You're Just Making That Up More or Less Constantly

[jimhenley]

1. It occurs to me that I game a lot. Last week, the Tuesday group had the penultimate session of our Polaris campaign, while the Friday bunch finished our run of Unknown Armies. This week I don't game, but next week, on Tuesday we'll wrap Polaris; we'll make characters for a short (half-dozen-session) campaign of Qin: The Warring States on Friday

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[jimhenley]

Honestly, that is not made clear! (It is in Unknown Armies, among other games.) And a couple of the other examples cut against it. e.g. an example of "Normal" difficulty - TN 12 - is "uncover a useful but not secret fact." If you're Jane Average, a roll of 7 or higher on two dice will get you the "Yes, But - " version of success at that. If you roll an eleven, though, you'll know a new useful but not secret thing straightforwardly.

[immlass]

Have you seen this?

[jimhenley]

No, but!

I saw it alluded to on RPG.Net yesterday, before the website went up. I'll have to dig in after sleep.

[cochese]

I dunno. I'm still bitter about the WEG Star Wars game I played in 15+ years ago, where the GM made us roll to turn on our lightsabers. I can't decide if I felt better when I heard years later that it was actually a rule in the book.