Re: Re: Changing contest goals

From: Tony Davis <gallows_brother_at_...>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 15:18:58 -0700 (PDT)

 

And if you're going to strike the pursuer, you have to let them catch you. I think that sets the AP back to zero.

t.

> --- In HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com, Light Castle
>
> <light_castle_at_s...> wrote:
> > I'm moving this to the rules list, since I think
> this now becomes
> a rule
> > question.
> >
> > No. I don't geddit.
>
> Hi LC
>
> That was intended as a humurous geddit, so I
> apologise if it sounded
> rude.
>
> LC continues:
> > You are a PC, your goal in an extended contest is
> to flee off the
> tula
> > without being caught and identified. You are
> losing the chase
> badly to a
> > fast runner/tracker type. You turn and decide to
> strike your
> pursuer
> > instead (you are a better fighter). Possibly you
> are attempting to
> knock
> > them out/back/away so that they can't pull off
> your mask, the
> goals here
> > haven't changed. OR you decide "I must now kill
> this man." In the
> > latter, should the other person still have all the
> AP the
> accumulated
> > from transfers at your expense during the chase?
> Isn't this a new
> > contest?
> >
> > LC
>
> In this situation I would then make a new contest
> sure. Basically
> the character has resigned from running away. Its
> not, IMO the same
> as the debate question. One is based upon
> interperatation of an
> interpersonal resolution, the other is the character
> stopped running
> in order to fight.
>
> Lets suppose that you were being run down, and you
> said that you
> would like to use Burst of Speed from your Movement
> Affinity. The
> fellow chasing also has a movement afinity, but is
> an initiate.
> Thus it becomes the pc's Burst of speed + a few
> augments, say 10M,
> vs the other guy, say 5M less 10, being
> unconcentrated. This gives
> the player character the edge by changing the focus
> of the contest.
>
> I guess its a judgement call. You are correct in
> saying that you
> cannot just choose ANY ability. You have to choose
> one that suits
> your goal.
>
> Imagine the running scene again. Your losing, down
> to your last
> AP. You have Frightening Bellow of 15M. You say, I
> am going to
> make a desperation bid of all your starting AP to
> try and frighten
> the chaser off. He happens to have a brave of 1M.
> If you succeed
> in winning the contest the other guy gives up/ is to
> frightened to
> continue. If you lose big time, 'perhaps mid shout
> you feel his
> javelin pierce your heart.......'
>
> All the best
> Rob
>
>
>
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