On September 23, 2007 12:11 pm, Ian Young wrote:
>
> I believe there's really a very good reason for not nesting extended
> contests: the bookkeeping quagmire. This gets back to our original
> question, after a fashion: How do you shift goals during a conflict
> without creating nested extended contests? To be honest, this isn't a
> problem I've had to deal with in a game, and I don't have a clear
> answer on it, either.
Exactly. That's always been an issue for me. How much does a goal shift result
in the end of the original contest, a nesting of a contest, or something
else?
That's not even getting into the "a move you can only do once in a contest"
issue.
- For instance, my goal is to lure my opponent into a trap. I get them there,
then spring the trap. IF I fail, the trap is gone.
Now, presumably in order to spring the trap I bid all my AP. The problem is
that I can fail but still have AP, or that I can succeed (thus presumably
setting the trap off) but not have reduced my opponent to zero.
LC