Azeryan

Fate Points (FP) will replace the D&D Action Point (AP) system in the Azeryani campaign. Like AP, characters start with one AP at the end of each Extended Rest, gain an additional AP at the end of each Milestone, and can expend one AP to take an extra Standard Action during their turn. Fate Points, however, can be gained and lost in other role-play related interactions throughout a play session, and can be spent for many uses beyond simply gaining another action. Many of the ideas for this system are drawn from the Hero Point systems I devised for all of my previous Rolemaster and story-teller style campaigns, as well as direct lifts from the excellent system of the same name from Spirit of the Century pulp RPG. This system is intended to directly tie roleplaying decisions and justifications to the outcome of mechanics, in a manner mostly absent from D&D's base rules.

Lyssara is a troubled city, though in better shape than much of the Empire. The Sea of Sand buffers her from the civil war which grips the rest of Azeryan, but the same isolation which protects her also prevents the Imperial Legions from extending their full protection. The D'Nost family still holds power and trade is as strong as ever. Foreign intrigues, real and imagined, are a constant reality. Nearly every citizen fears an enemy power trying to claim the city through a naval assault, or even a blockade, which would be nearly as good as a seige given that most foodstuffs are imported by sea. Organized crime has always found Lyssara to be a haven well away from Imperial oversight. As civil war has grown worse and the Legion's attentions pulled further away from the port, the crime lords have grown more overtly powerful, with rival "families" corrupted by the growing influence of suddenly revived religious cults, the aforementioned foreign tampering, and alien powers from the depths of the desert. Lyssara thrives, but her security balances on a razor's edge.