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A question on spending Endurance and failing a DS roll:
It says in the ruels you may spend Endurance to add 1 to the roll. So far so good. Then, under Risk Roll, it says that when you try to "overcome" an obstacle, and fail, you reduce your Endurance by the difference failed. So far so good. However, does that mean that the ENdurance you spend to increase an action, is not drained on a success, but refunded? I am asking because it seems that endurance could be drained to 0 VERY quickly, if you spend to increase the roll, as well as lose even more on a fail.

Also, are there any "obstacle turns" in, lets say combat, where, for example, a zombie attacks you and you roll defense, or do you just simply "roll to overcome" until either you or the obstacle reaches 0? I would love some clarifications on things like combat turns, or at least some pointers how I would deal such a situation where, say, a group of 4 poeple are atatcked by 2 zombies/bandits/bears.

Fred Bednarski1 year ago(+1)

Glad you like the game.

The way I run it is that you don't get any endurance back on a failure - you loose it all: both what you spend AND the difference. This makes for pretty brutal games where players are forced to find ways to recover Endurance pretty often (this often leads to players changing goals to find a safe space and rest instead of proceeding).

I don't play with any "obstacle turns" - just swap focus between characters as it makes sense in the narrative. The enemies/obstacle doesn't get their own turn, they are a constant threat. So if two players approach a zombie, the zombie grabs one of them (ask the player to roll to avoid), then switch focus to the other player saying something around the lines "the zombie will bite into the first player's character neck, what do you do?) and so on.

Saying all that, this is how I play it, you are free to play the way you want. If introducing turns is more your style - go for it! If you or your players don't enjoy finding ways to recover Endurance in the middle of the action, feel free to give the spent Endurance back to the players :)

Hope that helps.

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