Re: [SG] Bell Curve, was Re: Oerjan Dreams

I have a comment...

The idea of repeatedly rolling 1 (or more) dice to resolve a single
situation
reminds me of a minor flaw in Avalon Hill's old Squad Leader game...

I liked it...very interesting game.
Only one thing I didn't like...which seemed to come up often in our
games.
Rolling multiple "Supressed" results on the same unit after a single
attack.

An example:
Side A has one squad, with a heavy weapon in the upper story of a
building,
positioned to fire down a road.  And another squad positioned to fire
down the
same road.  Side B desides he has to move a squad across that road. 
Ov-course
that moving unit comes under fire from both of Side A's units.
This situation could generate 2-4 supressed results (depending on how
the rolls
go).

Then Side B has to reroll for every supressed result.  If there is more
that
one squad in that hex, this gets to be a pain!

Why not just add a factor for each extra supressed result after the
first, and
make a single roll.  It is faster this way...

Donald Hosford

Ground Zero Games wrote:

> >> >3) Tom Barclay suggested a solution here: let level-X armour roll
> >XD12
> >> >instead of 1D12*X.
> >
> >St Jon said:
> >> If I can jump in here (having watched the discussion with
interest....
> >> <grin>), this is something that I'm seriously considering using for
> >FMA,
> >> 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...?
> >
> >I was rolling 22 dice per NSL capital ship a few days ago, no
problem.
> >Certainly gave a lot better feel than rolling 1d6 and multiplying by
22
> >would have.	I don't see why that wouldn't be the same in SG.
>
> My worry is that it means that in some cases you could need five (or
more!)
> of EVERY die type per player, or else you'd be re-rolling  the same
dice
> and trying to remember the scores you rolled (or even worse, having to
> write them down!) - something I tried really hard to avoid. In FT is
is a
> bit different because it's just a handful of D6, and everyone has
loads of
> them. If everyone agrees that it won't be a problem, however, I'll
probably
> go with it.
>
> Jon (GZG)