Aethyr Point Awards

Characters advance by earning Aethyr Points, which raise their Aethyrflame Intensity. There are no experience points. This page restates the Aethyr Point rules from the GM’s side; where the two differ, that page is the rule.

Encounters

• Every encounter the party completes gives each character at least 1 Aethyr Point.
• Up to 3 per character for one encounter. Award more for a hard challenge, ingenuity in overcoming it, or its importance to the story.
• Long encounters. An encounter that takes longer because of its scale can give about 1 more point per extra hour of play, still within the limit of 3. Time spent reviewing rules, planning or on downtime logistics doesn’t count.

With about three encounters a session, characters earn 3 to 9 points a session from encounters, around 4.5 on average.

Aspirations

• Completing an aspiration gives the character 5 Aethyr Points, at most once every 5 days. Characters who share an aspiration each get the full 5 when they complete it together.
• Committing to a new aspiration gives 1 point, after an hour-long ritual. Switching an aspiration for another, by the same ritual, gives none.
• A character holds up to 3 aspirations at a time. One they’ve dropped can still be completed, but gives no points.

Expect roughly one aspiration completed per character every five sessions: about 1 point a session on average.

Player-Given Boon Points

At the end of each session, each player can give another player’s character an Aethyr Point for any reason they choose. The GM awards two Aethyr Points to two players’ characters. Characters average about 1.5 points a session from boons.

Pacing

A typical session gives each character 4 to 16 Aethyr Points, 6 on average: roughly 1 point per hour of play, plus aspirations and boons. At 6 points a session, characters reach each Aethyrflame Intensity level after about this many sessions:

Intensity level	Aethyr Points in total	Sessions, approximately
1	0	Start
2	20	3
3	40	7
4	70	12
5	100	17
6	140	23
7	180	30
8	220	37
9	260	43
10	310	52
11	360	60
12	410	68
13	460	77
14	520	87
15	580	97
16	650	108
17	720	120
18	800	133
19	890	148
20	1,000	167

These are averages: a party that completes aspirations quickly or plays long encounters will move faster.