Re: [HOE] Deflections. please please please a quick response if possible.

[Matt Crawford <matt@severian.chi.il.us>]

> Now the good fu-ist wanted to use his own Seize the Pearl to throw
> it back. But his back was to the gunfighter and evil-fu so I said
> he couldn't. He said he could because he has a card and can
> actively dodge "and the rules don't say I can't" (sound familiar?)
> ...  He still argued so I finally had to use the
> marshal-thumb-of-god and say that bottom line "You can't do
> it. Period. I've made my decision and it applies to everyone so
> they can't do it either. End of line."  He was grumpy at the time
> but later admitted that my ruling made sense (once the fight was
> over and they had won).

These are all heroes.  Amazing things can happen.  I would set some
amazingly high target number (for Cognition, in this case) and let
him have a shot at it.  Whether or not he makes the amazing roll,
everyone is more pleased with the story than if I just said yea or
nay.