... I agree that dice pool isn't a good term, as that is normally used about systems where the number of dice depends on ability instead of difficulty. IIRC,...
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Peter Knutsen
peter_knutsen
Feb 1, 2010 9:02 am
... I'm reluctant to refer to my RPGs as being "dice pool" systems, both because it is inaccurate jargon (as per your description) and secondly because some...
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Raven Daegmorgan
greyorm
Feb 1, 2010 9:19 am
... I do as well. But...you know, "Find your best two" or "Find your worst two" isn't really that slow in play. Or at least I'm thinking not based on...
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Raven Daegmorgan
greyorm
Feb 1, 2010 9:21 am
... Variable drop system. Because you're dropping a number of either low or high dice for the result. - Raven...
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Torben AEgidius Mogen...
torbenm1
Feb 1, 2010 9:26 am
... I don't think it is too bad, as long as the number of dice doesn't get too high. Finding the highest or lowest in a set is faster than adding them and...
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Peter Knutsen
peter_knutsen
Feb 1, 2010 9:29 am
... It doesn't sound dangerously slow to me, but speed issues was my first thought. Sagatafl's mechanic is pretty fast after a little practice, but it could be...
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Peter Knutsen
peter_knutsen
Feb 1, 2010 9:38 am
... Hence my suggestion that Larry look into using pipped dice. ... I guess that was my concern as well. If it had just been "sum the best two" I wouldn't have...
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torbenm1
Feb 1, 2010 9:43 am
Inspired by the recent discussion, I came up with this idea for a dice-roll system: 1. You roll a number of d6 depending on your ability. 2. You remove the N...
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malckuss
Feb 1, 2010 12:11 pm
Chessex is a big seller in the US, too, due largely in part to games like Warhammer 40k. As I type this, a 36 count black block of their d6's sit in front of...
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Klaus Æ.
klaus_ae_mog...
Feb 1, 2010 2:07 pm
... So you will automatically fail miserably if your ability is equal to the difficulty, yet you can obtain maxium quality if your ability is just one higher?...
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torbenm1
Feb 1, 2010 4:19 pm
... The chance of getting the highest possible value on one remaining die would be pretty low. Even if difficulty is 1 and your ability is 2, the chance of...
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Frank Sronce
ubasti-dread
Feb 1, 2010 4:32 pm
I've used basically the same system before and it's decently fast. At least as fast as adding up all of X dice. Slower than a single die, of course, but I...
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Larry D. Hols
crkdface
Feb 2, 2010 3:59 am
Hallo, ... <snip> ... That's cool. The breakdown on the numbers looks usable. I thought of another roll system involving a subset of the dice rolled. I...
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Larry D. Hols
crkdface
Feb 2, 2010 4:02 am
Hallo, ... Five dice is the max rolled. Speed also isn't a major concern; this system is relatively simple and quick, which is what I wanted. It's fast enough...
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torbenm1
Feb 2, 2010 9:37 am
... To get the sum of the 2nd and 3rd highest, you can write sum least 2 largest 3 6d6 Change the 3 to 4 and 5 for the next two steps. Torben...
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Larry D. Hols
crkdface
Feb 3, 2010 4:33 pm
Hallo, A really interesting merger of computer technology and board games. I think it has an obvious application in RPGs, too. Unlike the tabletop display...
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symphony88ing
Feb 5, 2010 1:49 am
... Very Cool Torben! This system captures three things well: 1. Everyone pretty much has a basic degree of ability in any area, but 2. there are actions...
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symphony88ing
Feb 5, 2010 3:37 am
... You wrote that the ability would do well to be twice the difficulty, and I get the impression that a success-failure ratio of 50-50 is being used as a kind...
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torbenm1
Feb 5, 2010 10:42 am
... I was working with several degrees of success failure, so it is not so clear cut as a simple success/failure ratio. ... I don't think there is any single...
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Peter Knutsen
peter_knutsen
Feb 6, 2010 3:07 pm
On 05/02/2010 04:37, symphony88ing wrote: [...] ... [...] I'm extremely busy with various urgents things these days, so I can only throw this in as food for...
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Larry D. Hols
crkdface
Feb 7, 2010 4:14 am
Hallo, So I'm looking at action regulation right now--how action flows in game play, whether combat or other fast-paced action sequences, such as chases. I...
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ennobee
Feb 7, 2010 8:56 am
... If I understand the premise right, you are saying that when the difficulty level is equal or higher then the number of dice you have for that test/skill,...
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loki_29091974
Feb 7, 2010 6:35 pm
... I guess I don't need to tell you how envious I am of you having a copy of SP:G :) It's close to impossible to find. I managed to snag one of their SP:G...
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Larry D. Hols
crkdface
Feb 7, 2010 6:44 pm
Hallo, ... There are ways to adjust the odds without making any essentail changes in the mechanism. As it is, if a task is too difficult, there's no chance of ...
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Larry D. Hols
crkdface
Feb 7, 2010 7:30 pm
Hallo, ... Well, I bought it brand new from my FLGS shortly after it came out, all those years ago. No searching for it on my part--I just browsed the shelves...
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chris@...
christutty
Feb 7, 2010 11:26 pm
From: "Larry D. Hols" <tafl.hols@...> ... I used the same principle for a 'combat environment' skill (that I can't remember the name of) that each...
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Larry D. Hols
crkdface
Feb 8, 2010 5:39 am
Hallo, Check your Wave account. Larry...
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loki_29091974
Feb 8, 2010 8:20 am
... can't remember the name of) that each combat character picked up automatically *for the style of combat they were trained in*. This allowed the low level...
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torbenm1
Feb 8, 2010 8:51 am
... Even though the quality of result ranges from 1 to 6, this does not imply six levels of success. Low numbers are failures and high numbers are sucesses,...
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torbenm1
Feb 8, 2010 9:13 am
... If your main beef with these systems is that you never pause to take stock of the situation or regain breath, then a simple solution would be to give a...
