Re: Tracking Multiple Actions within Extended Contests

From: Bryan <bethexton_at_...>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 21:01:35 -0000

>
>
> In my game, Bryan's PC just criticalled his attempt to Devote. I had
> some fun stuff lined up for a failure, which I suspect he would have
> liked, but I've shelved it. I hope I've thrown him a curve ball anyway,
> and I have something else lined up which is fun too. Still, I suspect he
> still wanted his character to succeed, though :)
>
Actually, I was a bit torn on it. I'd decided a little while ago that the character was going to start heading towards being a devotee, but I expected it would not be so soon--I'd been thinking sometime after he'd gotten the harvest in.

However we had a perfect situation in the game for the character to realize that he wanted to devote himself, so it seemed like a great opportunity to have something happen. Success or failure would each have been 'something happened.' Imagine if it failed--what if he thought he was ready to devote himself and apparently Yavor-Allfather did not? That could have led things in a whole other direction!

I think the last time in the game when I really wanted a certain result was when he wandered into Maran Gor's palace by hapstance, and I rather wanted him to manage to get out intact.

--Bryan