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

    11 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    20     Chord and this section purpose is exactly to present those rules

    21     specially chosen for Arpeggii.  Be free to freely choose those

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

    23 

    24   <section id="sdepassement">

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

    26 

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

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

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

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

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

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

    33       This risk can then be either directly add to <link

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

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

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

    37       decide by the GM.</para>

    38 

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

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

    41       risk level associated with an action enable you to take into

    42       account a certain amount of self-sacrifice without making the

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

    44       try to run even farther but the supplementary effort taken can

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

    46 

    47     <example id="xdepassement">

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

    49 

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

    51         marathon faster than his average.  The GM estimate that this

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    60         +3 (the risk level) +10 (the difficulty) - +4 (the degrees of

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

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

    63         

    64     </example>

    65   </section>

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