Appendix

Range Bands

Range Bands represent the approximate distance you are from your target, and affect what attacks are possible.

Melee Range: 0-2 meters
Short Range: 2-10 meters
Medium Range: 10-25 meters
Long Range: 25-50 meters
Far Range: 50-100 meters

Scenes

Rather than tracking a specific amount of time that has passed between events, it is often easier to gauge if a "scene" has passed. You can think of a scene like in a movie encounter, where an event transpires in a given location for a short while and then a new scene is portrayed next.

Short Scene: Roughly 5 minutes; e.g. a quick sparring match, traveling across a village, etc.
Scene: Roughly 30 to 60 minutes; e.g. a battlefield skirmish, meeting a noble, a burglary, etc.
Long Scene: Several hours (3 to 5); e.g. a party, a city hall meeting, etc.
Long Rest: Roughly 6-8 hours of rest.

Material Units

These terms are shorthand for volumes and materials referenced by Sorcery and Chi powers.

Earth: Includes Soft Earth and Hard Earth.
Soft Earth: Soil, sand, pebbles, loose gravel, soft clay, and similar loose or workable earth.
Hard Earth: Stone, heavy gravel, bedrock, ore, and similar dense or solid earth.
Block: 1 cubic meter of volume; e.g. a 1 meter cube.
Chunk: A 50cm cube. 8 chunks fit in 1 block.
Brick: A 20cm cube. 125 bricks fit in 1 block.
Barrel: 1 cubic meter of water or similar liquid.

Material Notes

Alchemical stones and warded infrastructure are highly resistant or immune to earth magic.
Water magic can affect liquids other than water, but viscosity may reduce performance or require GM judgment.
Ice creates difficult terrain and inflicts Disadvantage on physical actions unless a power or circumstance says otherwise.
Burning targets can spend an action to put themselves out.
Aura-warded items, such as items held, worn, or carried by a creature, usually resist external manipulation effects like telekinesis.

Excavation Benchmarks

These are rough baselines for skilled, mundane labor under good working conditions.

A professional digger, with optimal tools, can excavate 1 block of soft earth in 1 hour.
A professional miner, with optimal tools, can excavate 1 block of hard earth in 10 hours.
Poor tools, unstable ground, tight spaces, hauling spoil, shoring tunnels, or trying to work quietly can slow excavation.
Magic can exceed mundane excavation rates where stated; e.g. Move Soil moves about 360 blocks per hour, while Move Stone moves about 3 blocks per hour.