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Originally Posted by NickMiddleton
Quite agree - but there is a flaw in this version: If I special my Sneak against the Guards critical Spot, he only gets a normal success (he won, I got a success two steps better than failure, so I get to bump him down two steps from Criticla success to normal successs). But if I critical my Sneak, but still lose, against his critical Spot he still gets a critical Spot... 
Hence Pete Nash and I saying (in different fashions) that in case ii, the rule should be "higher roll wins, but only achieves a normal success" or, "bumping happens in case ii, but can't reduce a winner's degree of success to worse than a normal success" whichever is deemed clearer. This address the flaw. |
I take your point - and I think the "higher roll wins, but only achieves a normal success" solves it nicely. I'll have a think just to see if there aren't any weirdo side effects, but it sounds good.
Has Jason commented on this?