Dice Modifiers

[Condottiere]

Poker is easy to lose, since, in theory, your hand remains hidden.

There is losing with style.

And there is losing so that no one notices that the result is fixed.

 

[MasterGwydion]

Hmmm. That would be an interesting informal interpretation. However, I imagine that the formal rules of dejarik would say the "task/aim" is to win. But maybe it doesn't. However CRB says a task check is "performing the task well" like "performing the task in the spirit/aim of winning ... dejarik (or whatever the task.)"

If there is a hidden agenda to subvert (or deliberately fumble) that from happening, that is another sub-task. But you couldn't achieve that without initiating a game of dejarik first. Unless you fake absence through injury, I suppose. But "absence" implies missing from "the right thing to do" - doesn't it?

If your goal is to fire a warning shot with a gun and you fail the roll, you may hit your target by accident. Or is this not correct?

 

[Arkathan]

If your goal is to fire a warning shot with a gun and you fail the roll, you may hit your target by accident. Or is this not correct?

Ask those two Missouri politicians about the injured reporter after they fired an AR at steel targets seven meters away. Without eye protection.
Although those two were probably working with a -3...

 

[Limpin Legin]

That would depend on the wookie not caring that you let it win.

Can do an Opposed Check in Traveller if the wookies could describe what they are opposing exactly, and whether that sort of opposition upholds a rule of dejarik.

 

[MasterGwydion]

Can do an Opposed Check in Traveller if the wookies could describe what they are opposing exactly, and whether that sort of opposition upholds a rule of dejarik.

I am confused on how this would work. The wookie is playing to win, the other party is playing to lose. Is that an opposed check since they are both trying to do the same thing, let the wookie win?

 

[Limpin Legin]

If your goal is to fire a warning shot with a gun and you fail the roll, you may hit your target by accident. Or is this not correct?

Missed warning shots, missed conventional shots, poorly aimed grenades and rockets ALL land somewhere, yet such misses are not covered in Mg Traveller.

 

[Limpin Legin]

I am confused on how this would work. The wookie is playing to win, the other party is playing to lose. Is that an opposed check since they are both trying to do the same thing, let the wookie win?

I suppose you got to ask yourself if one simple task check really reflects the intricacies of the dejarik game, or whether the game warrants that much attention to detail.