quick contests

Most abilities that can affect an unwilling subject offer the subject an attempt to resist using an attribute, skill, or supernatural ability. This is sometimes a Quick Contest between the attacking ability and the defender’s resistance, in which case two special rules apply: The attacker must succeed to win. He cannot win by having

The amount by which the winner beat the loser is often important – success by 5 vs. failure by 5 generally means more than success by 2 vs. success by 1! The winner’s “margin of victory” is the difference between his margin of success and the loser’s margin of success if both succeeded, the sum