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I will die on the hill that all d20 systems are flawed and everything should be 3d6 or better instead. Except shadowrun, that's just crazy. Though, no compute
by dmoy 3y ago
I will die on the hill that all d20 systems are flawed and everything should be 3d6 or better instead. Except shadowrun, that's just crazy.
Though, no computer games use it (unless you squint really hard at ES1 & ES2)
- Semaphor 3y agoIs this a bad time to mention that SR 2e is my second favorite system? ;) FWIW, my group is currently playing Free League's Alien, which is very much not crunchy.
- aidenn0 3y agoRemind me, was it in 1e->2e or 2e->3e that they fixed the whole "Street sams get to empty their magazines before mages even get to act" in the initiative system? SR 3e is one of my top systems, fwiw but I only played like 2 sessions in 2e. My group is currently playing Fantasy Craft, which has a bit too much crunch for us. For the past 2 months I've had an idea for overhauling the battle system mulling around in my head.
- Semaphor 3y ago2 to 3 was a rather minor change, 1 to 2 and 3 to 4 were bigger
- itishappy 3y agoHave you checked out the Dominions series? It uses D6s and an "exploding dice" style where you reroll and sum every time you get a 6 resulting in a really interesting long-tailed distribution. https://illwiki.com/dom5/dominions-random-number https://illwiki.com/dom5/dominions-random-number Edit: The genre is more of a strategy game than an RPG.
- dmoy 3y agoI have not, but that looks pretty cool too
- nrclark 3y agoI've played some TTRPGs that have a d6-based system that I really like. The basic idea: you build your dice-pool out of only d6, roll it, and take the best single value that you rolled. Most player rolls use 2-3 dice, and the pool caps out at 5 dice. If your best value is 6, the result is "success with nothing bad". If it's 4-5, the result is "success with a consequence". If it's 3 or lower, the result is "failed with a consequence". Special-cases: a 0d6 dice-pool is rolled by rolling 2d6 and picking the worst value. And if two (or more) of your dice come up as 6, it's "success with an extra benefit".
- hnthrowaway0315 3y agoI want Adnd 2e back...
- Semaphor 3y agoMy introduction to TTRPGs was actually hackmaster which is a crazy game that licensed adnd1 and just made it insane, D10000 for a crit, chance of dying during character creation, and many other things. Loved it ;)
- hnthrowaway0315 3y agolooool for real? I need to check it out.
- Semaphor 3y agoTheir license expired, so you need to check out the old version, I think it was 4th edition (they started with that), it based on the very long running comic Knights of the Dinner table, which is also amazing