[Trollbabe] Injuries, and Error in text 2? :)

[Darren Hill]

On page 20:

An injured character ignores the “discommoded" step and proceeds to further injury right away on a failed roll; therefore she is limited to a total of two re-rolls instead of three. Multiple injuries continue this process, such that a doubly-injured character proceeds directly to incapacitation with a failed roll, and a triply-injured one proceeds all the way to the end of the series.

My first question - how does one become triply injured?
After being doubly injured, you go straight to incapacitated - but while incapacitated you can't get involved in a new Series.

My main question: when performing Action by Action or Exchange by Exchange, does a discommode carry over from series to series.
Say, on the first series, I fail but choose not to take a reroll. I am discommoded.
Then on the second series, I fail - is this a discommode or an injury? I think it's another discommode, but I want to be sure.

[Bob McNamee]

Its a discommode.

I was originally making the mistake of counting it  as going to Injury during my first game. As a result I couldn't see why anybody wouldn't Reroll.

After, the Discommode explaination was given (discommode fail...goes to discommode on next series, not injury) it made sense why you would stop at first fail.

[Ron Edwards]

Hi Darren,

Here are the older threads to check out:
Trollbabe questions & comments
Some Trollbabe questions
Trollbabe injury
Trollbabes and social injury

My main question: when performing Action by Action or Exchange by Exchange, does a discommode carry over from series to series.

It does, if we're talking about a string of series in a single conflict (i.e. Pace is either exchange-by-exchange or blow-by-blow, but not whole-conflict). Discommodes do not carry over from conflict to conflict of any kind, though.

Best,
Ron

P.S. My friend Tod just told me that "discommode" makes him think of a toilet with little reflective mirrors all over it, suspended above a dance floor, spinning about ...

[Darren Hill]

Hi Darren,

My main question: when performing Action by Action or Exchange by Exchange, does a discommode carry over from series to series.

It does, if we're talking about a string of series in a single conflict (i.e. Pace is either exchange-by-exchange or blow-by-blow, but not whole-conflict). Discommodes do not carry over from conflict to conflict of any kind, though.

Just to make sure we're on the same page, can you clarify the following:
Say, I'm doing an Action By Action Fighting conflict (win 3 out of 5).
Which of the following is accurate:
A)
In the first action I fail, so I'm discommoded. I choose not to reroll.
In the second action I fail again - so I'm discommoded.
B)
In the first action I fail, so I'm discommoded. I choose not to reroll.
In the second action I fail again - so I'm Injured.

Which of the these is right:
A)
In the first action I fail, so I'm discommoded. I reroll, and fail again. I'm injured now.
In the second action I fail again - so I'm doubly injured.
B)
In the first action I fail, so I'm discommoded. I reroll, and fail again. I'm injured now.
In the second action I fail again - so I'm incapacitated.

I think now the correct answer is B to both, but I had thought it was A. If B is correct, you could easily refer to the whole sequence of rolls in a Conflict as a single Series, since even if you do Action By Action, you technically only have a total of 3 rerolls available.

P.S. My friend Tod just told me that "discommode" makes him think of a toilet with little reflective mirrors all over it, suspended above a dance floor, spinning about ...

My first thought upon seeing the term was similar: "dis commode? no, dat commode."
PS thanks for the links.

[rafial]

Just to make sure we're on the same page, can you clarify the following:
Say, I'm doing an Action By Action Fighting conflict (win 3 out of 5).
Which of the following is accurate:
A)
In the first action I fail, so I'm discommoded. I choose not to reroll.
In the second action I fail again - so I'm discommoded.
B)
In the first action I fail, so I'm discommoded. I choose not to reroll.
In the second action I fail again - so I'm Injured.

Which of the these is right:
A)
In the first action I fail, so I'm discommoded. I reroll, and fail again. I'm injured now.
In the second action I fail again - so I'm doubly injured.
B)
In the first action I fail, so I'm discommoded. I reroll, and fail again. I'm injured now.
In the second action I fail again - so I'm incapacitated.

By my understanding, it is A in both cases.

In the first case:

Series 1) You roll, fail, and accept the failure.  You describe your discommode.
Series 2) While the change in circumstances brought about by your discommode still stands, this has no mechanical effect, so you begin this new series at the top of the chart.  Roll, fail, accept, describe being further discommoded.

You can be discommoded till the hairy scottish cows come home, and it has no cumulative mechanical effect on your character, just a narrative one.

In the second case:

Series 1.1) Roll, fail, describe being discommoded, decided to continue the series
Series 1.2) Roll, fail, accept.  describe being injured.
Series 2) The mechanical effect of injury is that you begin this series at the top of the second box in the diagram.  So, roll, fail, injured (again!).

If you chose to accept that failure and begin a third series, you'd start that third series from the top of the third box in the diagram, on account of being doubly injured.

While being tripley injured is mentioned on page 20, nobody has ever (to my knowledge) put together a scenario of how that could actually happen.

[Bob McNamee]

Rafial...that looks like what I understand the Injury rules to be... but probably didn't state well.

[Darren Hill]

By my understanding, it is A in both cases.

In the first case:

Series 1) You roll, fail, and accept the failure.  You describe your discommode.
Series 2) While the change in circumstances brought about by your discommode still stands, this has no mechanical effect, so you begin this new series at the top of the chart.  Roll, fail, accept, describe being further discommoded.

You can be discommoded till the hairy scottish cows come home, and it has no cumulative mechanical effect on your character, just a narrative one.

this was what I had suspected, but Ron's comment made me wonder.

My main question: when performing Action by Action or Exchange by Exchange, does a discommode carry over from series to series.

It does, if we're talking about a string of series in a single conflict (i.e. Pace is either exchange-by-exchange or blow-by-blow, but not whole-conflict). Discommodes do not carry over from conflict to conflict of any kind, though.

Can you clarify, Ron?

While being tripley injured is mentioned on page 20, nobody has ever (to my knowledge) put together a scenario of how that could actually happen.

thats a relief. :)

[Darren Hill]

Rafial...that looks like what I understand the Injury rules to be... but probably didn't state well.

No, you stated it well, but then Ron contradicted you - or so it appeared to my quite possibly addled mind.

Darren