Gathering Checks

Checks › Gathering appears only while the Gathering feature is switched on for the system.

The gathering check is authored once for the whole crafting system, beside the crafting and salvage checks. Individual gathering tasks do not carry their own check.

Known limitation (issue #2696). This page still chooses its editor from a system-level gathering mode that no screen can set any more, rather than from your tasks. On a system left at the default it shows a read-only Fixed d100 roll, and the roll cannot be authored here.

The Gathering page of the Checks screen, showing that in d100 mode the gathering check is a fixed roll against each drop’s own chance, with nothing to configure.

Authoring the check

The page is laid out in the same five sections the Crafting page uses — The roll, Outcomes, Triggers, Modifiers, and On failure — and they behave identically. See The Checks screen for the editor, and Check modifiers for the named-modifier library all three activities select from.

Set the gathering check to Which way is better → Lower is better, or its What the roll is measured against to Character value, to grade a Check task’s roll under a target or against the gathering character’s own value instead of a fixed DC. See Roll-under and character-value checks for the full guide, including a Check task’s own Target or Adjustment override.

Set the gathering check to Count successes to roll a dice pool and count qualifying dice instead of adding them into one total. See Success-counting checks for the full guide, including a Check task’s own Successes needed override. A counting gathering check can also let a player buy additional dice. A gathering check the Game Master resolves from the Journal, because the task is timed, reads and spends on the Game Master’s own computer. See Additional dice.

What the check decides

A gathering task set to Check is resolved by this check. The check rolls, produces a named outcome, and that outcome name is matched to one of the task’s result sets by name. A Check task whose system has no gathering check formula reports a setup problem for the GM to fix rather than resolving. See Routed Result Selection.

A legacy Progressive gathering task also rolls this check, and spends it under the system’s award mode. See Legacy Progressive Tasks.

When a task is attempted, its own Gathering resolution card decides which of these applies. See Gathering Resolution.