Re: [SG] Close Assault Questions

Andy Cowell wrote:
>I've picked up Piquet, which has a somewhat similar sliding dice
>system.  It bottoms out at d4, but is open ended with d12 to d12+1,
>d12+2, etc...	Your maximum value is 12, however.
>
>An interesting unofficial variation I saw on a website was instead of
>d12+1, make it d12 with a re-roll (which, if you use, you have to
>keep; i.e., you get the last, not the highest).  d12+2 becomes up to
>two re-rolls, etc...  If you wanted, you could even do d4-1 where the
>opponent my re-roll once, etc...

We tend towards rolling a d12+d4 (d6, d8, etc.), counting only the
highest 
roll. This means that the offensive is not improved, but you avoid the 
lowest results, making the contest safer.

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