Suzume Senseki wrote: ↑Fri Aug 13, 2021 6:47 pmQuestion on the new Strife reduction options:New opportunity spends for reducing strife:
Water/Medicine: : Reduce the strife of another person through a variety of medical means (herbs, massage, acupuncture, therapy, moxibustion, etc.) This reduces their strife by 2. They may only benefit from one such attempt per day (even if the attempt is unsuccessful, they may not try again on the same day.)
Void/Meditation: : Reduce your strife by 2. You may only do this once per timeslot, and not in a thread where you are in an event, pushing an agenda, pursing a passion, or sleeping.
Are these like specific rolls for these purposes, and then you roll vs TN 1 and can use opportunities for these effects if you pass? Or are they TN 0 rolls? Or am I misunderstanding and they are opportunities that can be used whenever you roll Water/ Medicine or Void/ Meditation? (I assume not especially with the wording on the Water one, but doesn't hurt to double check!)
I forgot to add the TN. It's TN 2. And these are specific rolls for that purpose, yes.
Also - that seems to be the only specified way to use Meditation to reduce Strife, since (as I asked before, I think!) there are no defined rules to use Meditation for Strife recovery... right?
Yes, which is why this has been added.
And finally - they can be used only once per roll (i.e. not +), right?
Yes, that's why I wrote without the plus.
As a minor comment - this makes Void/ Meditation slightly less useful for recovery than a thread (or no thread) dealing with your Passion. Is that on purpose?
It is. Passions give you interesting hooks to roleplay with other people "Hey, come drink sake/tea, go horseback riding with me!" You sitting about gazing at your navel is not interesting to anyone but you.
Thanks!
You're beary welcome.
EDIT: Oh also, one more since we're on Strife - can we use the Earth and Water opportunities that relate to Strife recovery (removing 2 strife from oneself with water and from someone else with Earth) in sparring threads? They're not 'GM mandated rolls', so I'd guess not, but since they're roll-heavy threads, maybe it'd make sense to allow it? Just wanna make sure where you stand
My original ruling on this was no. But it does make sense that you can blow off steam by sparring. My revised ruling is thus: You an go ahead and trigger Earth and Water opportunities when sparring in the dojo for recovering strife.
However. if I see a couple of people slap fighting: ie They 're just staying in Earth/Water stance and keeping nothing but clean opportunities for the sole purpose lowering strife, I reserve the right to have Zang-sensei come in and show them what fighting is REALLY all about because they apparently don't know how to hit people properly. They will come out of this much more tired, believe me.
