Art Magic - Evoke versus test successes

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@luke

In a Versus test, the number of successes your opponent rolls is considered your obstacle (for advancement and everything else).

I’m pretty sure this means net successes. My interpretation is that your final Ob in a Vs Test is your opponent’s successes minus their Ob penalty, plus your Ob penalty. (I usually set a floor on this to 1 for advancement, but I think that’s a drift; I think RAW, the floor is 0, which you don’t get to log. I’m not sure, though.)

@luke

Therefore, when suffering a +1 Ob penalty in a versus test, you increase the number of successes you need to win by one.

In our example, we change the variable to +4 Ob. The Wizard increases the number of successes he needs to win by 4.

Here’s some of Thor’s commentary from that thread you linked in your first post:

@Thor

Are we assuming that both opponents are skilled here? If so, here’s how I would handle it: The Sword guy gets 3 successes. The Knife guy as gets 3 successes, but his +2 Ob cancels out two of those successes; he is left with 1 effective success. The Knife guy’s 1 successes cancels out one of the Sword guy’s successes. In the end, the Sword guy successfully Strikes with a margin of success of 2

Thor is wise.

I recommend checking out the rest of that post for his commentary on Skilled Vs Unskilled.

EDIT:

@dpolan

Thank you

You’re welcome, man! I’m always game for talkin’ Burning Wheel!