Careless Whisper House Rules

Sneak Attack

• You can perform a Sneak Attack (Rogue ability) with a Finesse, Light, or ranged weapon.
• Normal: Sneak Attacks can normally only be performed with Finesse or ranged weapons.

Luck Points

• A character starts each game session with 1 Luck Point. At the end of each game session, characters lose any unspent Luck Points. Luck Points grant the following potential benefits:
• Gain Advantage: A player can spend a Luck Point whenever he or she makes an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw to make that check at advantage.
• Gain a Reroll: On a failed roll, the player may spend a Luck Point to re-roll. On a result of 1 through 10 on the second roll, add 10 to the result, an 11 or higher remains as-is (so the re-roll is always a result of 11-20). You must spend the Luck Point to improve a roll before the DM announces the outcome of your initial roll. You cannot spend Luck Points on die rolls made by the DM or other players.
• Inspiration: A player can spend a Luck Point to get sudden inspiration in the form of a hint, clue, or bit of help from the DM. It might be a way out of a difficult situation, a vital clue for solving a mystery, or an idea about an enemy’s weakness. It’s up to the DM exactly how much help the players get from inspiration and how it manifests, but since Luck Points are a limited resource, the help should be in some way significant.
• Recover: A player can spend a Luck Point to recover faster. A Luck Point allows you to immediately remove a charmed, incapacitated, or stunned condition, or 1 level of fatigue.
• Players can gain additional Luck Points from the DM or other players through Social Traits and role playing. There are 3 extra Luck Points per game session that the DM can award, or that players can award to other players. Luck Points are stored in Luck Bank. When a Luck Point is awarded it is removed from the Luck Bank and given to a player to use. Once the Luck Point is used, the player returns it to the Bank. Points can only be awarded if they are available in the Bank. Luck Points are awarded for excellent role playing, or through actively playing Social Traits.

Social Traits

• Personality Traits: These are simply quirks and habits of the character. They do not gain Hero Points.
• Bonds: These are the entities, places, and things that that character holds dear.
• Ideals: These are the personal beliefs and philosophies that drive the character's decision making.
• Flaws: These are the limitations, weaknesses, vices, and phobias that inhibit the character in some way.
• Regrets: These are specific flaws and missteps that continue haunt and stay with your character in some way. While flaws are often a character trait, a regret is often an action or something that happened to your character that stays with them and continues to cause them difficulty.

Player-Generated Difficulties

• When you roleplay your character's decision making with these in mind, you can gain additional Luck Points.
• You must make a decision that is unwise, tactically unsound, or otherwise causes difficulties for you or the other PCs, but is in line with your character's Social Traits, personality, or backstory.
• If this decision is motivated by one of your Social Traits, the DM or other players, may grant you an extra Luck Point.
  • Bonds can motivate decisions in order to preserve or assist your Bonds.
  • Ideals can motivate decisions as part of upholding that belief or philosophy.
  • Flaws and Regrets can motivate decisions because of the character's limitations, weaknesses, or Regrets.
• If you make such a choice, inform the table of your doing so, and indicate which Social Trait you are motivated by.
• If the DM or the other players agree, they will award you 1 Luck Point.

DM-Generated Difficulties

• The DM may also choose to take advantage of your Social Traits in order to make the scene more difficult.
• The effects of this may vary, but can include the triggering of traps, arrival of additional enemies, the infliction of disadvantage on a PC's roll or the addition of advantage to an NPC's roll.
• When the DM does this, they will award you 1 Luck Point.

Healing Rules

There are multiple ways for characters to gain the benefit of non-magical healing.

During Encounters

• Healing Surge: As an action, you may roll a number of your Hit Dice (maximum equal to your Proficiency bonus), and add your Constitution bonus to each die result. You recover that many hit points.

Short Rest

• Tending Wounds: There are two ways to end wounds by characters during a short rest.
  • Healer's Kit: You may use one use of a healer's kit to allow you to spend as many of your Hit Dice as you like to recover hit points. You may use this on yourself or on someone else. This constitutes both of your actions during the short rest.
  • Medicine Check: Alternately, another character may make a Wisdom (Medicine) check while working on you during the short rest. This is a DC 12 check, and constitutes both of your actions during the short rest. You may make a check for yourself, but this check is made at disadvantage.

Long Rest

• Recuperating Strength: During a long rest, characters recover up to half of their Hit Dice.
• Healing Rest: During a long rest, you may spend as many Hit Dice as you like in order to recover hit points. This comes about as a natural part of the long rest.

Contacts

Players start the game with 2 Level 2 Contacts in Sharn that give them access to advantage on social checks. Players can gain contacts as campaign progresses.

• Level 1: Add proficiency to relevant skill checks
• Level 2: Advantage on relevant skill checks