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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8308392" data-attributes="member: 16814"><p>My answer -- both/neither/sometimes. My choice to toss the bomb doesn't look very skilled to me -- it was a high risk action with a high chance of complication/failure. It wasn't a good bet. It was, though, very thematic for my character, and had been lurking for some time (saving Martha, the unwillingness to deal with the Lost fanatic, etc). But I certainly didn't leverage the system to accomplish goals, I threw a hail mary. When I didn't have to, because this escalation wasn't necessary, at all, to finishing the mission. </p><p></p><p>But, that said, the immediate response of the other players was to leverage the system, hard, to buy the kind of mitigation of risk that makes the above action make a good bit of sense -- right up until I spent it thematically again. Now, I did think I had a reasonable ability to resist the consequence -- I did have 3 dice. But, even then, I figured I'd be pretty badly hurt anyway (it was a nasty little bomb after all, and at close range).</p><p></p><p>So, it's both/neither/sometimes for my answer. There absolutely was skilled play in there. But there was also not skilled play (mostly me, really). The rest of the session stuck well to skilled play -- the other players did a great job working together to defeat Ulf (who was surprisingly hard, due to bad dice luck).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 8308392, member: 16814"] My answer -- both/neither/sometimes. My choice to toss the bomb doesn't look very skilled to me -- it was a high risk action with a high chance of complication/failure. It wasn't a good bet. It was, though, very thematic for my character, and had been lurking for some time (saving Martha, the unwillingness to deal with the Lost fanatic, etc). But I certainly didn't leverage the system to accomplish goals, I threw a hail mary. When I didn't have to, because this escalation wasn't necessary, at all, to finishing the mission. But, that said, the immediate response of the other players was to leverage the system, hard, to buy the kind of mitigation of risk that makes the above action make a good bit of sense -- right up until I spent it thematically again. Now, I did think I had a reasonable ability to resist the consequence -- I did have 3 dice. But, even then, I figured I'd be pretty badly hurt anyway (it was a nasty little bomb after all, and at close range). So, it's both/neither/sometimes for my answer. There absolutely was skilled play in there. But there was also not skilled play (mostly me, really). The rest of the session stuck well to skilled play -- the other players did a great job working together to defeat Ulf (who was surprisingly hard, due to bad dice luck). [/QUOTE]
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