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A player, 1 September 2007
RE: This.
Please let me help cut through some of the asker's verbosity to the root of the problem with the above answer (besides the fatigue ):
If a Personality's Force is 0 due to rulebook-imposed minimums, but actually has penalties upon it in excess of 0, wouldn't the bonus required to set the card's Force to a number have to overcome all the existing Penalities above and beyond 0?
Example: A card with base 3F has -8F worth of Penalities upon it (-5F below the 0 minimum). It sets its Force to 7 . The bonus required to achieve this would be +12F, correct?
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 1 September 2007
RE: This.
Please let me help cut through some of the asker's verbosity to the root of the problem with the above answer (besides the fatigue ):
If a Personality's Force is 0 due to rulebook-imposed minimums, but actually has penalties upon it in excess of 0, wouldn't the bonus required to set the card's Force to a number have to overcome all the existing Penalities above and beyond 0?
Example: A card with base 3F has -8F worth of Penalities upon it (-5F below the 0 minimum). It sets its Force to 7 . The bonus required to achieve this would be +12F, correct?
There used to descriptions of that sort of situation, but it's not in Samurai Edition rules right now.
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 1 September 2007
Fixed.
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