Trimph vs. Despair

By Mike1977, in Star Wars: Edge of the Empire RPG

Do they cancel each other out?

They do not cancel their Triumph and Despair specialty results. They would cancel one another when used as Successes and Failures.

The Success part of a Triumph can be canceled by a Failure. The Failure part of a Despair can be canceled by a Success. However, the Triumph and Despair parts cannot be canceled.

After a year and a half of this game we finally had that result twice this week. Nothing too exciting came out of those rolls for our group, one was a crit and ran out of ammo at the same time, but it was somewhat commical to see our party go all three stooges with the Despairs.