So my players, in session 2, discovered they could Assess to get +1 forward on Get the Job and Get Paid. It’s legit — after all, those scenes are tense scenes harboring a lot of secrets. And a 6- on Assess would certainly steer the scene in bad ways even if they roll 10+ to Get the Job / Get Paid. Keep in mind, they already have one of the PCs with the best Edge do the talking and make the Get the Job roll to start with.
But how do you all feel about that?
Pros:
Assess is appropriate given the secrets hiding in these scenes.
Assess can fail, leading to consequences as bad as or worse than failing the Get roll.
Cons:
If you have someone who’s really good at Assess, it’s commonly going to land a +1 on these scenes — they always move slow enough to give a character time to Assess, after all.
The flavor of the failed or 7-9 Get roll is so good! It’s sad to see it made vanishingly unlikely.
RAW: You could argue that Assess gives the acting character +1 forward, and Get Paid is a group roll, or even a meta roll, not a character’s action, like Get the Job is. So you COULD deny the Assess bonus on Get Paid. Should I?