Re: [ORE] Re: WT - A couple of questions from an ST new to Wild Talents

Yes, that is correct, if you decide to not roll all of your hard dice
for some reason then you can't take any of them. For example, you
might have to pay willpower costs on your dice and decide you don't
want to pay the higher cost for using hard dice, so you deliberately
only roll 6d out of your 6d+6hd pool.

However, penalties are assessed after you decide your dice poll size.
This is also important to bear in mind if you choose to have powers
with Willpower Cost, etc.

If penalties triggered the "all or nothing" rule on hard dice you
could never use hard dice in multiple actions, or at long range, etc.

The process goes like this:
1. Declare your actions.
2. Determine the applicable power or skill dice pool.
3. Decide how many dice you are going to roll out of that pool. This
is used in assessing the number of hard dice (all or nothing) and
willpower cost (if your character has willpower costs due to the dice
pool size).
4. Apply penalties (to hard dice first, then normal and wiggle dice)
to determine the final pool size.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 if necessary (in cases where you didn't like
the pool size after you applied all your penalties).
6. Roll the dice.


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Tim Ellis <tellis3@csc.com> wrote:


On Apr 17, 5:40 pm, Matt <moeh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes you have been unduly harsh, multiple action penalties are not voluntary.
>
> Lets say I have 10hd in Head Exploder Harm power. I cannot choose to only use 2hd to knock someone unconscious, the power always tries to blow up their head, it's all or none.
>
> However I could try to blow up 8 different heads. That's -7d leaving me with 3hd to create whatever sets I wish.
>
> Try to think of it as Hd always operate to the best of their ability, rather than just being all or nothing
>

I thought I had seen the "All or Nothing" HD rule used in one of the
ORE rulebooks to effectively say that if you have a power of 6d+6HD
then it can only be reduced to a pool size of 10 (or less) as 4d+6HD
or 6d, because you can't just take "some" Hard Dice without taking
them all - Maybe I am mis-remembering, or maybe this only applies
where I can choose to lose one or other type of dice

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