Bonus Dice and Penalty Dice

(Primarily for Use with Opposed Dice Rolls)

Sometimes the prevailing conditions, environment, and available can hinder or benefit a skill or characteristic roll. Certain conditions mean that the Keeper may grant a Bonus die or a Penalty Die to a roll.

Bonus dice and Penalty dice are not trifling small additions or subtractions to a few percentage points, and so should not be used without good cause. If a factor is so small that it would only modify a roll by a few percentage points then don't bother with it. Driving in light rain should not inflict a Penalty die, but racing against another driver in heavy torrential rain (opposed Drive Auto roll) - now there's your penalty!

In most cases, the Keeper would boost or penalize a roll with a single "bonus die" or "penalty die", but where conditions are highly advantageous or dire, a second Bonus die or Penalty die could be applied.

One Bonus die and one Penalty die cancel each other out.

See Difficulty Levels vs. Bonus/Penalty Dice