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Hi folks,

The rules for pushing state (bullet points, column 2) that if you roll a one after pushing, you lose Hope. That makes sense to me (the rule, not the theme) but, the third bullet reads: "All dice count after the pushed roll, even dice not re-rolled". What does that mean?

If only ones rolled after pushing count as Hope losses, I'm confused by this final comment.

Thematically, losing Hope for pushing seems a little odd as you are increasing your chance for success. You could push a roll, get four sixes and two ones; your character would have achieved an amazing success but suffered crushing defeat. Odd.

Thanks in advance,

Mike

When you push, you re-roll all the dice that doesn't show a 1 or a 6. After the push all 1s will hurt you even those that you rolled before the re-roll and thus hasn't re-rolled.
It might not be so common to push a skill roll if one of the base dice is a 1 on the initial skill roll, but sometimes you need a success at any cost. If you got a 1 on the initial skill roll on one of the gear dice, that might be something more worth since that is just a sacrifice of a tool.
You push a skill roll only when you really need to succeed, not every single time you make a skill roll, just because of the risk.

Thanks for the feedback Fenhorn.

My confusion stems from the first two bullet points which read, "For each one rolled after a pushed roll, you lose one point of Hope". That indicates, to me, that ones rolled as part of the initial roll are not counted.

When you push, you re-roll all the dice that doesn't show a 1 or a 6. After the push all 1s will hurt you even those that you rolled before the re-roll and thus hasn't re-rolled.
It might not be so common to push a skill roll if one of the base dice is a 1 on the initial skill roll, but sometimes you need a success at any cost. If you got a 1 on the initial skill roll on one of the gear dice, that might be something more worth since that is just a sacrifice of a tool.
You push a skill roll only when you really need to succeed, not every single time you make a skill roll, just because of the risk.

Thanks...I've reread it (lots) and it now makes sense to my tiny mind. Much appreciated.