Editing 18thCenturyMage/Alternate Combat Rules (section)

==Dramatic Failure==

If a player character rolls 0 successes on a dice roll, they ''may choose'' to have the outcome be a dramatic failure.  Doing so results in a dramatic failure occurring, as per the usual nWoD rules, and the character immediately recovers 1 point of Willpower.  A player may only volunteer for a dramatic failure in this way once per story, and only at the group's discretion; a given dice roll may have no viable dramatic failure outcomes, and thus be inappropriate for this rule.


''Why these changes?''  The existing nWoD dramatic failure rules do not, in fact, occur at dramatic moments; instead, they only happen under circumstances of near-certain failure anyway.  This change offers players a way to get their characters embroiled in more trouble for a small reward.  A GM may wish to offer 1 experience point rather than Willpower, depending on the type of experience distribution that occurs in their game.