Editing Unwritten: System Reference Document/Playing a Scene (section)

=====Overcome=====

;If you fumble...
:Choose one of the following:
:* Describe how you fail to overcome the situation at hand. 
:* Succeed at a serious cost. Work with the GM to determine the cost, then describe how you succeed and how the cost affected the success.

;If you tie…
:Choose one of the following:
:* Describe how you fail to overcome the situation at hand. 
:* Succeed at a minor cost. Work with the GM to determine the cost, then describe how you succeed and how the cost affected the success.

;If you succeed...
:Describe how you overcome and obtain your goal.

;If you excel...
:Describe how you overcome and obtain your goal particularly well or with flair. Receive an appropriate boost to reflect how well you did in overcoming the action.

An obstacle that has been overcome successfully is no longer an obstacle for that character. Unless the situation changes, you should not have to overcome the obstacle again and again. For example, if you have managed to get across the menacing chasm in your way, you shouldn’t have to roll overcome every time you come to it again; overcoming it is no longer interesting. But if there was a earthquake, or someone has been tampering with the rope bridge you set up, it may be time for another overcome action.