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Re: Grapple Houserule/possible clarification
« Reply #105 on: March 23, 2012, 08:03:12 PM »
Even that's...odd since the goal still isn't to take you out. My bet would still be on the maneuver to effect a third party.

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Re: Grapple Houserule/possible clarification
« Reply #106 on: March 23, 2012, 08:06:41 PM »
Or maybe some kind of reverse crafting/consequential contest roll. You want to create a Moderate consequence, and have to roll a certain difficulty to shoot the person exactly right so that it looks convincing, but a failed roll botches it into a Severe or worse consequence?

Though it would just be weird that a lower Guns roll might result in a higher level of consequence.
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Re: Grapple Houserule/possible clarification
« Reply #107 on: March 23, 2012, 08:10:13 PM »
Lately I've been thinking of consequences more as narrative armor, so in that case I think the maneuver is more appropriate. Making someone significantly reduce their effectiveness for a little believability is a little more than I would usually require. Though I guess in some circumstances I might call for a consequence instead (like if it needed to be a gunshot wound instead of a black eye).

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Re: Grapple Houserule/possible clarification
« Reply #108 on: March 23, 2012, 08:35:25 PM »
Yeah, it would depend on the situation, but that's splitting hairs, really. A consequential contest is still kinda a maneuver inasmuch as it creates a temporary aspect on the target, just a more, um, extreme one.

Most situations I can think of where you're trying to get hit (or at least not avoiding it) tend to be while you're trying to do something else--convincing someone you resisted, blocking someone else from being hit, that sort of thing, which you would probably be better off modeling as a roll to attempt that thing, with getting hit as a separate consequence.
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