Timeless: The Ladder

Psyche in Timeless: The Ladder

Psyche is divided into eight levels, each representing the average level at which the Timeless can bend reality.

Bending Reality

The Referee determines the Difficulty Level (DL) of a proposed alteration to reality according to the following chart:

1. Unusual – an event easily dismissed as mere rumor or fabrication.
2. Mysterious – an event with no readily available explanation.
3. Uncanny – explainable only with superstition, legends, and myths.
4. Unearthly – inexplicable in the paradigm of consensus reality.
5. Fantastic – literally like something out of a fantasy story.
6. Epic – remembered for years to come.
7. Legendary – remembered for decades to come.
8. Mythic – remembered for centuries to come.

In Timeless: The Ladder, bending reality follows these steps.

1. The Referee reveals the Difficulty Level of the proposed alteration.

2. Total the number of Boons and Banes only from Karma, Sanctum, Portal, or Power Spot. The DL already reflects the strength of consensus reality.

3. If you have at least two more Banes than you have Boons, add 1 step to the Difficulty Level. If you have at least two more Boons than you have Banes, subtract one step from the Difficulty Level.

4. Roll 4 six-sided dice. Read every 1 as a -1, every 6 as a +1, and the other four sides as zero. The total is how many steps above or below your average level of Psyche that you performed this time.

5. If the dice total -2 or less, the use of Psyche provoked a Backlash.

Increasing Psyche

Each Quest completed increases a player’s Psyche by one step.

Appendix: Probabilities in The Ladder