"...directly protect or favour..."

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Re: "...directly protect or favour..."

Post by Glorelendil » Thu Aug 18, 2016 2:31 pm

By does "directly contribute" really mean "indirectly"?
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Re: "...directly protect or favour..."

Post by Deadmanwalking » Thu Aug 18, 2016 4:34 pm

I'd be inclined to make it definitionally intention-based. If the reason you are doing X is that it'll help your Fellowship Focus, free Hope rebate for you. If it's not, no rebate.

Now, obviously, the LM will be the ultimate arbiter so you don't have people trying to justify everything as being to help their Focus, but that's true anyway, and intention seems the right place to draw the line thematically.

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Re: "...directly protect or favour..."

Post by Glorelendil » Thu Aug 18, 2016 6:09 pm

Deadmanwalking wrote:I'd be inclined to make it definitionally intention-based. If the reason you are doing X is that it'll help your Fellowship Focus, free Hope rebate for you. If it's not, no rebate.

Now, obviously, the LM will be the ultimate arbiter so you don't have people trying to justify everything as being to help their Focus, but that's true anyway, and intention seems the right place to draw the line thematically.
And I *think* that in general the sort of players who are attracted to (and retained by) TOR can be trusted to be honest about intentionality. I'd be wary of taking that approach with your typical D&D Adventurer's League table of drop-in players.
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