Fortune Scale – 20 Tiers

Fortune Scale – 20 Tiers expands Voyage’s action resolution into a highly detailed 20-tier outcome scale, giving successful and failed actions far more room to differ in meaningful ways. Results range from Critical Failure through setbacks, partial progress, 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 is the most detailed version of Fortune Scale, intended for players and creators who want the full range of Voyage’s custom success-tier system. The 20-Tier Scale Each tier begins at the following action score: Critical Failure — -96 and below Catastrophic Failure — -95 Disastrous Failure — -89 Reversal — -82 Costly Failure — -74 Setback — -64 Clear Failure — -53 Partial Progress — -40 Near Miss — -25 Costly Success — -10 Narrow Success — 0 Clean Success — 10 Efficient Success — 26 Strong Success — 41 Advantageous Success — 54 Exceptional Success — 65 Breakthrough Success — 75 Decisive Success — 83 Phenomenal Success — 90 Critical Success — 96