Extra Effort for mental tasks

philosophyguy · 07-31-2016, 07:55 AM

Has anyone tried using Extra Effort rules for mental tasks? I'm thinking about trying a house rule that allows players to spend 1 FP to get a small bonus on a mental task. The idea would be to model someone concentrating really hard in order to tune out distractions, or to push themselves to focus and think intensely about the problem.

I'm curious if others have tried a similar rule and have feedback. I don't see anything in Basic for this kind of extra effort, but if there's something published elsewhere I'd be curious.

johndallman · 07-31-2016, 08:02 AM

I haven't tried this, but I can see you'd have to be careful to avoid confusing entanglements with spell-casting, which is largely a mental activity.

Anaraxes · 07-31-2016, 08:36 AM

Take Single-Minded with Costs FP?

07-31-2016, 07:55 AM	#1
philosophyguy Join Date: Feb 2014	Extra Effort for mental tasks Has anyone tried using Extra Effort rules for mental tasks? I'm thinking about trying a house rule that allows players to spend 1 FP to get a small bonus on a mental task. The idea would be to model someone concentrating really hard in order to tune out distractions, or to push themselves to focus and think intensely about the problem. I'm curious if others have tried a similar rule and have feedback. I don't see anything in Basic for this kind of extra effort, but if there's something published elsewhere I'd be curious.

07-31-2016, 08:02 AM	#2
johndallman Night Watchman Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Cambridge, UK	Re: Extra Effort for mental tasks I haven't tried this, but I can see you'd have to be careful to avoid confusing entanglements with spell-casting, which is largely a mental activity. __________________ The Path of Cunning. Indexes: DFRPG Characters, Advantage of the Week, Disadvantage of the Week, Skill of the Week, Techniques.

07-31-2016, 08:36 AM	#3
Anaraxes Join Date: Sep 2007	Re: Extra Effort for mental tasks Take Single-Minded with Costs FP?

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