[freeroleplay] [Fringe] Conflict System

[steven mckenzie]

hmm sound like a normal occurance to me
in many of our rpgs such things happen
so while these two knuckle heads wait each other out
alice is doing something off, away from them, finding
a weapon, calling for help, getting a drink at the
local bar, etc
i let them try to resolve things alone
if the player refuses to act, then he simply looses
out


--- Samuel Penn <sam at glendale.org.uk> wrote:

> 
 > >> What if two people with
> >> an action on hold keep on wanting to wait?
> > 
> > Not sure, how do other systems handle this?
> 
> Okay, just explaining this particular point.
> 
> > 
> > For the sake of the example, Alice wins initiative
> and starts to run
> (she is unarmed). Eve goes next. Eve knows that Bob
> has the option of
> going for his gun, or surrendering. If he runs for
> his gun, Eve wants
> to shoot him. If he surrenders, she wants to shoot
> Alice. She waits to
> see what Bob does.
> 
> > 
> We now have a deadlock, with two characters both
> waiting on the other.
> With an initiative count down system, Alice may have
> gone on step 3,
> Eve on step 2, and Bob on step 1. On step 0, the GM
> asks Eve's player
> what she's doing, and she says she's waiting for
> Bob. Bob's player
> says he's waiting for Eve. On step -1, the same.
> Step -2... etc.
>  

So far, therefore, as the public profession of magic has been one of the roads by which men have passed to supreme power, it has contributed to emancipate mankind from the thraldom of tradition and to elevate them into a larger, freer life, with a broader outlook on the world.  This is no small service rendered to humanity.  And when we remember further that in another direction magic has paved the way for science, we are forced to admit that if the black arts has done much evil, it has also been the source of much good; that if it is the child of error, it has been the mother of freedom and truth.

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