Re: [BNW] Opposed Rolls/Delta Point ?

[Kirk Monsen <munchwolf@yahoo.com>]

--- Steve Crow <crow_steve@hotmail.com> wrote:
> This seems to be one of those questions that never
> gets answered in the 
> rules of most games that give you ways to modify die
> rolls and ways to pit 
> die roll vs. opponent's die roll.
> 
> If you are making an opposed roll and both of you
> have Delta Points, when do 
> you have to declare you are doing so and/or when do
> you have to stop?
> 
> In other words, if I spend a Delta Point, does my
> opponent have to declare a 
> DP expenditure of his own before or after I roll
> (and once he sees the total 
> of) the extra dice?
> 
> And if your opponent responds by spending DPs, can
> you then spend more of 
> your own DPs?  And if so, do you declare before or
> after he makes the extra 
> die rolls?
> 
> Again, there doesn't seem to be anything in the
> accumulated rulings...

Well as I recall, Delta points are spent after the die
roll and added (unlike other die rolls) to the highest
total.  I would say that both players roll, calculate
the results along the way, and when both players agree
they won't spend more points then the results stay.

Easiest way to do it.  Have the higher player state
whether he's going to spend any points or not.  Then
the next player spends points or not.  Keep
alternating until both players agree not to spend
points and are both happy (or at least conceed that
spending points would be a futile gesture) with the
results.

Now note I mention players.  Unlike deadlands which
gives the Marshall chips to throw at the players (and
I wing em real good), BNW doesn't mention the Guide,
nor his NPCs as having Delta Points.  They only seem
to be for players, and represent the hand of fate, so
if your players are having opposed rolls against each
other ... well, you could follow an old rule that fate
doesn't aid interparty conflicts, and not allow the
spending of delta points for such acts.

As always, it's your game.

-Munch Wolf
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