Growth Pool

How do I add dice to my Growth pool?

Challenge a Drive

Drives are Relationships and Values. When you challenge one, you get to triple its die for one roll, step it down for the rest of the episode, and note the die size (before stepping it down) in your Growth pool. You can challenge the same Value more than once in an episode. See page 7.

Choose Not to Rewrite a Drive

If you challenged any of your Drives, you stepped them down, remember? At the end of the episode, you may, if you wish, rewrite the Drive to represent your new understanding of that character or Value, and step it back up.

Or, if you want, you can leave it as is, at its new lower rating and earlier description. If you choose to do this for a Relationship, you add a die equal to that new low rating to your Growth pool. (This is in addition to the die you added earlier for challenging the value in the first place.) When you do it for a Value, you raise some other Value by the same number of steps (or split those steps among two or more other Values). See page 74.

Take Stress

If you've got Stress, and someone tends to you and reduces your Stress, you mark the die size of the pre-reduction Stress in your Growth pool. See pages 6 and 56.

Also, if you've still got Stress at the end of the episode, you can roll your highest Stress Trait with your Growth pool. See page 6.

What do I do with my Growth pool?

Buy Special Effects for your Abilities

You can spend a die directly out of your Growth pool to gain a new Special Effect. You may do this in the middle of a scene, and afterwards you may add the new Special Effect to your sheet. Leads and Features rarely have more than two or three Special Effects for each of their Abilities. See page 103. Also works for Gear. See page 115.

Buy new or step up existing Traits

Roll your Growth Pool in a Tag Scene at the end of an episode to increase your Traits (except Values) or gain new ones. See Tag Scenes for details.