I want to add the management of dice pools to my homebrew scifi rpg that I'm creating. I like the idea of splitting dice between attack and defense or for...
... Both my current homebrews are XdY (one is Xd6, the other is Xd12 - my very first homebrew was 3d6), what most people would call "dice pool" systems, but I...
... I never liked the "ones cancel successes" part. You get the same average (0.3 per dice) by letting the target number be 8, the main difference is that the...
... I'm thinking ... I think the new WOD Storytelling System is a great improvement over the last incarnation. I also suggest Shadowrun (of which WOD was based...
Design goals: a)Allow for fine distinctions between characters, something most dice pool systems do poorly. b)Roll a lot of dice (fun!) but not too many...
A couple of comments before we delve too deeply into the math. If 20 is the professional skill level, do we expect characters with important skills much below...
... I figure a 'trained professional' would be at a total of 40. I am also assuming that every ten points represents an effective doubling of general skill, so...
Hi, Lizard; some comments: Why roll what you call d5 (actually d6-1)? If you raise difficulty numbers by 1 and roll normal d6s, you get precisely the same...
Hey Lizard, Just a quick question. Why do you use 1d5 (1d6 read 6 as 0). I'm using a similar dice mechanic, not limited to d6, but generally using 0 as the ...
... On what measure? When is someone twice as good as another person at something? Do you mean that every 10 skill points represent a doubling of the time...
I have found that instead of basing a setting or system entirely on a book or specific existing setting I tend to "borrow" interesting bits for different ...
Long ago, I was talking to some people at Chasosium. This was back in the day when they were adapting dozens of books into games. You might remember some of...
Last year, in the Danish movie newsgroup, Quentin Tarantino's movie "Jackie Brown" was discussed. It stars the former blacksploitation movie star (1970's) Pam...
I took a physical anthropology class that discussed the issue of race some. Please keep the comments in the context that I am a mechanical engineer and not a...
... Actually, you have hit upon the nub right here. Racial categorization is exactly "confusing and illogical" because there is no agreed-upon objective...
... As an aside, I was about to say that this is not likely, as there is significant selection pressure for different skin tones at different latitudes. Then I...
... I'm not entirely sure I understand what you're saying. I agree that you need to have a good group template, so if some players are playing dragon riders,...
... I've heard David Suzuki, a Canadian geneticist, say that the concept of race is 'scientifically meaningless' because there can't be such a classification....
... It's certainly genetically meaningless. You could reasonably divide folks up by genotype, but it wouldn't look anything like the current "races". Kiz...
... I didn't know David was a geneticist. Scientist, yes, but I thought (based mostly on the slew of TV shows he's been in/hosted/written) that he was an...
... Originally a geneticist IIRC, then took over hosting Nature of Things, eventually became well known as an environmentalist, but I'm not sure when that...
... I know. But race does exist as a cultural phenomenon, a set of expectations that people have of each other. It also exists as an identification method....
... Interestingly, Australian Aborignees look fairly "negroid" to me. Then again, I've never looked closely. Besides, the work of the anthropologists isn't...
... Yes, even more so if some kind of superscience, or esoteric techniques (yogic metabolism control, although I don't actually think I want yogic metabolism...
... A couple of college friends from Hong Kong once wondered in my presence what Westerners could possibly mean by "oriental" -- they were surprised we...
Who knows KATANA, I heard that it is a RPG game in China? My friend said it is not bad, and I also want to have a try. However, I can¡¯t find it on the ...
... Two of the top three Google hits for "katana online" are from MMORPG blogs. You can probably find information about it there. The setting is Japanese,...
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