Each player takes their highest ability and augments with all of their other abilities.
The Narrator establishes a resistance ability of "Everything that sucks in a Hero's life."
Simple Contest:
Complete Victory: Hero defeats all his enemies, ascends to God-like levels of power, and is remembered even after the Illiteracy Era.
Major Victory: Hero defeats all his enemies, is a great Heroquester, and is remembered until the Illiteracy Era.
Minor Victory: Hero defeats all his enemies and retires to be honored throughout his life.
Marginal Victory: Hero defeats most of his enemies and retires in comfort.
Tie: Hero defeats many enemies, but winds up on the Gloranthan version of "VH-1's Whatever Happened to...?" within ten years of his death.
Marginal defeat: Hero defeats some enemies, but winds up on the Gloranthan version of "VH-1's Whatever Happened to...?" within his own lifetime.
Minor defeat: Hero defeats a couple of enemies, but winds up in rehab due to addiction to prescription pain killers from his many wounds.
Major defeat: Who???
Complete Defeat: Hero winds up coaching a local kid's team, but is fired due to sexual indiscretions. Kiddie porn is then found on his PC. Finally, he is indicted for tax fraud. He ends his life as a televangelist.
Gerald
Alexander G M Smith wrote:
> I've been gorlicked. The Vulcan nerve pinch of superior argument by one
> of my gamers. Now I'm thinking that it makes sense to start a new
> extended
> contest when the action type changes too much. The trooper still has a
> final shot to win the old swearing contest (and shame the cavalry soldier
> into letting him pass). But after that, it's a new type of combat
> (weapons
> rather than words) so a new extended contest makes more sense.
>
> You could do a whole adventure as a single extended contest. Would that
> make sense? Only as a pure plot flow description, where AP decline
> marks the time to the end of the story. People don't do that, they use
> a bunch of contests in an adventure. So by induction, I should similarly
> split up an extended contest when the abilities used in the contest
> change too much.
>
> - Alex
>
> P.S. Now somebody's going to go off and run a whole adventure as an
> extended contest to prove me wrong :-)
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