Update: death and Sacrifice

This update to Fortune Dark makes a notable change to player death. In the original version, player characters would be smited (smote?) by their god and removed from the game once they got their fourth debility. Now they can have as many debilities as they can bear, but there’s also the addition of a new move, Sacrifice:

When the party decides that one of its members has fallen too far from their god’s grace and offers them as sacrifice, collectively describe how you perform this rite, then remove all cursed dice from the party’s fortune and claim 1 tribute. The sacrificed character’s adventure is over.

The idea is that now death is a choice with a dark benefit. Once a player has a lot of debilities, they’ll likely only be able to act by spending fortune and thus be a major drain on the party. So perhaps it’s time to put them out of their misery, a gift which cleanses the party’s stock of luck. Feels like a grim but enticing decision, and therefore very fitting for Fortune Dark. Thanks, Caleb, for the idea, which I’ve basically lifted wholesale!