One of my players brought up an interesting question which gave me some pause. He was reading the Core Rules and looked at the entry for the Medicine Skill. He closed the book and then said:

"Ok this might seem a little odd. In the book it says after you check to see if you succeed in healing someone you reduce the amount of wounds by the number of generated successes. Does that mean the total success you rolled, or the amount of successes left over after you have offset failures?"

I'll have to be honest, it's a legitimate question simply because the verbiage is fairly vague. What constitutes a "generated success?" I even went back and looked at the Beginner Game figuring it might be a little more clear, but even it uses the same language.

Thoughts? Maybe a rules clarification is in order?

Yancy

Probably net successes. That's how everything else works.

Net successes, otherwise why even have a difficulty?

CRB p. 12 is pretty clear, failures cancel successes and result is the net number of successes generated. It's very clear, a success is nothing if it is cancelled by a failure and is only a success if it is not canceled.

I understand that 2P51, but I get his point too. The text is over 100 pages removed from the entry you cited, so a reminder, or an example might have been helpful.

I always interpreted it as net successes, but I can see where the confusion might come from.

Yancy

Net successes. Those other successes were cancelled out and don't actually exist! IMNSHO, that is.

Look at it this way: If the check has a difficulty higher than Simple (no purple or red dice), it will be net successes (uncancelled), regardless of the nature of the check.

Everyone is correct [sip].

Well I look at is as the roll isn't generated until after the cancellations.