Do you (in the rules) increase the destinies of "something value---life or strength" by one? Or does it mean to gain one "of that something"--life or strength? Does it mean the "base value" goes up by one? Do you get an additional strength? If you have a base value of four lives, do you now increase to five lives (above your starting value)? If you have a beginning strength of 2, does that mean you now increase to three? Let's say you now have (after several battles) a strength of 5. Now, with the destiny card (involving strength), do you go up to six?

It seems like a simple answer, but two of my participants at the last convention could not figure out the answer.

Mr. Talisman

This is discussed here:

http://community.fantasyflightgames.com/index.php?/topic/124895-increasing-stat-values/

http://community.fantasyflightgames.com/index.php?/topic/124228-woodland-paths-that-increase-fate-value/

Basicly in it's simplest form, Strength or Craft Values Increase, thus the number on the character card goes up by one. Hence you count it immediately.

But for Life and Fate, you have to think of it differently, think of it as a gas tank. Your gas tank gets bigger, but the amount of gas does NOT increase, but it now can hold more. So the values go up, but the actual Fate and Life do not. They could be replenished or healed.

This is a very difficult thing to get your mind around at 1st. But once you do, its easier to understand. The gas tank analogy helped my group.