长期检定
与发生在转瞬之间的检定不同,不少检定需要耗费更长的时间。也许你需要花上好几天学习一道新法术,或者你打算修理你那台破旧的美制车(Americar),并且你需要搞清楚这些工作的具体耗时。Extended test notation looks like this:(插入一幅图)
不同于在单次检定中获得所有你所需的成功度,长期检定允许你重复投骰并将所得成功度累计计算直到达到阈值要求,你可能因多种原因暂时中断这个过程,或是有另外的事需要你处理,或是人们开始朝着你开枪,或是你用掉了所有的骰子。请注意在长期检定的每次投骰中,你所获得的成功度都不能超过相应的界限(除非你打算使用极限点绕过界限;see p. 56)。单个长期检定中的时间间隔(interval)描述了在每次投骰之间经过的时长。间隔可短至一个战斗回合长至整月。表“Task Difficulty Threshold”提供了对于判定长期检定阈值的建议,而表“Extended Test Difficulties”可以帮助GM选择恰当的间隔(interval)。
长期检定并不能永远持续下去;角色的能力到某个时刻最终会达到极限,其副作用可不是说笑的。为了模拟这种情况,在单次长期检定中每多投一次骰子,玩家都需要从骰池中移去一个骰子。最终当其无骰可投时,则检定结束。
通常单次长期检定的所有骰子没有必要同时投出。暗影狂奔者可以将工作暂时搁置,干些别的,然后回头继续处理这件留下了不少成功度且原本应当做完的工作。
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Extended tests
Rather than taking place in a single moment, some tests take place over time. Maybe you’re taking a few days to learn a new spell or you’re repairing your beatup Americar and you need to determine how long the job takes. Extended test notation looks like this:
Instead of obtaining all of the needed hits in a single roll, Extended tests allow you to make repeated rolls and then accumulate the hits you made in each roll until you either reach the threshold, you run out of time because there’s something else you need to do or because people start shooting at you, or you run out of rolls. Note that on each roll of the Extended test, you can only count the hits equal to or under the applicable limit (unless you decide to use Edge to get around the limit; see p. 56). The interval for an Extended test describes how much time passes between each roll. Intervals can be as short as a Combat Turn or as long as a month. The Task Difficulty Threshold table provides some suggestions on thresholds for Extended tests, while the Extended Test Difficulties can help gamemasters choose the proper interval.
Extended tests cannot last forever; at some point,characters reach the limit of their abilities, and further efforts will do them no good. To simulate this, with each successive roll on an Extended test, players should remove one die from their dice pool. Eventually they’ll have no dice left, and the test will be over.
Generally, all of the rolls for an Extended test do not need to be made concurrently. Shadowrunners can set the task aside for a bit, do something else, then pick up where they left off with the amount of hits they had remaining in place.