I’m doing the final passes on my Forged in the Dark hack, Quietus. I’ve renamed and retooled a lot of the terms and mechanics to make them fit my theme of melancholy horror, but action rolls are still called action rolls, and that sounds a bit too… well, actiony. Does anyone have any ideas of an alternative name for them? Risk rolls maybe? Though it sounds a bit too close to getting Rickrolled.
What should I call action rolls in Quietus?
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I don’t know how the rest of the setting is oriented, but somehow I’m feeling like “Foolishly engage danger” sounds appropriate.
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Maybe just Stress Rolls?
And now I’ve got an Ohrwurm (as we Germans say): “Never gonna give you up! Never gonna let you down!” And I imagine my dice singing it to me… 
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Struggle roll, perhaps?
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Struggle Roll, or Tension Roll? something that signifies that it’s being caused by the sudden confrontation of a thing that is causing you trouble
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Confront rolls - that might sound to actiony, but you can be on the receiving end of being confronted with something as well as doing it actively
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Roll for Uncertainty. Fate rolls. Chance roll. Skill roll, Skill check.
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Crisis Roll? Peril Test? Hazard Roll? Composure Roll?
(Trophy uses Risk Rolls, thanks for putting the Rick Roll in my brain… now I want to do a glam 80’s incursion into Willy Wonka’s Wouse of Wonders or something.)
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I mean, they did a terrifying Wizard of Oz one, you could totally pull off a Wonka adventure…
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Confront your fear; face the horror; gather your wits; test your mettle . . .
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Are action rolls proactive or reactive?
If they are reactive, I like ‘Peril rolls’.
If they are active… I’m not sure 
‘Tension rolls’ perhaps?
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They’re active, always. Tension rolls is good but tension is used elsewhere. However this just made me realise it’s actually the only type of roll in the game, so I could just call them rolls.
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