One roll. Seven Scales. From a rooftop to an orbit.

Ascent Core is a complete superhero engine with one resolution mechanic and no second subsystem waiting at the top of the power curve. You roll a pool of d10 and count 7s. That never changes. What changes is Scale — a single number from 0 to 6 that every character, vehicle, weapon and threat carries. A gap of two means no roll at all: the stronger side simply succeeds. So the dice only ever come out between near-peers, and a seven-dice pool is exactly as tense at Scale 5 as it was at Scale 1. Only the nouns change. Scale is never bought with XP. You gain it by Breaking — filling your entire Strain track to act two Scales above yourself, then surviving what that costs you. Three of those and you ascend permanently, on-screen, in front of everyone. The city ascends with you, one arc late. Clone this project and put your own masks in it.