thread: 2007-08-24 : Poison'd errata and Q&A
On 2007-08-24, Vincent wrote:
Your interpretation's good in every particular. And as you suspect: I get to withhold 5 dice, once.
For fulfilling ambiguous bargains, go with the "reasonable person" standard. If that fails and the two principals in the bargain can't agree, have the rest of the group (including the GM) decide. It won't often come up; bargains are typically concrete enough that you can all see plainly when they're fulfilled.
Also, you may go many game sessions without anyone withholding anyone's soul from a roll. That's fine. Like betrayal in The Mountain Witch, it's the possibility that matters.
Oh, this is important: as GM, be sure to jump in and insist that people write things on their character sheets whenever they strike a bargain, no matter how casual it is, even if they don't intend to invoke the bargain mechanism at all. Keep an ear out and interpret what they say toward striking bargains.
