[UA] Crunchy Bits

Royal Minister of Stuff yokeltania at yahoo.com
Sat May 19 12:17:21 PDT 2001


I think you're right, there.  Okay, then. No, I
wouldn't let you have this one in my game.  Now, if
you were some sort of Avatar; the Guy That's Always
Good in a Crunch, then, yeah, this would work just
fine.

--- Cassady Toles <Con_Job at excite.com> wrote:
> 
> I couldn't imagine good in a crunch as an obsession
> skill anyway.  What kind
> of guy lies awake at night thinking about kinds of
> stress he could have and
> how he could deal with them.  To me that's always
> been the defining trait of
> an obsession skill.  Sufficiently abastract skills,
> I don't think work for
> that purpose.  Good in a Crunch is sufficiently
> abstract...
  
> 
> It should have been that they can flip-flop any
> result automatically
> (without a die roll) if the flip-flopped number came
> out under their good in
> a crunch skill).  I didn't want to add another die
> roll because I feel it
> would ruin the elegance of UA one die roll for all
> issues.
> 

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-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
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