Dramatic Tasks: Remove a success on Critical Failure?

In SWADE, the Dramatic Task rules state the following:

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Characters are dealt Action Cards as usual during a Dramatic Task. Those attempting the task make relevant skill checks and get a Task Token for each success and raise. Failure means no progress and a Critical Failure reduces progress by one (if there are any).

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Most of this is fine, except for the Critical Failure option. It doesn't allow the GM to remove an existing success, and it doesn't recognize that a Critical Failure gives -1 success.

Is this a bug, or is there a way of handling these that I'm missing?

How are you tracking the Dramatic Task, walk me through step by step if you can. I used the 'Manual Dice Entry' feature to simulate a Critical Failure and it removed one success.

Put a player on the CT, right click them and select dramatic task.

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Originally Posted by YggBjorn

How are you tracking the Dramatic Task, walk me through step by step if you can. I used the 'Manual Dice Entry' feature to simulate a Critical Failure and it removed one success.

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I was able to simulate this using the Manual Dice entry:
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On round 1, the character got one Success, but on round 2, got a critical failure. So the character should now have 0 Successes. Instead, it shows 1, even after Resolving the roll.

You are right. I can't recreate the result I had last night, so I must have done something wrong or not paying attention. I was kinda tired. Personally I create a note and just track it by hand. If the player gets a club I just remind them of the -2 modifier and make them use the modifier box if they decide to attempt something.

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Originally Posted by YggBjorn

You are right. I can't recreate the result I had last night, so I must have done something wrong or not paying attention. I was kinda tired. Personally I create a note and just track it by hand. If the player gets a club I just remind them of the -2 modifier and make them use the modifier box if they decide to attempt something.

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Fair 'nuff, but I think it warrants a bug report anyhow. Thanks!

Agreed! I would like to see an overhaul of the Dramatic Task system, however I realize that is a large task and I think there is only one person, Ikael, working on the Savage Worlds ruleset for SWADE.