Question about prisoner
- Thread starter tonieee
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Good question. I would be tempted to say go straight to jail - but what does everyone else think?
CosmicGamer
Mongoose
It varies.
If it is from snake eyes when starting anagathics, the term you were hoping for never occurs. You go straight to starting a prison term and never even get to the point of qualifying or any other part of the term you were originally considering.
If it is a mishap, you go "straight to" jail and handle it like the rules say for a mishap. You don't get a benefit or advancement/promotion/commission opportunity for the current term. Your current term still counts as a term for all other purposes, like aging, and lasts the normal 4 years.
If it is from a normal event or life event then I handle it like the rules say and allow that at some point during this term you had an opportunity to gain a promotion and so forth. Your current term counts as a term for all other purposes and lasts the normal 4 years. I'm good with treating these avenues to prison similar to a mishap but I think there should be rules specifying such.
I think of the steps and rolls as being more of an abstract of what happened during a term than a complete linear simulation. When during the term did you gain the term skill? Always the first year of every term and not in the 2nd, 3rd, or last? Survival is only for the second year? Normal events are always in the third year? Promotions always in the last year of a term?
If it is from snake eyes when starting anagathics, the term you were hoping for never occurs. You go straight to starting a prison term and never even get to the point of qualifying or any other part of the term you were originally considering.
If it is a mishap, you go "straight to" jail and handle it like the rules say for a mishap. You don't get a benefit or advancement/promotion/commission opportunity for the current term. Your current term still counts as a term for all other purposes, like aging, and lasts the normal 4 years.
If it is from a normal event or life event then I handle it like the rules say and allow that at some point during this term you had an opportunity to gain a promotion and so forth. Your current term counts as a term for all other purposes and lasts the normal 4 years. I'm good with treating these avenues to prison similar to a mishap but I think there should be rules specifying such.
I think of the steps and rolls as being more of an abstract of what happened during a term than a complete linear simulation. When during the term did you gain the term skill? Always the first year of every term and not in the 2nd, 3rd, or last? Survival is only for the second year? Normal events are always in the third year? Promotions always in the last year of a term?
