Dragon: The Embers Core Book - MrGone's Character Sheets

matter, and she becomes more and more
corrosive to the world around her in a vain
effort to regain the euphoria of glory. This
apathy often leads to madness, and for each
time Ethics falls the Dragon must roll her
new score and succeed or acquire a
derangement. For more information on
Derangements, see the World of Darkness
Rulebook, page 96.
The details of Ethics and the sins that
violate it are provided below.
Roll Results
Degeneration rolls are made with the
dice pool associated with the sin committed.
On derangement rolls Dominion Dragons
roll their Ethics unmodified (which means
no Willpower boosting, either). For
Scholars of the Five Evils, see the sidebar
below.
Dramatic Failure: Impossible. There are
no penalties applied to either pool, so a
chance roll cannot be made.
Failure: On a degeneration roll, your
Dragon slips away from grace, losing a dot
of Ethics as her standards blur. On an Ethics
roll, your Dragon’s actions have won her a
derangement.
Success: Recognizing her actions are
abrasive to her purpose, your Dragon
manages to maintain her sense of what is
just and vindictive, and is no less stable for
the mistake.
Exceptional Success: The infarction has
shown your Dragon the error of her ways.
Determined to stay righteous, she instantly
gains a single point of Breath.
Scholars Scholars of of the the Five Five Evils
Evils
The delicate and unsettling dance
between Good and Bad is played out
across the Oroboroi Code for these
saintly devils. Forever warped by their
rejection of their nature, the best sanity a
Scholar of the Five Evil can hope for is
the safety of the middle ground. For
every step in Ethics ABOVE 6 a Scholar
takes, they risk derangement and must
roll their modified Ethics (Scholar Ethics
Pool of the table above). Likewise, for
every step BELOW 6 a Scholar takes,
they risk derangement and must roll their
Ethics. Derangements received from
Ethics ratings 7-10 only fade when the
Scholar plummets back to Ethics 6. The
Derangements caused by Ethics ratings
1-5 are removed as the Scholar climbs
back to Ethics 6.
While in Good Dragon mode, any
sin committed at or below the current
Ethics rating causes a degeneration roll
(if it can be called that), but failure
pushes the Scholar’s Ethics rating up.
The Dragon may choose to abandon
Good Dragon mode the first time her
Ethics exceeds 8 in a story, or a single
time unprovoked once per story. If faced
with her most-hated Vice, a Dragon will
leave Good mode if she fails her
Composure roll.
While in Bad Dragon mode,
sinning works the same as it does with
Dominion Dragons with one exception:
the Ethics rating can only go down.
Again, the Dragon may choose to
abandon Bad Dragon mode a single time
unprovoked once per story, or the first
time her Ethics falls below 3 in a single
story. If faced with her most-hated Vice,
a Dragon will leave Bad mode if she fails
her Composure roll.
As for the Degeneration and
Derangement rolls:
Dramatic Failure: Impossible. There
are no penalties applied to either pool, so
a chance roll cannot be made.
Failure: In Good Dragon mode, a failed
degeneration roll causes your Dragon to
falsely believe her actions are for the
greater good. She plunges deeper into
her maniacal crusade, and her Ethics
climbs ever higher. In Bad Dragon