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[Saibankan]

So, on strife...

(1) Are we allowed to take strife on a roll that exceeds our composure, as long as we started the roll with strife below composure? For example, if at 4 strife out of 10 composure (one can but dream!), if I then make a roll, can I keep dice showing a total of 7 strife? Or do I have to stop keeping dice once I get to 6?

(2) If the former, and I'm at 11/10 strife after the roll, I'm now compromised and cannot keep any dice with strife. But I can still roll and just only keep dice without strife? And my other option at that point is to either unmask, or wait until the next timeslot, where strife will reset to half-max? And in that next timeslot or following I can also pursue a passion to reduce strife.

(3) Lastly, at 10/10 I'm not compromised, correct? Just at the limit.

1) Yes, even if you are at strife = to composure, you don't enter compromised until the roll resolves, so you can take all those lovely lovely strife dice Good thing you reset to 50% at the start of the next time slot, neh?

2) Yes to every part of this.

3) Also correct. You don't break down until you hit 11+

[Seppun Unsei]

Questorinoes, or rather just questorino

[Moto Mitsuki]

A question about stakes.

Disclaimer: I'm not a fan of betting in general and will more or less always find a way to complain about betting rules.

I'm under the impression only very few people are staking Honor/Glory on rolls, and I can understand why: Staking is already dangerous if you know the odds, as you're still betting on a good dice roll; doing it fully blind, not knowing at all what the roll will be about (Ring/Skill), just seems foolish.

Instead, would it be possible to do it on the same day, after looking what the event is about, simply by specifying it in the description of the first roll for the event? The risk would still be there, there would be no cheating possible (you cannot change a description on Sakkaku after the roll has begun), it would make staking more tempting, and it would still make sense in universe (simply boasting in front of the judge or in the bleachers instead of at the bar the previous day).

Though I guess this would be unfair to those whose favorite skills have been rolled during the first few days, and who played by the old rules...

[Moto Mitsuki]

Follow-up on a previous question.

[Shiba Raizo]

XP Expenditure here that may or may not be relevant rolling into Day 5...

[Saibankan]

The problem with this is that glory is betting on whether or not you'll come in at the top tier. If you hold betting until you see the event, you have encouragement to hold off on participating until the very last minute, trying to figure if you can snipe top tier or not, which isn't fair to thee people who participated earlier.

I might, however, move honor betting to first roll, giving everyone the benefit of seeing the event before betting their precious honor on an event that suddenly as a high TN in it.

A question about stakes.

Disclaimer: I'm not a fan of betting in general and will more or less always find a way to complain about betting rules.

I'm under the impression only very few people are staking Honor/Glory on rolls, and I can understand why: Staking is already dangerous if you know the odds, as you're still betting on a good dice roll; doing it fully blind, not knowing at all what the roll will be about (Ring/Skill), just seems foolish.

Instead, would it be possible to do it on the same day, after looking what the event is about, simply by specifying it in the description of the first roll for the event? The risk would still be there, there would be no cheating possible (you cannot change a description on Sakkaku after the roll has begun), it would make staking more tempting, and it would still make sense in universe (simply boasting in front of the judge or in the bleachers instead of at the bar the previous day).

Though I guess this would be unfair to those whose favorite skills have been rolled during the first few days, and who played by the old rules...

[Suzume Senseki]

I was re-reading the rules on damage and critical wounds and I think I'm still confused about some things... I mean, both in general and how they apply to PbP.

So please bear with me (*drumroll*):

If you suffer the Lightly Wounded / Severely Wounded conditions, apparently you can only roll (and it's a difficult roll!) once per week to recover. That's like once per game... right? Are there other ways to remove these conditions that I'm missing? Or anything specific for the PbP environment?

[Asahina Bo]

I was re-reading the rules on damage and critical wounds and I think I'm still confused about some things... I mean, both in general and how they apply to PbP.

So please bear with me (*drumroll*):

If you suffer the Lightly Wounded / Severely Wounded conditions, apparently you can only roll (and it's a difficult roll!) once per week to recover. That's like once per game... right? Are there other ways to remove these conditions that I'm missing? Or anything specific for the PbP environment?

The RAW answer: Two rolls per week (one by another character with Medicine, one by the wounded character for natural healing) per injured Ring. Path to Inner Peace can remove also Lightly Wounded with an Opportunity spend.

Then any specialty rules our illustrious GM may mercifully grant.

[Saibankan]

I was re-reading the rules on damage and critical wounds and I think I'm still confused about some things... I mean, both in general and how they apply to PbP.

So please bear with me (*drumroll*):

If you suffer the Lightly Wounded / Severely Wounded conditions, apparently you can only roll (and it's a difficult roll!) once per week to recover. That's like once per game... right? Are there other ways to remove these conditions that I'm missing? Or anything specific for the PbP environment?

The RAW answer: Two rolls per week (one by another character with Medicine, one by the wounded character for natural healing) per injured Ring. Path to Inner Peace can remove also Lightly Wounded with an Opportunity spend.

Then any specialty rules our illustrious GM may mercifully grant.

I would say that if you suffer those conditions the Deer will provide healing to remove the condition. It'd be hard to be much of a catch in a miai limping around

[Suzume Senseki]

I would say that if you suffer those conditions the Deer will provide healing to remove the condition. It'd be hard to be much of a catch in a miai limping around

Fair enough, thanks ! Asking also b/c they actually seem quite easy to come across, as they're among the least serious critical wounds

Thanks for the answers! (Also to Asahina Bo!)