Rule of Cool....squared
Last night I was running some Deadlands at my local gaming store. I was running a prolonged dramatic task. I didn't even have a set number of successes for them, just a set number of turns. More about the action and creativity than the actual task.
One of the tasks was climbing some scaffolding that was damaged and on fire.
One of the players says, I'm going to do something stupid that will probably kill me.
I take my dynamite, put it under a large bucket and light it, blasting myself up and onto the platform.
OK, how do I begin to adjudicate that level of cool? Automatic success! I don't even know what to make him roll for that.
Then the next player followed up with Ammo Whammy, using the effect, Sacramento Surprise: This shot surges with POWER. This was a little more of a stretch, but it was the end of the night and once again, cool/ She had two guns and wanted to be Iron Man. Shooting both guns simultaneously to propel her up, each pair of shots pushing her ever higher. Once again, how do I say no to that?