Sudden confusion regarding Tagging aspects.

[Ghsdkgb]

Okay, I had originally read something somewhere in the books that led me to the conclusion that invoking an Aspect could give the player a +2 to a roll (or some other bonuses that aren't really important at the moment), but Tagging a temporary Aspect gave a +1.

Tonight, during a session, one of my players argued this point and directed me towards page 106 of Your Story, where Harry tags for a +2. This resulted in two other group members, who had originally thought as I did, to suddenly agree with him. So I let it go and ran with it, but now, I'm completely unable to recall where I read the +1 or even find it again.

Here I thought I had this Aspect stuff figured out and now there's this curveball flipping things upside-down on me. Can someone set me straight so I don't make this mistake again?

Thanks!

[Sanctaphrax]

I'm pretty sure that tagging gives +2.

Spending a fate point without an aspect to invoke gives +1. Maybe that's where you got this idea.

[EldritchFire]

A 'tag' is nothing more than a free invoke. And, as we all know, invoking an aspect is a +2. Therefore, tags are worth +2 as well.

Long way of saying that your players are right.

-EF

[Richard_Chilton]

You may be confusing it with FATE chips.  A FATE chip can be spent to tag an aspect for +2 or, if you lack an applicable aspect, spent to add +1 to the roll.  Or a re-roll

Spending FATE chips for aspects is usually the best way of using them, but if you really need that +1 then just spend the point... And if you roll ---- then a re-roll is nice - there's only a 1 in 81 that a re-roll won't improve your situation.

Richard

[noclue]

Huh. I totally forgot about that +1 rule (YS19 btw)."Probably because I don't much care for it.

[sinker]

You may be confusing it with FATE chips.  A FATE chip can be spent to tag an aspect for +2 or, if you lack an applicable aspect, spent to add +1 to the roll.  Or a re-roll

Actually the re-roll is one of the functions of the invocation of an aspect. If you don't have an appropriate aspect then the best you can expect from your fate point is a +1 bonus (or better than that would be to use that fate point to make a declaration and then tag that).