Miscellaneous Rules

Increasing Skills
Currency
Language

Increasing Skills

Shadows and Echoes uses the following table to determine the amount that a skill may increase using Experience Rolls:

A skill increases by 1% on a failed Experience Roll (when an Experience Roll is less than the current skill), and a skill increases by 1% automatically when a character fumbles that skill (once per skill per session).

Currency

Currency in Shadows and Echoes is meant to lessen the cognitive burden on players. Thus, the most common unit of currency, the Standard (made of silver), corresponds to one US dollar.

Units of Currency

Standard (formally, Silver Standard)
The standard or most common coin. Equivalent to one US dollar. One hundred Standards is equal to one Central.

Central (formally, Gold Central)
A convenience currency unit for expensive goods and services (and for the wealthy, as a more standard unit). One Central is equal to one hundred Standards.

Conversion with Mythras Currency

Generally, the cost of goods as listed in the Mythras core rules may be converted using the following heuristic:

One Shadows and Echoes Standard is equal to between 10 and 100 SP (Mythras Silver Piece).

This is due to the Mythras pricing lists being based around a roughly Bronze Age economy. As an example, the Mythras core rulebook lists a riding saddle as costing 60 SP. The cost of a riding saddle in today's modern world could conservatively be priced at between $600.00 USD and $6,000.00 USD.

Language

Shadows and Echoes is mostly language agnostic. This is because the kinden share a spoken language, and effectively everyone can understand everyone else. Regional dialects have somewhat complicated this, but that's rare.

On the other hand, while the True People also share a common language among their many tribes, the kinden and True People do not share a common language.

Note that while the kinden share a spoken language, written languages between kinden may vary, and thus require separate literacy skills.