I tend to note the contests when writing episodes using the standard contest notation e.g.:
Escape Chains(19): Foil Restraints, Strong(-5)
which already implies that matching skills get no modifier and improvising skills get a negative modifier.
Why write:
Escape Chains(24): Foil Restraints(+5), Strong
its no clearer and the numbers are the same.
I don't see that anything needs to be added to the rules for this. Provision already exists for penalising 'non-mathcing' abilites. Maybe I am missing something ...
Ian Cooper
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