Potency is a fantasy tabletop roleplaying game set in a world where gods and demons, the arcane and the divine, the magical and the mundane essentially all are the same. Within all things containing the spark of agency resides potential. Within all beings, living and otherwise, through cognition reality can changed. Moving a rock by hand or by will is merely two different ways of something with cognition using its potential through its agency to alter the essence of the rock.

In this world, most are unaware of this fundamental truth and thus the belief in gods and in magic are widely spread. A few have an intuitive sense of parts of this truth. Fewer still understand it fully.

The System

• D6-based, skill-based, roll-over resolution with an exploding and imploding wild die.
• Flexible action economy where the resource potential governs how much can be done and how well.
• Combat is dangerous and sustaining damage lowers one’s potential until healed.
• Magic is flexible, but far from required to play a powerful character.
• Fortune points that can be used to increase the number of dice rolled are awarded when performing actions that either massively succeed or massively fail. The former to provide a boon when doing well, the latter to provide a mechanism to fail forward.
• All rolls are within a range of 0-9 dice rolled with most in the range of 3-6 dice.