Re: A river runs by ...

From: Thom Baguley <t.s.baguley_at_...>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:41:09 +0000

> From: "Russell Hoyle" <hoyle_at_...>
>Subject: Concurrent contests
>
>In the rules book it suggests running a river crossing (for example) as a
>concurrent extended contest, with each hero engaging in an EC vs the river's
>resistance value.
>
>A couple of Questions:
>
>1. Do I just arbitrarily decide what the river's bid is, should it be fairly
>consistent between bids, and also between characters?

No. Yes. I'd work out the bids as starting low and increasing then decreasing for most rivers (depending on how it looked).

Two other alternatives are i) no bid for the river, ii) fixed bids for the river. Both can work.

>2. When a hero wins an exchange, and the river's AP are depleted, this
>applies ony to 'his personal battle' with the river, right? So it has no
>impact on the other heroes' contests? (Unless, I guess, some powerful magic
>or strategy to weaken the river occurs.)

Yes.

>3. When a character reaches the far side and wants to help a comrade, do we
>use the same AP total accumulated up to then, or is it a new contest and
>therefore are AP's replenished?

Just use the AP loaning rules (probably with present APs) and the unrelated action augment rules.

Thom