Re: To Dice or Not to Dice...

Binhan Lin wrote:
>The advantage/disadvantage is tat you can more accurately predict 
>results, i.e. cruiser vs. destroyer will generate exactly this result 
>this percentage of the time vs a more amorphous prediction with the 
>random factor added in.  Diceless systems tend to eliminate long shots 
>and I believe that games are more predicable.	Critical ammo explosions

>or mass decapitations become extinct.	I think that randomness adds a 
>little more flavor to a game system.  Think of all the games, history, 
>that a team/side/ country as "overcome" the odds and won a victory.

I agree.  I enjoy the true random element in a dice-based system.  I
tried a
diceless system once and became tired really fast of all the silly
lookup
tables.

Mike Miserendino