<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=169721.msg7987226#msg7987226">Quote from: Datawych on 02-04-2013, 07:46:05</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Looking again, I think discipline might've dominated for Sunny's first series of rolls. The 5 from discipline and pain cancel each other out, but the 4 is from exhaustion. So the strength 5 from discipline beats the strength 4 from exhaustion, and the 5 from pain matches it. But the next-highest discipline roll is 4, and the next-highest for pain is 3. I could be wrong, but either way it wouldn't change the outcome, just the dominance.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>This one's a bit complicated, but it breaks down like this:<br/><br/>Discipline 5, 2, 4<br/>Exhaustion 4<br/>Pain 1, 2, 3, 5<br/><br/>The 5s in Discipline and Pain cancel out. The 4s in Discipline and Exhaustion also cancel out. That leaves the 3 in Pain, which is the high roll remaining.<br/><br/>If the Discipline dice had been 5,5,3, then Discipline would have dominated, because there's only one 5 in Pain.<br/><br/>Does that make sense?<br/><br/>UPDATE: although...upon re-re-reading the rulebook, it also looks as though we simply compare the highest strength of<span class="bbc_u">one</span>pool instead of counting all of them, in which case you'd be quite right.  And the example in the text isn't particularly helpful in this regard, as it's not at all ambiguous.<br/><br/>So here's what we'll do.  Because I didn't inflict any other consequences of that loss on Sunny, and because none of the results of Discipline dominating could have come into play, I'm going to leave things as they are.  Moving forward, I'll only count the highest strength in one pool.<br/><br/>Unless folks don't mind the GM overthinking the whole resolution process a bit.   :P  which is what probably happened here.