Son of Grab Bag of Questions

Burning Empires General Questions
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More grab bag! Apologies if answers to these are hiding somewhere on the forums; a cursory search did not uncover them.

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[li]Let’s say I roll a 7D Point versus your 3D/4D Rebuttal. You roll 2s on your defensive half, 2s on your offensive half. I roll 4s on my Point. What kind of test do I log? What kind of test do you log? Why? (Clearly my Point is Routine: 7D vs. Ob 2, right? Yours is trickier, though. 7D vs. Ob 4? 4D vs. Ob 4?)
[/li][li]I split a Resources test to harden/burn tech up from Ob 8 to Ob 5 Resources, Ob 3 Fabrication. I blow my Fabrication test. Does that mean I roll Resources vs. Ob 8, or that I still roll vs. Ob 5, but the GM gets to add traits like Busticated or Bad UI for my Fabrication margin of failure?
[/li][li]When calculating compromises in a Firefight, what do I do with the temporary disposition buffer provided by a position? If I rolled 4 successes on my officer’s roll and take +2s from winning contact, lose 2 disposition, then take a position which provides 3 disposition, and then reduce my opponent to 0, what compromise does he get? If I rolled 4 successes, then occupied the 3P position, then lost 2 dispo from the position buffer before winning, what then?
[/li][li]If I’ve Assessed the factions, can I use a Flak manuever’s offensive half to Take Action to activate a faction? That sure would make the factions more useful.
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Thanks in advance!

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  1. It’s not a linked test, so I think the combined margin of failure for both tests is used as MoF for the device as a whole (that is, if you bomb one test use that margin. If you fail each test by one, the GM adds a trait as if the margin was 2).
  2. IIRC, you compare current dispo (including position bonus, if any) to starting dispo. So holding a degraded position doesn’t cost you anything, but holding one that still has some points can indeed reduce your compromise.
  3. Nope. It’s not a Take Action, so it doesn’t count as one. Same goes for Gambit. Factions, yeah, not that awesome in the Infection, but they can give mass payoff in-game and in sequels. You trade slightly less dispo advantage for substantial narrative power.
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  1. Use the number of dice rolled against the obstacle to determine the test for advancement.
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What’s ‘starting dispo’? Let’s say I won contact and got 4s on my officer’s roll. If I elect to occupy a 3P position at the start of the fight, is my starting disposition 4 (and I’m now at 7/4)? If I instead take the +2 to dispo, is my starting disposition 6 (and I’m at 6/6)?

Ha-ha. So, use the 4D defensive half rolled versus the Point, for 4D against Ob 4 - a Difficult test?

-B

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Yes.

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Rad. Thanks!

-B