Concessions

From UTRPG

[edit] When you are allowed to offer a concession

• If you have not yet offered a concession, you may do so at any time.
• If you have already offered a concession, you may offer another provided that:
  1. Someone has taken a consequence since your last concession offer, and
  2. The narration of your concession references that consequence

[edit] Rejecting, modifying and adjudicating concessions

The sequence of steps in a concession is:

1. Character P offers a concession to character Q.
2. Q decides to accept the concession and go to step 7, or reject it and move to step 3.
3. Q decides whether to reject the concession unmodified (step 4) or to give P a fate point and offer a modification (step 5).
4. The table decides whether the rejected concession was fair, unfair or frivolous. If it was fair, Q gives P a FP. If unfair, no FP is exchanged. If frivolous, P gives the GM a FP. Go to step 8.
5. Q gives P a FP. P decides whether to reject the modification (step 6) or accept it as stated (step 7).
6. The table decides whether the rejected modification was fair or unfair. If it was fair, P gives Q's FP to the GM. If unfair, P keeps the FP. Go to step 8.
7. P narrates the Taken Out result according to the terms of the concession and modification (if any).
8. P narrates the failure of the concession attempt and remains in the conflict.

This is summarized in the following table:

Concession accepted	Modification accepted	FP flow	Taken Out
yes			yes
no (fair)		Q -> P	no
no (unfair)			no
no (frivolous)		P -> bank	no
conditional	yes	Q -> P	yes
conditional	no (fair)	Q -> bank	no
conditional	no (unfair)	Q -> P	no

[edit] Definitions

Fair (ant. Unfair)

A concession is fair when it proposes a clear Taken Out condition, such that the conceder has clearly lost the conflict. A modification to a concession is fair when it is in the spirit of the concession and still represents a benefit to the conceder over staying through the rest of the conflict.

Frivolous

A concession is frivolous when it has been offered in bad faith, e.g, to attempt to force a FP exchange rather than to end the conflict. Any frivolous concession is automatically unfair.