[Torg] Possibility Spending

[Michael Jason Teegarden]

My own group uses this:  you cannot spend more than one possibility (for a reroll) on an action, unless you have a very specific and explicitly stated power allowing that (say, the Nile Empire world laws, Law of Drama).  You spend your possibility; the opponent spends its possibility to block.  That's it; there is no bidding or continuing.  You don't even get to roll the additional die unless your opponent does not block your additional possibility (since there's no real point to it).  

Michael Teegarden




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From: Steve Crow <crow_steve at hotmail.com>
To: torgmail <torg at justintimeadventures.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 8, 2008 6:37:38 PM
Subject: RE: [Torg] Possibility Spending

 > > The rules say you can spend a possibility. However, someone countering 
> > seems to keep you from spending a possibility.
> 
> You spend the possibility and then they counter it with one of
> their own, they are not stopping you from spending one. Basically
> you change reality with your P-Point and then they change it back
> with theirs, negating the change you tried to make.
> 
> -- 

I'm sorry, I should have clarified I was only speaking of examples where an opponent _can_ negate a possibility expenditure. Damage negation possibilities that can't be countered wouldn't be relevant to this question .

So... you can or can't keep spending possibilities on the same action if an opponent counters your first one, under the 1.5 rules?

Page 109 of the 1.5 rules makes it kind of seem like making the additional die roll is inherent in spending the possibility. No dice roll, no spending. Hence our question.

--- Steve Crow "Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority." Check out my website at:  http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Stargate/4991/



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