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  <title id="stadvacts">Advanced Actions</title> 

  <para>Although the actions type presented in the preceding section

    permit to resolved must situations, there is some actions that can

    be heavy to handle or better reflect by other mean.  The Game

    Master shouldn't be confused by such details and interpret the

    results in the must convenient way for herself, the players and

    the story.  However, sometime, by slightly modifying a rule, you

    can find a new one with a result sufficiently pleasant that we

    want to reuse it again.  This new method became a new rule, a new

    Chord and this section purpose is exactly to present those rules

    specially chosen for Arpeggii.  Be free to freely choose those

    ones you want to keep for your own Symphony.</para>

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    <title id="stdepassement">Surpassing action</title>

    <para>Surpassing actions add a new element: the risk.  A level of

      risk is assign to each action, or even to a group of actions,

      along with the <link linkend="sdifficulty">difficulty</link>.

      When the PC roll is <link linkend="smarge">margin of

      success</link>, the <literal>risk</literal> obtain is the sum of

      the risk level and the difficulty minus the degrees of success.

      This risk can then be either directly add to <link

      linkend="sdouleur">pain points</link> (only if the risk is

      greater than zero), as a damage level to a <link

      linkend="sencaisse">soak roll</link>, or to any other effect

      decide by the GM.</para>

    <para>This rule can look abstract but is a very simple method to

      deal with self-performance in a fun and interesting way.  The

      risk level associated with an action enable you to take into

      account a certain amount of self-sacrifice without making the

      action more difficult.  For example, a long-distance runner can

      try to run even farther but the supplementary effort taken can

      cost him a lot, even if he succeed.</para>

    <example id="xdepassement">

      <title id="xtdepassement">Surpassing Action</title>

      <para>A marathon runner with a +4 level in Run try to run the

        marathon faster than his average.  The GM estimate that this

        kind of action is a surpassing one with a risk level of +3 and

        a difficulty equal to +5 - [the number of minutes below the

        average].  If the PC try to do the run in 10 minutes under the

        average, the difficulty will be +5 - 10 = -5, and if he choose

        to do it in 30 minutes less, instead, the difficulty will be

        -10.  The PC choose to make at 30 minutes below the average.

        He roll the dice and got a +10, a success margin of +10+4-10 =

        +4.  So he does it very well.  However, the risk taken is now

        +3 (the risk level) +10 (the difficulty) - +4 (the degrees of

        success) = +9.  So our poor runner take 9 points of pain and

        must do a fainting roll to not lost his consciousness.</para>

    </example>

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