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Old 01-29-2008, 07:12 PM
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Re: [RPG]: Seven Leagues, reviewed by Mechante_Anemone (4/4)

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Originally Posted by Wyvern76 View Post
The task difficulty seems rather high from your descriptions. In the absence of circumstantial modifiers or narration bonuses, a character with a Virtue of 7, the highest possible, needs a 6 or better to succeed -- in other words, he'll fail almost half the time at average tasks. A character with an average Virtue of 4 will fail two-thirds of the time at average tasks, and almost half the time at even the simplest tasks (with a circumstantial modifier of +3).

I gather from your Actual Play report that narration bonuses are meant to be given out routinely, but even then it still seems like the odds would be against you most of the time unless you have a Virtue of 6 or 7. Is there something I'm missing?

Wyvern
Yes. Most actions are simply accepted as so, by fiat. A modifier of 0 is for a difficult (i.e., uncertain) task.
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