Hello,
first post here....
I was wondering on what your thoughts were on declining challenges to single combat? As far as I can see, this is the preferable option most the time, especially if you know the player challenging you has a good preator (and even if you don't know, you can make a good guess that if a player is throwing their weight about wanting to settle vendettas by single combat, well, they probably have a good champion...)
So, you lose the PP automatically, but you don't lose your preator.
If you accept, then odds are you'll lose anyway. So you still lose the PP and you lose the Preator.
Am I right in thinking you lose the same number of PPs in both cases?
It would be interesting to work out some rough estimates on chances on the results of preator v preator combat... (obviously there are a lot of factors at play here, so they'd be very rough).
Thoughts? What factors do you take into account when deciding if you're going to accept a challenge or not? What are the best manuscripts for upsetting things? Or is it just best to decline the challenge, then try and steal the preator for yourself... if you can't beat it, steal it!