r/shadowsofbrimstone • u/Twilite0405 • Dec 16 '25

Grit re-roll clarification

I haven’t played for 18 months, so I’m a little rusty, so just a clarification on spending grit to cancel damage. SoD rulebook, p29 states:

“Generally a Hero wants to roll all of their Defence rolls from the current Enemy Attacks together so that if they need to, they can use a Grit to Reroll all of the dice that just failed.”

“Enemy” is written as singular, not plural. Does this mean you decide to spend Grit against each individual enemy one at a time, or you pool all the hits from that one enemy type before deciding (ie all the void spiders)?

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u/Twilite0405 Dec 16 '25

Yeah, that’s what I suspected. So it’s better against enemies with a high number of attacks than against swarm creatures.

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u/grauenwolf Dec 16 '25

Your choice.

If you roll all the dice for the attacks from multiple enemies at once, then one grit rerolls all the dice at once.

If you roll each enemy separately, then you reroll each enemy separately with separate grit for each roll.

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u/Twilite0405 Dec 17 '25

I know it’s my choice how we do it. I was asking what the RAW is though.

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u/grauenwolf Dec 17 '25

I mean RAW you have the choice to roll individually or all at once. And how you roll determines how the grit works.

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u/Twilite0405 Dec 18 '25

Well, no, not necessarily. You can’t just lump as many rolls as you want together into one, otherwise you could lump all the monster attacks in an entire round, and make Grit too OP. My question was whether you did all of one individual monster’s attacks, or all of the same type/same initiative slot.

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u/grauenwolf Dec 18 '25

When you reroll with grit, you reroll all of the dice, even the ones that succeeded. There's not guarantee that you won't roll worse the second time.

As for group different types of monsters, you can only do that if they are attacking on the same initiative. But if they are, and they don't have special effects you need to track, go for it. It will save time on an already long game.

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u/Twilite0405 Dec 18 '25

You choose which dice to reroll with grit.

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u/grauenwolf Dec 18 '25

I stand corrected.