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the swamp provides => AW:Dark Age => Topic started by: Bret on March 03, 2014, 02:47:07 PM
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"When you use something on your character sheet, mark it for experience. When you mark the 7th, improve and erase your marks."
This seems kind of vague (when exactly am I using something?) and also a bit fussy, like I'll be marking 3 or 4 things all at once.
For Oaths in particularly, is "using" it when you follow it, or when someone else determines you've followed it at the session's end?
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Examples of vagueness from the Dragon Herald playbook, with possible "use":
- Dragon's Blood: when you would have been harmed by fire?
- Inviolate / Armor: when your armor reduces harm?
- Otherworldly: whenever you roll Weird?
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Thanks, Bret!
Most of the things you mark, you roll for, or use mechanically in some way, so it'll be clear when you've used them. Sometimes, yes, you'll mark a few things at once.
For oaths, you mark them at the end of the session.
Blinks: exactly right.
-Vincent
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Under what circumstances would you check a notable follower?
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This is an extremely fair question.
-Vincent
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Related question:
What about moves that replace moves?
For example the Troll Killer's Fearless move: when you draw a monster out, roll Cool instead of rolling Hot. Would you only mark XP for Fearless? Or would you mark XP for Fearless AND Draw someone out?
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Mark both.
I may decide to take the XP checkboxes away from notable followers, stat substitution moves, and some other things, but I'll need to play a bunch myself and watch what happens before I decide. For this document, everything got one.
-Vincent
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I may decide to take the XP checkboxes away from notable followers, stat substitution moves, and some other things, but I'll need to play a bunch myself and watch what happens before I decide. For this document, everything got one.
FWIW I like the checkboxes on the followers, it encourages the players to (re-)incorporate them into the fiction.
rgds
rob