Re: Re: Inversed Hero Points

From: David Dunham <david_at_...>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:57:42 -0700

On 14 Sep 2010, at 05:16, Tim wrote:

>> b. (second option) He wants to make it hard significant struggle and bumps up low resistance... Oops! Isn't it Nartrators job? OK, he bumps up resistance to very very high. And he fails. Does ability go up or not? I'm not sure. 

>
> Depends whether you are allowing bumps after the roll, or forcing them to be "blind" - If the player is chosing to bump once he knows the "base" result then they are making a definite choice to fail (or succeed less well) in return for the increase, rather than gambling.

FWIW, the rules say you bump after the roll. (I only point this out because I know some house rules are different.)

David Dunham
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