That's sort of already in there, as taking a consequence is one of the costs if you succeed at a major cost. Of course, that's slightly better than getting a bonus from the consequence.

Sure, this just kind of codifies it a bit more, and suggests just how much of a Consequence you'd need to take.

How it intersects with SWS is a different question.  It also opens up a few things - on an attack, you could choose to burn a Major Consequence and declare "yeah, I allow his counter to hit me as I sacrifice my body to land the killing blow."  Which seems like an awfully common fiction-type thing to happen.

Just kind of thinking it through, I'm not even sold on it being a super-awesome idea yet.

I really like that idea. I may steal it for...a project, yeah.

Actually if you use that rule in combat it would alter things a bit...I mean they get hit an a consequence normally mitigates stress. Now using this a consequence could change failure into success...

Isn't it part of the fractal? Kind of?

Let's take my favorite example, the thief and the lock, and look at it from the locks point of view. If you only have an overcome action from the thief, the lock only sees the thief as a "one aspect, one skill" opposition. If you enter a challenge against the lock, the lock sees more of the thief, a few aspects, a few skills, maybe a stunt. Lastly, in a conflict, the lock sees the thief as the full character, aspects, skills, stunts, consequences.

So not having consequences in situations other than conflicts makes sense to me. The scene isn't too important, so I won't treat it as a full blown conflict, and this lesser importance of the scene sort of acts as plot armor for the character.


That being said, using them outside of conflicts will probably work just as well, though it will also make the heroes seem more vulnerable.

I used that to model paradox backlash for my Mage hack and it worked pretty well, we thought.

The "take a Consequence and get a bonus to a roll" thing from the OP is already in the Toolkit on page 60.

Extreme Effort. 

Kinda seems like to can use consequences anywhere In the system as they are aspects. And there's no reason why an overcome couldn't cause stress to the person for example a half giant forcing open a portcullis could still take stress equal to a certain amount of shifts below the target. isn't something like that in the rules already?

Well, thanks +Aaron Schwarz.  I guess it wasn't as dumb of an idea as I thought.

The downside is that it also was nowhere as unique of an idea as I thought.  C'est la guerre!