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Title: Actions v non characters Post by: The Groog on September 19, 2007, 01:00:39 PM What does a character roll against to (for example) climb a wall, pick a lock, sneak passed a guard?
Title: Re: Actions v non characters Post by: The Groog on September 19, 2007, 11:50:53 PM "Sneak passed a guard" - Bad example, it would be abilities v abilities.
What I mean is, when a character attempts an action, which does not have another character in opposition, what would be used as the resisting factor? Thanks Title: Re: Actions v non characters Post by: Brennan Taylor on September 20, 2007, 03:18:36 AM You need to closely examine what the goal of the action is. If the goal is to get inside someone's house undetected, for example, there will be guards and security systems to defeat. To defeat an inanimate object, you are really contesting against the person who built or designed it. Assign a Faculty and Aptitude (security expert, for example) to the person who put the system together, and have the character contest against that. This goes for locks as well.
Title: Re: Actions v non characters Post by: The Groog on September 20, 2007, 09:25:39 AM I think it a bit unrealistic to say "Stonemason Adams built that wall, and he's an expert, so the difficulty would be higher than Jim's." But I see what you are saying.
Having said that, it could be used for certain instances. But either way, I think it would be relatively easy to create some kind of a Table of Target Numbers. Task Target Difficulty Number Very Easy 5 Easy 10 Average 15 Hard 20 Very Hard 25 Almost Impossible 30 Impossible 35 Or something. Character passions could still be used of course. If a loved one was held captive behind a 30' wall, then that wall would be less intimidating to the climber. Title: Re: Actions v non characters Post by: Brennan Taylor on September 21, 2007, 02:06:45 AM You could certainly do that, although the scale should be more like this:
Difficulty Target Very Easy 2 Easy 4 Average 6 Hard 10 Very Hard 15 Almost Impossible 20 Impossible 24 This accounts for the fact that the very best someone can normally do is 18 (5 faculty + 5 aptitude + 8 action tokens). Add in 5 for the highest passion you can get, and you reach 23. So, 24 actually is impossible unless you use power tokens. Title: Re: Actions v non characters Post by: The Groog on September 21, 2007, 10:15:53 AM Thank you Brennan, we'll use this in our games.
Let you know how it goes. |