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jonthecelt.shoguntotalwar	Query about 'Damage control' demo game	Lead	[-]
Posts: 1 (06/10/09 12:53:39) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Ok, so it's a very old product now, for the old system, but... I'm planning on running a campaign at the school I work in, and figured that Damage Control might be a good place to start for a taster. Reading through it again to refresh myself, I also refreshed the memory of something that puzzled me the first time I read it. When the scenario is telling you about what the PCs find in each of the UFO group's homes, it refers to the results of a Df1, Df2 etc. search. I have looked through all my sourcebooks, including all three BoL's and the variant rulebooks (Aegis and Sub Rosa), and I can't find a single thing to suggest how you decide what kind of search has been done on a house like this. Either it's a research prject, in which case it requires a PV and number of breakthroughs to find the required knowledge... or it's a search test of some kind, in which case it's a fixed Df, and the results are worked out accordingly. Can anyone explain to me hoiw I should translate this particular section? Cheers, JonTheCelt
BlueHands		#1	[-]
Posts: 42 (06/10/09 22:12:36) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	It is a straight forward Perception attribute test. I would recommend rolling for each Df level against the players Perception scores and provide them with the necessary results. However if they indicate that they are going to be extremely thorough then you can always modify the roll or the results.
jonthecelt.shoguntotalwar		#2	[-]
Posts: 2 (06/10/09 23:27:55) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Not sure that makes sense - say for example a character has PER 3. This means the Df2 roll would be an automatic success; the Df3 would require a 7 or less; and the Df4 roll would require a 4 or lower. Now suppose I roll for each and he succeeds on the Df2 and the Df4 roll, but fails the Df3 - does this mean he notices the easy stuff and the hard stuff, but misses the stuff in the middle? As a system, that seems pretty flawed. The only reconciliation I can come up with is to make one PER roll, and then calculate which rolls he would have succeeded in - so if I roll a 5, for exacmple, that means he passes thew Df2 and 3 tests, but not the Df4. The difficulty I'm having is that I can't see this system for searching a location replicated anywhere else in any of the source books (I have them all), and it's not a system explained anywhere either. Cheers, JonTheCeelt
Kagejin		#3	[-]
Posts: 129 (06/13/09 08:55:04) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Either just run the search like you normally would, or wing it by using your single roll method. Ultimately, I expect this was just a mistake by the author. Part of being a good GM is knowing how to use the game's mechanics to improvise when necessary. Use whatever method you think will be most fun for your group.

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