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<blockquote data-quote="Old Fezziwig" data-source="post: 9280116" data-attributes="member: 59">Burning Wheel is my favorite RPG of all time, hands down.&nbsp; I don't have much to add that hasn't already been said, but, in reading through the other posts, the suggestion that the game needs partial success rules is a little confusing to me.&nbsp; The base rules in the Spokes discourage simple failures in favor of the introduction of complications.&nbsp; If a player succeeds at a test, her character achieves her intent in the manner described, regardless of margin of success — if the intent and task are, to use the book's example, picking the lock before the guards arrive, the character picks the lock before the guards arrive.&nbsp; If a player fails a test, her character fails to achieve her intent but may complete the task — the character picks the lock as the guards arrive.&nbsp; Other results could be used, too, depending on how we wanted to parse things or what the broader situation is.&nbsp; For instance, maybe the character picks the lock slightly ahead of the guards, but the guards get a look at her face, so they know who's picked the lock.&nbsp; These would both be partial successes and are implementable in the rules as written.&nbsp; Is it more that these read as partial failures rather than partial successes or is there something else going on here?&nbsp; For folks looking for partial success rules, what would that look like?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Old Fezziwig, post: 9280116, member: 59"] [I]Burning Wheel[/I] is my favorite RPG of all time, hands down. I don't have much to add that hasn't already been said, but, in reading through the other posts, the suggestion that the game needs partial success rules is a little confusing to me. The base rules in the Spokes discourage simple failures in favor of the introduction of complications. If a player succeeds at a test, her character achieves her intent in the manner described, regardless of margin of success — if the intent and task are, to use the book's example, picking the lock before the guards arrive, the character picks the lock [I]before[/I] the guards arrive. If a player fails a test, her character fails to achieve her intent but may complete the task — the character picks the lock [I]as[/I] the guards arrive. Other results could be used, too, depending on how we wanted to parse things or what the broader situation is. For instance, maybe the character picks the lock slightly ahead of the guards, but the guards get a look at her face, so they know who's picked the lock. These would both be partial successes and are implementable in the rules as written. Is it more that these read as partial failures rather than partial successes or is there something else going on here? For folks looking for partial success rules, what would that look like? [/QUOTE]

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