RE: Re: Augmenting to Augment?

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From: Mike Holmes <homeydont_at_...>
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 11:54:15 -0600

>From: "Mark Galeotti" <mark_at_...>
>
>Hi Scott,
>
>Just to cut in here, the rules state (p80) that if you augment
>someone else "you suffer the normal consequences of defeat in a
>group contest" if your side loses. So actually augments aren't
>the 'freebie' minimax option you suggest.

Aaargh. OK, so I was wrong after all that. :-)

Good to be humbled often.

Knowing that, I am going to "tweak" slightly to keep my option, and say that it's GM fiat as to who gets hit by the consequences. Again, so I can have my cheerleaders and such. I might also consider giving different penalties to different characters. That could work, too. The warrior gets a broken leg, and the cheerleader suffers a penalty to cheering him on in the future or something.

That could work.

>More broadly, though, NO rules system cannot be broken or abused, if
>the players (or GM) are that desperate to break or abuse them.

Amen. That's key.

Mike