I have a question about Devil’s Bargains that affect other PCs.

I have a question about Devil’s Bargains that affect other PCs.

I have a question about Devil’s Bargains that affect other PCs. If a PC takes a Devil’s Bargain such as the barrels fal onto your companions. Would the affected PCs be able to resist the consequences of the Devil’s Bargain or not since the consequence of the Devil’s Bargain is intended to always happen?

7 thoughts on “I have a question about Devil’s Bargains that affect other PCs.”

  1. Firstly, I would ask the player who is proposing the Devil’s Bargain for player A: How do affect negatively the falling barrels to player A? Which are the consequences for player A? I would also give a free die to every other player who accepted the harm. This free die can be used and expended later in any roll at player’s discrection

    In any case, I would allow every player to resist the consequences.

  2. If it was a choice of the first player, i’d allow them to resist.

    Another option is to ask directly to the affected player if they accept the devilìs bargain, expecially if that makes sense in the fiction.

  3. Typically a devils bargain is a trade off for the person wanting the extra die. So i rule that you cant effect other people directly with your devils bargains. Devils bargains also cannot be resisted; it is a consequence that must happen for the bonus die.

  4. Devil’s Bargains can 100% screw your friends, and it’s ridiculously fun. It’s like Compels in Fate. “Here’s a die if you take the fight out the window, leaving the Leech unprotected” “Here’s a die for if you shoot the guard through your Slide because you’re sick of this smooth-talking” “Here’s a die for skulking through the House all sneaky like if you pocket some coin for you and you alone, you greedy bastard.” “Here’s a die to convince the Bloodletters to help you out, if you give them what they really want: the location of your Whisper’s safehouse.”

  5. The Devil’s Bargain is fictional, so mechanizing it is between the GM and the group. So yeah, if you’re trying to swashbuckle across the room and the bargain is you can but the rope you’re swinging on will release barrels to fall into the fight, that’s fine. Those affected can resist that consequence. Or maybe the group and GM agree that the die of fate is rolled for each potentially affected character, maybe the barrel doesn’t fall on ones who roll well (and ones who roll poorly must resist.) Or maybe the GM decides the sagging floor can’t take the pummelling, and suddenly it gives, dumping everyone in to the cellar so everyone has to resist or take a level 2 harm from the fall.

    The player taking the Devil’s Bargain doesn’t get to pick how the falling barrels affect the situation. That player just picks whether or not the barrels fall. Then we go fiction first and work out mechanizing from there.

  6. Resistance is for resisting a consequence (not the Devil’s Bargain itself). Further, a devil’s bargain could affect others: see the example of DBs which includes “betrayal.” the person betrayed could be a fellow PC.

    another PC affected by a devil’s bargain could resist the consequence they suffer as a result of it – but they’re not resisting the devil’s bargain itself. That’s not what resistance resists.

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