UA 2.0 Healing Question…

  • Fondhaven
    Participant

    UA Main Book 2.0

    Pg 59

    Top left, second paragraph.

    Claudia convinces him to let her help, and after icing it to reduce teh swelling, she makes an unskilled significant check against her Mind stat because she doesn’t have an appropriate skill. She gets a 42, which is MORE THEN 30 and lower than her stat, so she could heal a maximum of 6 points of damage…

    Ok, here is my question.

    I understand that she got below her Mind Stat. Now for a signifacant skill role with a untrained skill, you take a -30 shift to your Stat for the role, as stated on page 7. So one must assume that Claudia had a stat of at least 72 mind… 72 (her stat)-30(for unskilled attempt)=42, which was her roll. Now why does it say “gets a 42, WHICH IS MORE THEN 30 and…”. What does 30 have to do with making an unskilled healing check? Is this just an error in the book?

    Fondhaven

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  • John Tynes
    Keymaster

    I don’t have a copy of UA2 here, but that sounds like an error. In UA1, there was a minimum roll of 30 for some situations, and this is probably text that slipped through from the first edition manuscript.

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  • SuperDave
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    And I must say that I was very glad to see the “minimum of 30 (or whatever) but below your stat (or skill)” rules dumped in favor of the simpler shifts. I could see that being pretty confusing for my players. And the BOHICA and OACAWA terminology–well, everybody knows what “crit” and “fumble” mean, so why play cute with the vocabulary? I kind of liked them but I was glad to see them gone. The 2nd-edition rules are much easier to grasp, and I think they’ll be much easier to introduce to new players.

    (Oh as long as we’re looking at things like this, I noticed there were some leftovers from the 1st edition in the 2nd-ed version of “Pinfeathers”–and the first 3 GMCs have skills that exceed their stats, which was not allowed even in the 1st-ed rules. But you’ve probably already been told that on the UAML.)

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