L. Marcus Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 3d6 gives too few outcomes for me. What would you choose: 4d6 or 3d8? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Why not go big and roll 5d20? 96 possible outcomes, as I figure it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Impractical, and too steep a bell curve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 How broad distribution's main hump do you need? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 About one third low, one third around the middle, and one third high. Actual spread ... well, 3d6 has about 1/3 of all outcomes on 10 and 11, while 4d6 has about that between 13 and 15. I'm toying with the idea of degrees of success: with 4d6 or 3d8, it'd be three steps per degree; that is, an outcome, after modification as per usual, of 13-15 would be Succes of Degree 0, 16-18 Degree 1, and so on. I picture in my mind a generic version of the Skill Rill tables from Rolemaster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Why is 3d6 bad? Do you want to lessen the impact of skill adds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 No, it's for a bit of a homebrew -- Hero, GURPS, FUDGE, WEG's d6 system, probably others ... Too little granularity for me, with 3d6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 I guess I'm asking what you want to accomplish. Do you want greater gradation in the magnitude of low-probability successes or failures? (I can imagine this if you want to differentiate "You blow your hand off" failures from "You blow your neighborhood up" failures, e.g.) Or do you want want to diminish the effects of skill adds, assuming that one skill add moves the final result by one in outcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 What I really want is a bit more differentiation between characters' abilities than in vanilla Hero, while keeping a bell curve and not rolling too many dice. DEX 8 and DEX 12 both have a 11- roll, while an Olympic gymnast "just" adds two to the roll. It's fine with the span of DEX you get in Super campaigns, but a bit constricting in Heroic and Normal campaigns. In the system I'm fiddling with, a "doubling" of, say, strength would be three pips, whilst under Hero, it's just one (or two, for Normal STR Damage). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Hmm. 3d12 almost exactly doubles everything compared to 3d6... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Tempting ... where would the middle third end up at? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 I'll work that out tomorrow. For the sake of domestic tranquility, I have to go wash dishes in the bathtub. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 Bubble bath! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 Bubble bubble, toil and trouble ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 Nothing so interesting. Just dishes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 I'll work that out tomorrow. For the sake of domestic tranquility, I have to go wash dishes in the bathtub. You should cross-post this to the "Quote of the Week from My Life" thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 I didn't actually say it; I just posted it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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L. Marcus Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 It's counted as an utterance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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