Re: [DL] Goin' Bust

["Michael Maguire" <mikejmaguire@hotmail.com>]

It's possible that the person in question was me - I had *tried* to post to 
the list with the suggestion of, in situations where it was appropriate, to 
allow a player who goes bust but still achieves success on his other dice to 
succeed but still suffer the consequences of goin' bust.  I am not certain 
if the post ever made it one though (there've been a few problems with my 
outgoing mail this past week).

The example I had mentioned was that if the character were, say, trying to 
collapse a bridge to prevent pursuit and went bust, but had at least one 
really good roll in the mix, the Marshal would allow him to collapse the 
bridge, but perhaps get caught under the collapsing timbers.

It would be up to the Marshal to decide when (or if) to do something like 
this, but as someone else mentioned it can be very frustrating to have a 
really good roll stolen by a stack of 1's.  I would tend to favor the idea 
of "ok, you succeeded in spite of going bust...  HOWEVER...  <insert painful 
consequences here>".

Presumably going bust with none of the dice meeting or beating the TN would 
be a lot worse, of course.  Degrees of failure and all that.

Mac








----Original Message Follows----
From: Sitting Duck <sittingduck_1313@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: deadlands@gamerz.net
To: deadlands@gamerz.net
Subject: Re: [DL] Goin' Bust
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 06:03:46 -0800 (PST)


As an additional to what the others have been saying,
I recall someone once suggesting that for such cases,
one could consider the result to be a sort of pyrric
(sp?) victory. Would that person please stand up and
give the specifics?

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