One of my favorite parts of the Resistance System (aka Spire the City Must Fall & Heart the City Beneath) is the concept of Domains.
Domains are basically areas of life that your character is comfortable with. They are very broad such as Criminal, Religion, or Commerce.
The rules set up that the Domains do not just suggest what your character can do, but who they know, areas they frequent, etc. In other words - devices outside of the character.
A character with Commerce will get the same bonus when performing a trade, when stabbing a merchant, and when fighting a ninja in a general store.
It reminds me a lot of the Skills in Feng Shui 2 (I never read 1st ed) and Backgrounds in 13th Age. Again, they are nebulous and reflect not just what the character can do, but what, where, and who they know.
When designing Roll 4 Saves, I have a strict maximum 3 bonuses to a roll goal, because that will be a d12.
My current goal is to have a super general bonus, a more specific bonus, and a super specific bonus.
Backgrounds fill that General Bonus. When writing the rules, I wanted backgrounds to focus on devices outside of the character (place, target, object), but during the playtest podcast, I realized that this actually really limits some backgrounds. So I am attempting to broaden them to also include specific actions as well. So Academic might have research or debate, Criminal might have Grift of Burgle.
I am still working out the details. But I am leaning to not actually specifying actions in the descriptions.
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