Re: Oerjan Ohlson's Wet Dreams

On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 23:06:04 +0000 Ground Zero Games <jon@gag.com>
writes:
<bigger snip>
>>3) Tom Barclay suggested a solution here: let level-X arm our roll 
>XVI
>>instead of 1DBL*X.
>
>If I can jump in here (having watched the discussion with interest....
><grin>), this is something that I'm seriously considering using for 
>FM A,
>with a possible retrofit to SG if it works; now, the main reason it 
>wasn't
>used in SG in the first place is that I didn't like the idea of having 
>to
>roll 5 dice (or 1 die 5 times) for an armour-5 target. What does 
>everyone
>else think about this? It's certainly a better probability system, but 
>is
>it too much die rolling or not...?
>
>Jon (GZG)

Jon, I am just a DS2 player currently (maybe FT or even SGII someday)
but
as a preferred - one die, one time, one result - old gamer (since 1959)
I
can tell you honestly that is about the maximum dice I would want to
roll
at a time.  Fortunately I have a lot of 'retired' D12 from my old D&D
game master days.

I am not familiar with SGII but the mechanic mentioned above is do-able
(now if you had TEN classes of armor.... no.)
Gracias, Triphibious/Glenn (first war game played 1959)
Triphibious Marines = Nektons.
Not all Frogs are French, or even Human!
Nektons, be all the Marine you can be!
Resistance is EVERYTHING!

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