I tried your method when you first posted it on the list a while back. It gave simple contests a more extended feel and gave the players a fair number of options they hadn't had before (i.e. being able to tune their margin of failure or victory a bit better).
The problem I had with it was when every conflict ended up as a major event. This is itself isn't a bad thing (if it's not major, don't make it a conflict) but the handling time was a bit too much for me. It would take some change in playing style to use consistently, but I'll give it a try again.
Thanks,
Ash
> Ashley has been:
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> ...getting a bit hacked off with augments
> recently. They're too damned fiddly. You've got the
> never-ending arithmetic as the players narrate what
> they do, adds all the bits up and come up with a
> number.
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> I agree with his complaint.
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> My solution was (for simple contests) to just roll
> the contest without
> augments, then allow a rolled augment after the
> contest if it would change the
> result. ie TN 15, vs 10, roll 16 and 7 respectively
> (fail vs sucess). Our TN 15
> could go for a rolled augment to get +1 (changing
> result to success vs success).
> TN10 could try to get a +20 to achieve a bump up to
> a critical vs success.
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> The negative effects of failed rolls are applied in
> some relevant way to the
> character, but not negatively affecting the contest.
> The player does not add
> augments, just picks the highest.
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> The idea is to limit the number of augments, because
> although you can roll
> lots of augments, but there is a risk of negative
> side effects, and once you've
> got a good result you're unlikely to improve it.
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> The effect is similar to what Ashley is suggesting -
> less minor accretions of
> minimal augments, with no clear guide as to what
> actually helped you
> succeed,, but potentially big results. For extended
> contests, you need to use an
> action to roll for an augment - but again, you only
> keep the highest result
> (negative results can be applied to other abilities
> or other contests).
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> I recommend trying this approach.
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> Keith
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