Fortune Scale – 16 Tiers

Fortune Scale – 16 Tiers expands Voyage’s action resolution into a detailed 16-tier outcome scale, giving both successes and failures far more nuance while keeping the number of possible results manageable. Results range from Critical Failure through major setbacks, near misses, and Costly Success, all the way up through increasingly powerful successes and Critical Success. Each tier includes dedicated narration guidance designed to keep outcomes proportional to the action being attempted. Failures do not automatically make capable characters look incompetent, while exceptional successes improve the quality and consequences of the attempted action without granting unrelated achievements or impossible effects. Costly Success is the first successful tier: the character achieves their immediate goal, but with a meaningful cost, complication, or limitation. From there, higher results progressively improve execution, effectiveness, advantages, and the overall quality of the outcome. Designed to be fully setting- and genre-agnostic, Fortune Scale can be used in fantasy, science fiction, modern, historical, horror, romance, slice-of-life, and other worlds. This version offers a highly detailed outcome system while combining some of the finer distinctions found in the 20-tier version, making it a strong choice for players and creators who want substantial narrative variety without using the maximum number of tiers. The 16-Tier Scale Each tier begins at the following action score: Critical Failure — -85 and below Catastrophic Failure — -76 Reversal — -66 Costly Failure — -56 Setback — -46 Failure — -26 Near Miss — -11 Costly Success — -1 Narrow Success — 0 Clean Success — 10 Strong Success — 25 Advantageous Success — 40 Exceptional Success — 50 Breakthrough Success — 60 Phenomenal Success — 70 Critical Success — 80