Hi!
So I went thru rules, our party created characters, I will DM, we are preparing to play. We are playing for last 10 years with several systems, but we decided that trying something new again (BW - we have Gold edition, Codex and Anthalogy, but currently only using Base-Gold book). My questions (i didnt find answer in forum, or anywhere else) if anybody can help are those:
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Lifestyle fail - What happens when players fail lifestyle test? My player is playing knight, but he can not really afford more than 1 property for 15rps so his Resource Exp is 1. As poor knight (as example in book on 372 says) we did set up his Ob to lifestyle to 2. What happens after our maintenance cycle if he fails his test (Resources 1 against Ob 2)?
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Lifestyle setup - How do players set up their lifestyle first time? Should we work together and say “Okey, you are right, you should have lifestyle with Ob 2, you Timmy should have Ob 4 right? Yeah. Good”) or something else?
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Lifestyle change - can players decide to change lifestyle each cycle? For how many steps up and down they want?
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Property - Player did get some properties, which based on page 374 are form of funds. He spends 15rps on some property. How much funds he starts with?
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Traits - I understood that after character burning only way to get traits for player is via Vote. Is that true even for traits like Nimble (which is C-O)? Should we go together and say “You know, he is playing really agile and speedy character, we should give him Fleet of Foot … or Nimble, or something”? This part seems to work great for Char traits, does not work at all for Dt and C-O traits
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Advancing skills - Text does not match table on page 42. Text clearly states “For skill exponents 5 and higher, a character needs difficult tests equal to half of the skill exponent and challenging tests equal to one third of the exponent rounded up.”. But for exp 7 we have need for 2 challenging tests in table. 7/3 = 2,33 rounded up is 3. What is right? Table or text. Does not work on lower exponents either
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Subsetting - Lifepaths, what is subsetting (like Noble Court)? Is it same as setting? Or are there differences?
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FoRK - How many FoRK should I usually allow for roll? Players are really creative
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Disadvantage - How many disadvantages are you usually dealing in test, where you are dealing any? 1? 2 top? Also, when you say why character will suffer with disadvantage, do you allow character to change narative of his action so he can go around that disadvantage?
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Is there any way to use Bloody Versus with multiple oponents? For example, 1 player ambushed by 2 thiefs
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Practiced precision - one of my players have Trait Practiced Precision. He want to use it on fight actions. Does it mean that he is able to do for example: Great strike for one action, 2x Block and Strike for 1 action, Strike and Avoid for one action, etc? Also, what if he chooses Strike and Avoid and enemy choose Strike? Is my player still avoiding, or is this somehow divided into “strike action vs strike action” and then “no action vs avoid action”, or just “strike action vs strike and avoid action”? Really dont understand how pair would work for this one in fight
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Lock and Strike - it needs special trait Crushing Jaws. Where do i find that?
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Loan - what are mechanical differences between dept-free loan and loan with interest (on lifestyle Ob presumably)?
That would be all now I suppose. Anyway, thanks for all help, I would really like to run BW, but some of my questions are currently blocker, before we can play