Combat
Focus is the resource you spend to use your deeds and other special features. When you use a feature or deed with a focus cost, you must pay the cost up front. The focus cost is listed in at the start of its description, before a vertical bar.
If a cost has a plus sign next to it, that means it's a rising focus cost. After using that ability, put a checkmark next to it. The next time you use it, it costs one point more of focus for each checkmark next to it. All great and mythic deeds have a rising focus cost, which are tracked in the top right of their boxes on the character record.
Great deeds cost 2+ focus.
Mythic deeds costs 4+ focus.
Your checkmarks linger beyond the encounter and can only be cleared when you take a rest.
When you take a moment's rest, erase the checkmarks of one feature with rising focus cost.
When you take a night's rest, erase all checkmarks.
At the beginning of the first round of each encounter, you gain focus equal to your glory + Wits, as long as you've had a minute or two to catch your breath since the last fight. It is possible to gain focus during combat, but you do not carry excess between battles.
At the end of each of your turns in an encounter, you gain focus equal to 1d3 + Wits, provided you didn't attempt a great deed, which costs focus.
If you roll a failure againt all targets of a focus-costing deed, you regain half of the spent focus immediately.
Even though you don't have any focus outside of encounters, you can still use your focus-costing abilities once. When you gain Glory or finish a day's rest, you can use it again in this manner.
If the ability has a rising focus cost, it gains another checkmark even though you didn't pay any focus for it.