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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 7611303" data-attributes="member: 6696971"><p>I want to do a quick example of the above:</p><p></p><p>You're in a Level +3 Complexity 3 Skill Challenge at mid Paragon Tier.</p><p></p><p>Let us say the following is true about the gamestate:</p><p></p><p>1) Both Advantages and all 3 Secondary Skills have been used (to buff actions/wipe out failures etc).</p><p></p><p>2) We're at 7 Successes and 2 Failures.</p><p></p><p>3) Only 1 Hard DC has been deployed by the GM thus far. As such, this final obstacle will be at the Hard DC. Given that it is Level +3, that means that the Hard DC here will be 2 beyond the of-level Hard DC.</p><p></p><p>In terms of the fiction, let us say that its an exorcism in the throne room to determine whether the powerful demon possessing the princess (who is the sole heir...the king was cursed with infertility after her birth) claims her body forever (thus cueing a significantly up-leveled battle where not only must she/it be defeated, but the King and Queen, Minions, must be protected) or the demon is cast out, back to the Abyss.</p><p></p><p>So the situation is dire (both mechanically and fiction-wise), on the precipice of disaster or fortune (on the roller coaster plunge of the Falling Action).</p><p></p><p>Is there a collection of, say, 15 words that can impel the gravity (say, better depict the steep angle of descent down the Falling Action roller coaster) better than any other collection of 15 words, where both collections of words conveys the situation <em>appropriately</em> (appropriately here meaning, inform players sufficiently that they can make intuitive action declarations for their PCs).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 7611303, member: 6696971"] I want to do a quick example of the above: You're in a Level +3 Complexity 3 Skill Challenge at mid Paragon Tier. Let us say the following is true about the gamestate: 1) Both Advantages and all 3 Secondary Skills have been used (to buff actions/wipe out failures etc). 2) We're at 7 Successes and 2 Failures. 3) Only 1 Hard DC has been deployed by the GM thus far. As such, this final obstacle will be at the Hard DC. Given that it is Level +3, that means that the Hard DC here will be 2 beyond the of-level Hard DC. In terms of the fiction, let us say that its an exorcism in the throne room to determine whether the powerful demon possessing the princess (who is the sole heir...the king was cursed with infertility after her birth) claims her body forever (thus cueing a significantly up-leveled battle where not only must she/it be defeated, but the King and Queen, Minions, must be protected) or the demon is cast out, back to the Abyss. So the situation is dire (both mechanically and fiction-wise), on the precipice of disaster or fortune (on the roller coaster plunge of the Falling Action). Is there a collection of, say, 15 words that can impel the gravity (say, better depict the steep angle of descent down the Falling Action roller coaster) better than any other collection of 15 words, where both collections of words conveys the situation [I]appropriately[/I] (appropriately here meaning, inform players sufficiently that they can make intuitive action declarations for their PCs). [/QUOTE]
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