01.01: Meta-game discussion
@Bai-Ling Li
Baylee will grab the two who look easiest to boss about and use her Command skill to boss them. Admittedly, she doesn't know she has command skill, and is just wielding brute force of personality for this. If one of them is one with the Tech skill, great. Just couldn't think of an IC way for her to identify them within time constraints. Then, I will invoke the aspect used above for the +2.
A couple of points I want to bring up. I'm sorry if this is too meta-gamey or too teacher-y.
Command
I'm not interested in the Command skill for this conflict. I's a level of granularity I'm not interested in exploring here. The drama in the situation is easily modelled with one roll (rather than, say three: nice, gather, build). I'd rather use those things as potential failure-reasons than decision-points. I hope that makes sense.
NPC SKill Sets
I randomly rolled to see how many of the NPC from the mob have sufficient Tech Skills to help build. You've got two on-board. The others can help gather, of course. I'm happy with "you asked them to help, and they helped" You might have all five of the mob helping, but you only gain +2 from their assistance. But mechanically, the dice-restrictions hold.
Rolls
Bai Ling-Li rolled -2 using 4 Fudge dice with rolls of 0, -1, 0, -1. Tech +3 (TN+4), Build a Bridge. Invoke for +2. Blast, well, If I grabbed a NPC with the Tech skill for the help, that still succeeds...
SO:
Rolled 4dF(-2) + Tech(+3) + NPCs(+2) + More Debris...(+2) = +1+2+2 = Result(+5/+4) SUCCESS.
As a side note: I noticed that you invoked on the dice-roller. Thanks. It makes sense. You do know that you can roll and invoke after the roll, if you need to. That's the core mechanic I love about Fate... the ability to turn an abject failure into a success... after the fact.
You succeeded at the roll, so you will get the bridge built in time before the station goes kablooie. I Mean, metagame, that was never in doubt. I"m not gonna kill off the PCs. But what kind of condition you'll end up in when you get to the ship? That remains to be seen.
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:51, Sat 13 Mar 2021.