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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6148118" data-attributes="member: 6696971">pemerton and @<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?6688937-Ratskinner" target="_blank">Ratskinner</a>      I've done quite a few things with the Disease/Curse Track in 4e (primarily horror, and travel attrition/environmental exhaustion to create tension at attempted Extended and Short Rests) but nothing equivalent to "embarassed in front of Angela".  However, I do use a simple house rule in my home game that is akin to this.  It has extremely minimal overhead and is very rewarding to our playstyle; the functional equivalent to invoking Aspects negatively in Fate to earn Fate points and Distinctions in MHRP to buff the Doom Pool for Plot points.  Its strictly non-combat conflict resolution.During a player's panel in a Skill Challenge, they can choose willingly to fail.  Doing so provides them 3 rewards:1)  Narration rights to the result of the failure of the panel.2)  An encounter power that is the equivalent of the human racial power Heroic Effort except only for skills; EncounterNo Action      Personal Trigger: You fail a skill check.Effect: You gain a +4 power bonus to the skill check.The player can have only one of these at a time.  When they invoke this, they get a card upon which they write a short thematic phrase (the equivalent of an Aspect or Distinction) that captures the essence of the failed panel.  When they cash it in for the Encounter power above, they write a short thematic phrase on the other side that captures the essence of the outcome of the current panel and hand it in to me.  We have a collection of these for posterity and amusement.  After that cash-in, they can then earn a new one for the future.3)  Narration rights to the result of the current panel of which the Encounter power was invoked. So kind of along those lines I suppose.  But, again, not in the official ruleset nor in any Dragon that I'm aware of (and I'd know it if it was).</blockquote>

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