[Torg] Skill Challenge

[Salvador A. Melo]

That's a very interesting sounding system, sort of a combination of the two.
Have you ever done something with multiple "challenges" going at the same
time? The dnd article on mass combats had in it's example three simultaneous
ones that the players could switch off between, one for commanding the
troops and keeping the morale up, one for helping with artillery fire, and
one for helping on the front line. Success or failure in each caused bonuses
or penalties to others, and success at two won the day.

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Kansas Jim <ksjim at sdc.org> wrote:

> Salvador A. Melo wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>  I realized, shortly after writing half of that, that we already have the
>> multi-step skill thingy from the drama deck (i forgot the actual name),
>> which could accomplish many of the same purposes, however, I feel the two
>> would do so differently enough to at least potentially warrant using both.
>> Also, the skill challenge might be easier if a group does not have a drama
>> deck.
>>
>
> As I was reading your description of D&D's Skill Challenge system the
> Dramatic Skill Resolution mechanics came to my mind too. A method I've
> used with the DSR which is somewhat like a Success/Failure mechanic
> is that I use the DSR steps as a random countdown mechanic.
>
> The PC needs to get N number of successes at some task before I flip
> over enough cards to complete the A-B-C-D steps. So it's a minimum of
> four rounds (a card with the right letter on it will only increase
> by one step, even if it has the next step on it as well) but the maximum
> number of rounds they have is unknown even to me. The complications of
> the DSR work mostly the same, Complication and Critical Problem are
> unchanged (the restart for a Critical Problem resets their success
> total to zero) while Possible Setback instead of setting them back one
> step subtracts one from their cumulative successes.
>
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