thread: 2007-08-24 : Poison'd errata and Q&A
On 2007-08-24, Warren wrote:
Oh, another followup question that occurs to me. You can withhold 5 dice, once, from any roll, right?
What happens if I'm rolling less than 5 dice—Let's say you want me to lose a "Going into Danger" type of roll, i.e. Devil vs. Ambition—so you decide to withhold dice from me.
My Ambition is only 2, so do I roll 1 die, zero dice (getting no successes—but what happens with ties?), is it an automatic failure, or does it work rather like Sorcerer, where the GM gets bonus dice in their pool? Or some other combination?
Or can you only withhold Soul dice when Soul is (at least part of) the dice pools I'm rolling? If so, what happens in an "Attack someone helpless" contest? Do you reduce the pool I'm rolling (i.e. Brutality), or do you reduce my character's Soul rating instead (i.e. the dice the GM will be rolling?)
