Endurance

Endurance is how many rooms the Ranger can take on in one outing. It is a pacing rule for play, not movement stamina and not a claim about how tired a cell gets.

How it works#

• You leave home with 6.
• Each room you clear costs 1. A failed attempt you retry costs 1 more. A calm room costs nothing.
• Ending a room Overwhelmed costs 1 more. That extra takes only what is left, so a cleared room is never refused afterwards.
• At 0 you cannot start another room, but you can always walk out with everything you banked: "Too worn out to take on another room. Head home; nothing you banked is lost."
• Home restores it fully. The Rest at the Apothecary restores +2, never above 4, once an outing, so a long outing still ends at home.
• Signal tuning at level 2 or 3 starts the outing at 5.
• Hearth boards cost no endurance.

Numbers#

Claude B's MODEL (real rules): one +2 rest between two 3-room branches lets 99% of typical players finish the outing, 84% of struggling players and 48% of rough players. Without it: 74%, 37% and 11%.

Development#

• 31 Oct: the user set the outing endurance rule and the rest-stop limits. Rest then happened at Starwell and the Quiet District Depot.
• 1 Nov: the user moved rest to the Apothecary. The endurance display stays with you beyond Hearth.
• In the alpha: a room attempt reserves its endurance before the room opens, and a reload never refunds it.

See also#

Rest · Signal tuning · Composure · Economy

Sources#

1. b89f778c2:src/main-game/alpha/public/encounter/src/services/rest.jscopy
2. 215bfbf88:docs/game-balance/31-turn-based-encounters.mdcopy
3. 215bfbf88:docs/game-balance/28-recruits-rest-stops-economy.mdcopy