Hi,

I have a task question that may have been covered in some Q&A somewhere or... maybe I am just dense.

If an MT Task is not Hazardous, Fateful, Uncertain or Safe, which is the normal case, the text says:

DOES THIS TASK INVOLVE ANY SPECIAL RISKS?
The basic task assumes the task requires the specified skills
to avoid an increase in difficulty. The task outcome is certain,
and the task involves a mild risk of mishap.

Later it talks about 'if a mishap occurs' and there are sections for Fateful, Uncertain, Hazardous or Safe impacts on if a mishap occurs (and they usually document what sorts of dice to roll on the mishap table).

However, I cannot find out what 'mild risk of a mishap' means in the bog-standard no modifiers case.

I do know that a roll of 2 produces a Fumble mishap (usually a fairly more dangerous mishap) but other than that, if you fail on a normal task, do you actually roll any sort of mishap? Perhaps a 1D or 2D mishap?

If the answer to that is "no" then why does the passage quoted above indicate that the default task resolution has 'a mild risk of mishap'? Is that strictly from the 3%-ish fumble mishap and none other?

I'd have thought (and always did think) you get at least 1D mishap if you blow your roll via exceptional failure, but I don't see that in the text.

Maybe this was meant to be obvious, but is fumbling (a natural 2 on the dice) the only way to have any sort of mishap in a non-fateful, non-hazardous failure?

I always thought anytime you had an exceptional failure, some sort of mishap roll was required. It could be I've had this wrong since the outset.

This came up when I was looking at the chances of a failure (even an exceptional failure) in MT jumps (they are about 1 in 12 with a +1 stat/+1 skill roll against a Routine 7+ tasks). I figured you'd get a mishap there, but maybe that'd only happen on a natural 2 (1 in 36 - 3%).

What do you do as far as mishap rolls go for a not-fateful, not-safe, not-hazardous bog standard task check that has failed or exceptionally failed?

TomB