Re: [DL] A few rules questions

["William Ogden" <w_ogden@hotmail.com>]

1 - yep, they not only fail, they fail badly.  I like your pyrric victory 
idea, that's a good inventive way of doing it.
2 - yes, but not all skills can be "linked" that way.  I mean, if you have 
shootin(shotguns), you can spend 3 bounty to "add" pistols to that, but with 
science, professoin, and trade, they all have to remain separate skills.
3 - Don't know officially, but i'd say shootin(automatics) for personal 
wpns, and artillery(gatlin guns) for crew-served wpns, like what would be 
mounted on a tripod on a vehicle.

>From: Vang <kao@hamilton.net>
>Reply-To: deadlands@gamerz.net
>To: deadlands@gamerz.net
>Subject: [DL] A few rules questions
>Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:04:50 -0600
>
>Hello, I've got a few questions about the Deadlands Rules. I've been
>playing for the last several months yet I am still unclear on a few
>things that I can't seem to find elsewhere:
>
>	My group has come up with a situation several times now where a player
>will roll a majority of 1's yet still make his Trait or Skill check with
>at least one die, sometimes due to getting an Ace.  Does the player
>still fail the roll?
>
>One thing I have come up with is to have the trait or skill check turn
>out in a way that leaves the player in a situation that is somewhat
>pyrrhic.  For example, a cowpoke crossing the desert uses his Survival:
>Desert aptitude in an attempt to find food when he runs low.  While he
>makes his Target Number exactly, he still comes up with a majority of
>1's.  So the cowpoke is able to find food, but it is of such a type that
>is so salty that it causes him to require extra water the next day.
>
>	If a player raises an aptitude with concentrations, does that mean
>each concentration is raised to the new aptitude level?  I can
>understand how this would work with Shootin' Concentrations as they are
>very similar to each other (Point at whatever is bothering you, pull
>trigger, & repeat as necessary) but how would this work for
>concentrations that are not similar such as Science: Biology and
>Science: Physics?  I really can't see Stephen Hawking someday deciding
>to become as talented a biologist as he is a physicist.  I have an idea
>on how to reflect this; have the cost to buy a new related concentration
>be three bounty points and the cost to buy an unrelated concentration be
>five (or more) bounty points.
>
>         My third question is about the Artillery: Gatling Guns and
>Shootin': Automatics aptitudes.  Does a character need both skills to
>fire a Gatling Gun or can he make do with just the Shootin' Automatics
>skill?
>Are there penalties for not having the Artillery: Gatling Guns skill and
>if so, what would they be?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Keith "Vang" Oberschulte
>
>"There is no task so simple that an actor in an infomercial can't make
>look impossible"
>
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