<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=131631.msg6261228#msg6261228">Quote from: MadPanda on 11-05-2012, 16:00:22</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">'T'was the description of the pistol-induced burn marks that boosted that from an okay post to one that had enough oomph to earn Style.<br/><br/>Other ways to earn style are, of course, to play into your Foibles (and let me know you're doing it, just in case I don't spot it), observing Good Form, and generally being entertaining.  Should you ever fail a roll (outside of combat), you get a Training Point...and, if you describe the circumstances of your failure in a sufficiently entertaining fashion?  You get a Style die to go with it.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Ok cool. They arn't burns by-the-way. They're<em>stains</em>, in these kinds of fire arms about a third of the powder charge gets blown out the barrel and breach along with the musket ball rather then burning. That's where the huge clouds of dirty gray smoke come from. The<em>white</em>smoke you see in most movies and reenactments is based off an improved version of gunpowder that got introduced much later which burns better and which was much less inclined to randomly exploding.<br/><br/>So... if I'd failed to find the map for example I would have gotten a training point, but if I had fail to find the map and then described collapsing a section of book shelves so that I became buried and Mr. Valliant (summoned by the loud noise) entered to find me, under a pile of his master's priceless book with only one hand and wrist out and waving helplessly, and Naomi holding a bunch of knives (she was juggling them). Then that could be worth a training point<em>and</em>a style dice?