thread: 2009-07-13 : How About Some Q and A
On 2009-07-17, Adam Dray wrote:
That was me not only being accidentally anonymous but also squatting in the house of wrong. Good thing I did, though, or I wouldn't have gotten you to set me straight. It's amazing that I can think I get this stuff after 5 years of reading and playing with it, but I apparently don't.
And sorry about your cat. Satan's minion told me he'd clear up my acne if I did that.
Lemme see if I have this right.
So atE is sorta mini-stakes-setting for that roll. By the time you roll, you've already agreed what the outcomes of that roll can be and what the different dice results will mean in the fiction. The roll just puts an exclamation point on it.
Then itM uses dice as a currency (rather, might use). The roll finalizes very little. For example, you might roll, then choose which trait to use it with. Or, like in Dogs in the Vineyard, the roll just goes into your dice pool, and their use hasn't yet been determined until you complete a round of raises and sees.
