How Do You Play It - Perplexed and Overwhelmed
Posted: Fri May 15, 2020 11:17 am
We played this week for the first time in years.
One of the players is a Grey Wizard and cast Bewilder from the shadows on the "door man" guarding the way to a pleasure boat. It inflicts Perplexed which adds a purple to mental tasks. Afterwards the Smuggler walked up and played Fake Out to convince the door man that they were supposed to be on the boat as staff. I loved the idea but it didn't seem right that the Perplexed wouldn't come into play with an opposed check. Am I missing something in the rules?
I dropped the Int of the doorman on the guile check which made the check an Easy one. I really felt the perplexed should work here or on things like stealth checks. The other ideas were throwing in some fortune (they are kind of flake though) or making the test a Contested one.
How would you play it?
Cheers
One of the players is a Grey Wizard and cast Bewilder from the shadows on the "door man" guarding the way to a pleasure boat. It inflicts Perplexed which adds a purple to mental tasks. Afterwards the Smuggler walked up and played Fake Out to convince the door man that they were supposed to be on the boat as staff. I loved the idea but it didn't seem right that the Perplexed wouldn't come into play with an opposed check. Am I missing something in the rules?
I dropped the Int of the doorman on the guile check which made the check an Easy one. I really felt the perplexed should work here or on things like stealth checks. The other ideas were throwing in some fortune (they are kind of flake though) or making the test a Contested one.
How would you play it?
Cheers