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Hi all,

I'm currently writing-up a character creation process for my Fudge RPG
and it's all finished except one part where the player picks a
"magical consequence" that goes off when the character uses magic. The
character creation is based on objective character creation but for
this step I wanted the players to randomly pick some actions and
variables from a table and use that to describe this magical
consequence, something like this:

Column #1: Limb, Head, Body, Nearby Objects
Column #2: Animal, Material, Impossible
Column #3: Remains depending on how powerful the effect, Remains for x
days, Until it grows back or dies off

So they roll on column #1, get "Limb" and then on column #2, get
"Material" and then finally on column #3 and get "Until it grows back
or dies off".
Which translates to "A characters Limb transforms into a Material and
remains Until it grows back or dies off".

The player could then say "My character's right arm, turns into a
silvery metal that peels off over time...".

My problem is I'd like to use Fudge dice to make the random roll as
throughout the rest of the system, it's all Fudge dice. 4dF rocks but
it isn't linearly random for this sort of purpose.

Any suggestions or am I looking at this all wrong?

Mark
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Wed Mar 9, 2011 9:53 am

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Hi all, I'm currently writing-up a character creation process for my Fudge RPG and it's all finished except one part where the player picks a "magical...
Mark Cunningham
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Mar 9, 2011
9:55 am

If you had three choices in each column, then it could be rolled on one fudge die. Simple. Using what you have below; Column 1: - = Body Part (see Body Part...
Rodney E. Barnes
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Mar 9, 2011
10:19 am

... <snip> ... That's one way of doing it. I'd have to restrict my choices to 3 though. I'd rather have more choices than fewer choices. Creates more wonderful...
Mark Cunningham
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Mar 9, 2011
10:56 am

Also don't forget that you can roll a d2 using fudge dice: Roll 1dF, reroll any zero: 50% +1 50% -1 Now we can simulate all the standard platonic dice: d4...
Mike Harvey
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Mar 9, 2011
2:58 pm

... Hi Mark, I'd just roll fudge dice of different colours, and make each die significant rather than adding them up. 2 dice give 9 options, 3 dice gives 27, 4...
Tim Hall
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Mar 9, 2011
10:36 am

... Ah! A sort of tri-imel system. That would work great I think and it can be quite visual, having the rows identified as "-1, -1", "-1, _", "-1, +1", etc....
Mark Cunningham
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Mar 9, 2011
11:12 am

If you look carefully at the 4dF probability table and "squint your eyes"... 18.519% +2 or more 19.753% +1 23.457% +0 19.753% -1 18.519% -2 or less ...
Mike Harvey
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Mar 9, 2011
2:40 pm

... I plugged that into AnyDice.com and got this http://anydice.com/program/620 I like to see these things in a graph to really visualise them, and it is...
Mark Cunningham
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Mar 9, 2011
3:44 pm

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Mark Cunningham ... So yeah, basically just remember that most die rolls are going to hit in the middle, so whatever you want...
Mike Conway
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Mar 9, 2011
3:55 pm

Hi Folks, I think Mike is making some great suggestions here. The 5dF seems reasonably flat. The bell curve could be taken advantage of as well. I am reading...
andrek
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Mar 10, 2011
4:06 pm
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