RE: [HoE] Chips

[Graveyard Greg <graveyard_greg@yahoo.com>]

---"Phalen, Patrick" <pphalen@avionics.itt.com> wrote:
>
> >        When can you spend chips on a trait roll? The reason I ask is
> >because the rule book really doesn't say. A player I know had to
make a
> >trait roll and wanted to spend a white chip to get an extra die. The
> >reason he wanted to spend the chip was because his trait roll was a
1d?
> >If I allow him to spend the chip before the roll his oods of
botching go
> >way down.
> 
> There is really no reason a player would spend a chip until after
they saw
> the result of their roll.  An evil aside to this, is that it may
actually
> help his chances of going bust with a 1d skill.
> 
> Ex: player rolls a 1d8 for a TN 5 and gets a 3.  Spends a white chip
and
> rolls a one!  Stop right there!  He now has gone bust!  Scary.

Hm. Good point. Maybe I'm wrong, and you do spend it afterwards. Argh!
Memory overload!

Graveyard Greg
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