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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mirzabah" data-source="post: 365372" data-attributes="member: 3211">Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that you were. For the record, neither was I <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It's a Willpower check against a "Target Number" (TN - the CODA nomenclature for DC). The TN for a Mild temptation is in the range 5-8; 9-14 for a Strong temptation, and 15-20 for a Very Strong temptation.On further examination of the rules, it isn't quite so bad as it seemed at first. Basically it all depends on how badly you roll - LotR has degrees of success and failure. If you fail slightly, you take a point of Corruption, but resist the temptation. Likewise if you fail moderately, except you take 2 points. If you fail disastrously, you take 3 points and succumb. This means that, yes, you would take the money and spy on your buddies, though the GM may allow additional Willpower checks at her discretion to "throw off the corrupting influence". Corruption points are not taken off, but service is returned to normal.I still don't like it. For one thing: That's a pretty hefty tax just because somebody made you an offer you could - and did - refuse, but you just happened to fluff the roll. You could argue that the chances of it happening are fairly slim, but I say that the chance shouldn't be there - it's completely unnecessary and just doesn't seem fair.It also contradicts the books. Two of the most corrupt characters in LotR - Saruman and Wormtongue - are also two of the most charming. Yet, according to Decipher, they should have serious penalties on their social skills. But then, Corruption is a PC thing - NPCs don't have it. I don't like that kind of thinking either *sigh*.Note also that there is a lopsided-ness to Corruption checks that shows up in other areas of the CODA system. If you fail really badly, you do the bad and gain a lot of Corruption, but if you fail only slightly you just gain 1 Corruption point. On the other hand, the best that can happen is nothing; there's no difference between just barely succeeding and a rip-roaring, feast-upon-the-fatted-calf success - you certainly don't lose any Corruption points or anything symmetrical like that.</blockquote>

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