Re: Enhancement/augmentation

From: Tim Ellis <tim_at_...>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 12:34:55 -0000

I was thinking much the same myself, but hadn't actually looked at the probablities to back up my gut feeling.

We had a discussion on Saturday about the +1 Enchancement/+2 Edge, but decided it probably did balance out, since the Edge only affects your active use of the skill, whereas the enchancement adds to your AP and affects all rolls

What I am still not completely clear on is using an enhancement just to boost your AP's. I think this is what is meant for those characters (Like Cutrid the Black) who "Enhance with strength without taking an action" - Do you treat this as an "Automatic" bonus - no roll required, or do you treat it as the appropriate ability/affinity "Lending" AP's to the main ability being used (with the attendant possibility of reducing the ap's rather than boosting them)

So for example a warrior with close combat 17 and Strong 13 could use his strong in one of three ways

Enhancement - Increase his chance of landing a telling blow - roll vs 5 for effective skill 18, 18 APs , vs 10 for 19 & 19 AP's etc

Edge - Increase the effectiveness of the blows that connect - assuming a 'standard' bid of 3 the player must roll vs 5 to have an "effective" bid of 5, vs 10 for an "effective" bid of 7 etc.

Boost AP's - Start the contest with 30 AP's, skill still 17.

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