Fellowship 2e - Player Cheat Sheet

The Basics

Roll: 2d6 + Stat
10+: Full success
7-9: Partial success, pay a price
6-: Failure, Overlord makes a move

Hope/Despair: Roll 3d6, keep 2 highest/lowest

Stats

Basic Moves

Finish Them

Trigger: Attempt to defeat an enemy you hold Advantage over
Roll: Based on your approach:

• Kill them → +Blood
• Force retreat → +Courage
• Outsmart/terrify → +Grace
• Disable/knockout → +Sense
• Convert them → +Wisdom

10+: You succeed completely
7-9: Deal damage, lose Advantage
6-: Lose Advantage, face retaliation

⚠️ Requires Advantage: Teamwork, surprise, superior position, enemy hesitation

Overcome (Blood)

Trigger: Avoid, redirect, or prevent harm
10+: Stop the threat completely
7-9: Pay a price for success OR create temporary solution

Keep Them Busy (Courage)

Trigger: Distract or buy time
7+: Create Advantage for allies, attention on you
9-: They retaliate when time is up

Get Away (Grace)

Trigger: Get somewhere out of reach/sight
10+: Choose 2, 7-9: Choose 1:

• Get there quickly (avoid harm)
• Get there quietly (no attention)
• Bring someone with you

Look Closely (Sense)

Trigger: Examine situation/location closely
7+: Ask 3 questions, 6-: Ask 1:

• What's going on here?
• What's hidden or suspicious?
• How could _____ hurt/help me?
• What are they doing/will do next?
• What happens if I _____?

9-: Learn one answer "the hard way"

Speak Softly (Wisdom)

Trigger: Quiet chat with someone
Ask 3 questions:

• What can they tell me about _____?
• What were/will they be doing?
• What should I be wary of?
• What do they want? How can we help?
• What would they have us do?

10+: All answers honest
9-: One answer unhelpful
6-: One answer is false

Talk Sense (Grace/Sense/Wisdom)

Trigger: Ask someone for help with conviction
Choose approach:

• Detail plan → +Sense
• Appeal to emotions → +Wisdom
• Impress/trick → +Grace

7+: They do as asked
9-: You owe them a favor
6-: Expensive favor OR they can't/won't help

Bonds System

Creating Bonds

• Forge a Bond: Share meaningful experience, write one sentence
• Maximum: 3 Bonds per person
• Bond Examples: "Saved my life in the goblin caves," "Taught me their people's customs"

Using Bonds

• Work together with Bonds: Roll with Hope (3d6, keep 2 highest)
• Pay prices: Bonded ally can pay price for you instead
• No Bonds: Roll with Despair when working together (3d6, keep 2 lowest)

Breaking Bonds

• Harm ally: Immediately erase one Bond
• Zero Bonds: Can't work together effectively

Damage & Health

Taking Damage

1. Choose a stat and mark it damaged
2. Damaged stat: Roll with Despair when using it
3. All stats damaged + more damage: You're Taken Out

Being Taken Out

• Describe what happens to you
• Can't help for rest of scene
• Can the fellowship save you? How?

Healing

• Fill Your Belly: Use Food between scenes to heal 1 damage
• Share a meal: One person heals +1 extra damage
• Recover: Spend week in safety, heal all damage, reset all Gear

Common Gear Tags

Weapon Tags

• Ammo X: Limited uses, specify when empty
• Melee/Ranged/Thrown: Attack ranges
• Reload: Can refill Ammo during Recover
• Slow: Can't Keep Them Busy or Get Away with this
• Clumsy: -1 to Keep Them Busy and Finish Them

Armor Tags

• Armor X: Absorb X damage before taking stat damage
• Tough: Ignore Slow and Clumsy tags from weapons

Item Tags

• Healing: Use to heal 1 damage
• Food: Can Fill Your Belly with this
• Drunk: Makes you roll with Despair until you Recover
• Use X: Limited uses, gone when empty

Quick Move Guide

Need info? → Look Closely / Speak Softly
Avoid danger? → Overcome (reactive) / Get Away (escape)
Buy time? → Keep Them Busy
Get help? → Talk Sense
End fight? → Finish Them (need Advantage!)

Advancement

Level Up when: Answer 3 End of Session questions

• Did we learn something important about the world?
• Did we overcome a notable enemy or obstacle?
• Did we save a community or place from a dire fate?

Choose from playbook advancement options