Each contestant would have to maintain their own score against the course, but if the course gets to 5 points first then obviously they've piled into a rocky outcropping in an enormous fireball.
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 7:04 PM, L C <lightcastle_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm still a bit confused, you are proposing a contest where they both roll
> against the course's resistance, otherwise racing to 5?
>
> So stage 1 is something like "narrow channel of spinning rocks" 4W and they
> both roll against that. Victory gives you the normal number of points and
> loss gives you no points? (Or floating situational modifiers for the next
> roll?) Final victory determined by first to 5 and Margin of success
> determined by Victor-Loser range as normal?
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> Sort of an "everyone vs the course" thing?
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> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Undead Trout <undead.trout_at_...>
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> > They are still in the contest against one another, the course doesn't
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> > points toward victory unless you want that to represent the chance that
> one
> > or both is unable to finish the race or (on a Complete Defeat) dies in a
> > fiery crash. All the course does is provide the opposition rolls and the
> > chance for players to come up with clever augments to help them through
> the
> > tough parts. You could even have Kris and Lilly roll against one another,
> > and model the course as places in which the player may choose to roll for
> > augments a la *HeroQuest 1e*, trading a risk for a potential big pay-off.
> >
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