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Old 05-29-2017, 01:57 AM   #63
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Default Re: New Technique of the Week: an ongoing thread

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Originally Posted by Kelly Pedersen View Post
An interesting idea, yeah. Maybe model it like the "stabilizing roll" that GURPS Thaumatology suggests for different spell colleges? So the guide could roll at a bit of a penalty (I wouldn't suggest -5 if we're not going to increase the complementary bonus), and if they succeed, they give the person they're guiding a bonus, and that person fails, the guide can roll their own Climbing/Hiking/whichever skill roll, and if that succeeds, the subject's roll is treated as an ordinary failure instead of a critical failure?

There might be room for additional penalties based on group size here too.
How about a mechanism for invoking the "confirmed crit" rule used with Piloting?
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