My problem is describing what happens when a similar situation happens with abilities. Say I have a highly dexterous, thief-type character in my game who has spent many sessions getting better at the 'dodge' skill. They go to augment their CC abilities with a +3 using dodge and roll high enough so that they end up with a -3 penalty (from a defeat). How are you folks describing what happens here? Do you say, "even though you are excellent at dodging you try so hard to dodge that you tire yourself out and dodge in a clumsy manner for the entire fight such that you will probably take more hits"? This doesn't seem very convincing.
I mean, I have no trouble describing, fumbles, reverse engineering extended contest results after the AP hits zero, and other such narration challenges, but how a character who is supposed to be excellent at something ends up being consistantly crappy at it for an entire contest due to the intent to use this skill makes no sense to me in most cases...
Does anyone have examples of how they describe this sort of situation?
A.K. Berner
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