Can anyone share their experiences with Fortune rolls in practice?
Can anyone share their experiences with Fortune rolls in practice?
Reading the final version, and I feel like I’m not getting its interaction with the positioning/effect system.
Some examples of where I’m confused.
1) Fortune sample, pg 35, with shooting Bazso Baz. It seems like the 4/5 roll should already determine that it was success with a complication – why does the Fortune roll come into play to determine that the target lives? Doesn’t the 4/5 outcome roll already cover this? This feels like it’s essentially giving the NPC a Resistance roll, which I took to be a unique feature of the PC’s (stress -> push/resist). It seems weird that the player rolled a 4/5 to Hunt the target, and then the target, what, can roll a 6 to live? Or a 1? It seems like the Fortune roll is taking over the resolution mechanic that already got rolled.
2) pg 43, using Fortune to determine the impact of attire? That seems random – it’s not an uncertainty, right? The attire presumably affects a Sway or Consort or Command roll, and should alter effect: it’s not actually uncertain to the players whether his coat is actually a boon or just scoundrel-chic, right? It doesn’t have a mechanical impact /outside/ of those actions, does it? So what’s this Fortune roll do? Is it more like, “this coat’s super… uh, stylish, but I don’t know whether that suits this person’s taste really well, or is a huge turn-off. I’ll roll to see whether this is an advantage or a disadvantage”?
3) pg 66, a suppressed enemy rolling Fortune to see if they maneuver/attack. Again, it seems like if you’re skirmishing with the gang, and they’re suppressed, you’ve turned your actions into controlled and theirs into desperate – right, it’s built in? So again, I don’t get where the built-in positioning mechanism gives over to Fortune.
It seems like the examples that keep coming up in the book are all built-in to P/E, and I wouldn’t have even thought of using fortune for them… except the examples repeatedly call for it.
For the folks who’ve been playtesting for a while, how much do you use Fortune rolls? How much does it interact with P/E?