[Torg] Possibility Spending

[Travis James Hall]

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> From: torg-bounces at justintimeadventures.com 
> [mailto:torg-bounces at justintimeadventures.com] On Behalf Of 
> Benjamin Grant
> Sent: Monday, 10 November 2008 12:31 AM
> To: torg at justintimeadventures.com
> Subject: RE: [Torg] Possibility Spending
> 
> 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.

No. This is your addition to the rules. As per the rule I quoted, spending a
Possibility to counter has no effect whatsoever on the original expenditure
of a Possibility - not on whether it was spent, nor on what it was spent on.
Not unless you expect the rules to explicit state all the imaginable effects
which do not apply in any given situation.

I do not find your addition to be obvious, nor at all implied by the written
rules.

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

The rules do not state that the expenditure of a Possibility to counter
results in the first Possibility spent no longer having been spent on the
action.

> Having one's die roll cancelled results in the 
> possibility NOT being spent on any action.  

Then I'm sure you can find the rule that says that.

> We are only discussing what the
> text actually does say all on its own.

Fair enough. By that standard, please quote the rule that states that
spending a Possibility to counter results in the first Possibility spent (by
the acting character) has no longer been spent *on the original action*.

Travis Hall