If you roll the entanglement Show of Force and don’t have any claims, do you automatically go to war with the other faction?
If you roll the entanglement Show of Force and don’t have any claims, do you automatically go to war with the other…
If you roll the entanglement Show of Force and don’t have any claims, do you automatically go to war with the other…
This came up in a session I ran a few months back. I went with the “welp, you guys are at war now. Have fun.” Which didn’t go over very well (and I probably didn’t handle it great), the following score was then an attempt to rectify/undo the issues the entanglement brought up w/ that faction. (It was the Ink Rakes – they were the only faction left w/ negative status that wasn’t at war at the time). A good social plan “fixed” their relation to not war and they moved on from there.
I’d agree the wording on that one is hard to interpret, especially when it drops in early (I think it was session 2 or 3 for my group) and you don’t have as well of an idea about the faction connections.
Technically, yes. However, a war only lasts as long as one side continues it. If it’s really awkward or nonsensical for a war to continue, just have the enemy offer to negotiate an end to it right away.
I had this come up, and they were already at war. I ruled the Show of Force hit their lair, which had the Secret upgrade – so I started a clock of “Lair no longer secret to them” to represent the opposing faction’s efforts. The crew made a deal to stave things off, but when the clock eventually ran out because they didn’t make good on their deal, there was a showdown at their lair (which was quite the epic capstone to the campaign I might add).
Nicely done!