[Torg] Possibility Spending

[Benjamin Grant]

PS - the possibility was spent - not arguing that point - it just wasn't
spent on an action, as required for the limit to be invoked.

-Benn Grant
eFix Computer Consulting
benn at 4eFix.com
603.283.6601


>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: torg-bounces at justintimeadventures.com [mailto:torg-
>>bounces at justintimeadventures.com] On Behalf Of Benjamin Grant
>>Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 8:47 PM
>>To: torg at justintimeadventures.com
>>Subject: RE: [Torg] Possibility Spending
>>
>>"No more than one possibility can be spent on any one action" is the
>>only
>>sentence that I have found (so far) in the 1.0 rules that address how
>>many
>>possibilities you can spend.  If the die roll is cancelled, it seems
>>pretty
>>obvious that possibility was not in fact spent on *any* action - and
>>until
>>one is able to spend a possibility on an action, one does not run afoul
>>of
>>the limit.
>>
>>I believe the language in 1.5 may have been altered to change that.
>>
>>-Benn Grant
>>eFix Computer Consulting
>>benn at 4eFix.com
>>603.283.6601
>>
>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: torg-bounces at justintimeadventures.com [mailto:torg-
>>>>bounces at justintimeadventures.com] On Behalf Of Kansas Jim
>>>>Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 8:42 PM
>>>>To: torg at justintimeadventures.com
>>>>Subject: Re: [Torg] Possibility Spending
>>>>
>>>>Benjamin Grant wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I do of course agree about house rules - to me a role-playing game
>>as
>>>>> written is unfinished because it hasn't been modified for the
>>>>specific
>>>>> uses of a particular gaming group.  However, going back over my 1.0
>>>>> rules on countering possibilities, it appears that no house rule is
>>>>> required.
>>>>
>>>>Really? Because I find nothing in the original rulebook to suggest
>>>>that you can keep spending P-Points. Page 14 of the original rulebook
>>>>says exactly the same thing as p109-110 of the R&E (because I pretty
>>>>much copied it directly!)
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Kansas Jim, Torg guru (ksjim (at) sdc (dot) org)
>>>>Torg website: http://www.sdc.org/~ksjim/index.html
>>>>
>>>>
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