[Torg] Awards

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Kansas Jim <ksjim at sdc.org> wrote:

>> before the end of the Arc, it's time for legal intervention. Remember
>> that villains can counter Possibilities spent on roll-agains. So that
>> "automatic" Glory is no longer guaranteed. By limiting the number of
>
> Yes, I've had major villains on more than one occasion kill a Glory
> attempt by countering their P-Point and/or Hero/Drama cards.

I remember one session where it felt like the villian was saying
something like.. keep spending them boys. I can counter as many a
round as you spend them.


> And about half the time the group would use Master Plans and trades to
> recover the used Hero/Drama cards and try again the next round. :)

Or the guy who would masterplan the drama cards because well it was
almost end of adventure.

> [...]
>
>> In reality, I have never seen more than 3 Glory results in a single
>> adventure, and that one specifically said that if a certain result
>> took place, it counted as a Glory result regardless of the die rolls
>> or cards involved.
>
> I think I may have had three Glory results in a single adventure once
> or twice, but it involved a lot more card grinding than usual on the
> part of the players. Truthfully, even one Glory result tended to be an
> unusual occurrence with my groups, multiples were special events.

Glory results were so rare we argued one time if we could really use a
glory on finding a coin in an alley during a standard scene [I think
someone rolled a basic 72 on a find without spending and we had not
used a glory in weeks/months.]



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