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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMMichael" data-source="post: 6652390" data-attributes="member: 6685730">When you do something twenty times, is one of those times going to be a catastrophic failure?  Is one of the attempts going to outshine every other attempt?This isn't the case, at least from my game-designer-point-of-view.  And my upcoming rules patch will reflect this: there are only three outcomes to a contest: favorable, GM's call (tie), and unfavorable.  A 1 is a 5 is a 10, as long as your opposing contest is 11 or higher.So when DO catastrophic failures happen?  Simple.  Ask the player.  Rules version 1.30 mentions that you can get hero points back for -choosing to fail-.  Well, choosing an epic failure over an "unfavorable outcome" is definitely grounds for getting that hero point back!</blockquote>