[HQ Ignorance] Scene 57: The Graveyard Shift (and new player, Damien)

[Nic Hughes]

Lev Lafayette wrote:
> 1 Hero Point will mean that your rites to Gargarth are
> answered which will give you an augment of +2 to
> resist the mental effects of the transformation.
>
> That'll boost your untrained ability (at 6) to 8,
> which means a success (roll of 7). Talor's Curse
> however has 2 masteries and a success (roll of 2).
> That'll increase the Curse's success to a critical and
> knock your success down to a failure.
>
> You would need to spend one addition Hero Point to
> increase your failure back to a success, another Hero
> Point to increase that success to a critical and a
> third Hero Point to knock that Curse's critical down
> to a simple success.
>
> That would give a marginal victory overall; for a cost
> of 4 Hero Points - or 5 Hero Points if you want to
> open the ability "Strong Willed" at 13 rather than
> have it at 6.
>
> By my reckoning you have 8 Hero Points at the moment
> (3 from the start of play plus 5 awarded on January
> 31st).
>
> Does all that make sense?
>
>   

Just a game mechanical observation - it hardly ever makes sense to spend 
HP on making an augment work and those rites are currently just an 
augment. It is almost always better to spend the HP on the contest 
itself and in this case I'm not sure the +2 is making nearly enough 
difference to justify a HP. With +10 from the drugs the original roll is 
a success so its all the masteries on the curse you need to worry about.

Personally I'd think a marginal failure might be the most interesting to 
role-play ;-)

Nic


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