the effects to the character. If a character’s Miserable box was already checked, then losing Hope doesn’t provoke any additional effect.

If a character finds his Hope score reduced to zero points, he is spiritually spent.

A hopeless hero cannot bear to continue a struggle of any sort, and will flee from any source of danger or stress, by escaping from the field of battle, for example, or storming out on a debate.

Heroes may recover Hope during a game session spending Fellowship points, and possibly through their Fellowship focus