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Feshy
post Dec 9 2007, 09:09 PM
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The rule for including edge in a roll is that if the roll is a six, you re-roll that die, but still count a hit for that die.

The rule for a Glitch is that if half or more of the dice rolled are ones, it's a glitch.

Okay, let's say that with edge, I roll six dice. The result is as follows:

1,1,3,4,6,6

Admittedly, an unlikely roll. So far, so good. 2 hits, and it's not a glitch. The trouble is, I have to now reroll those two 6's, (but remember that they are hits.) When I do, the dice on the table look like this:

1,1,3,4,X,X, +2 hits.

The thing is, if even one of those two X's are a one, the test becomes a glitch -- this is because re-rolling the sixes doesn't add any extra dice to the check, it just adds (potential) hits. This, I assume, is why the book says to re-roll the dice, and not roll new ones or something. I've thus added a possibility of a glitch that did not exist for non exploding dice.

Is this interpretation correct? Or am I just being asinine? I suspect the later, but I wondered if others had any thoughts along these lines.
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- Feshy   Does using edge increase your chance for a glitch?   Dec 9 2007, 09:09 PM
- - Tarantula   Its ambiguous. I'd say the initial 6 dice rol...   Dec 9 2007, 09:16 PM
- - Irian   I would simply count the rerolled dice as "ne...   Dec 9 2007, 09:59 PM
- - Mercer   I kind of like the glitch interpretation. It prob...   Dec 9 2007, 10:00 PM
- - Karaden   I have to agree with the others that getting 6s wh...   Dec 10 2007, 03:23 AM
- - Zen Shooter01   Karaden has a good point about Edge as luck. If it...   Dec 10 2007, 03:37 PM
- - Prime Mover   Honestly I don't know the math but we so rarel...   Dec 10 2007, 04:06 PM
- - Karaden   The chances for a glitch are fairly small, and onl...   Dec 10 2007, 04:13 PM
- - Moon-Hawk   I'm just going to chime in with my 0.02Y that ...   Dec 10 2007, 04:47 PM
- - Mercer   The other side of glitching on exploding 6's i...   Dec 10 2007, 05:10 PM
- - Feshy   QUOTE With a 2 dice pool you only need a singe 1 t...   Dec 10 2007, 05:34 PM
- - Karaden   True, .8% is in fact qutie a bit more then .002%, ...   Dec 10 2007, 05:48 PM
- - Feshy   QUOTE (Karaden) True, .8% is in fact qutie a bit m...   Dec 10 2007, 06:10 PM
- - Feshy   I added support for the Cursed and Gremlins flaws ...   Dec 10 2007, 06:22 PM
- - Karaden   I'm actually supprised the odds of glitching a...   Dec 10 2007, 06:31 PM
- - Stahlseele   Ihe accident power or spell would be what i think ...   Dec 10 2007, 06:33 PM
- - Cain   QUOTE (Karaden) I have to agree with the others th...   Dec 10 2007, 07:06 PM
- - Tarantula   Karaden, gremlins/cursed make you need less 1...   Dec 10 2007, 07:06 PM
- - Feshy   QUOTE (Karaden) I'm actually supprised the odd...   Dec 10 2007, 07:08 PM
- - Karaden   *opens mouth, inserts foot* Oh, must have been re...   Dec 10 2007, 07:11 PM
- - DTFarstar   Gremlins 4 says "Dear God, please never shoot...   Dec 10 2007, 08:52 PM
- - Moon-Hawk   Of course, that also means that someone with Greml...   Dec 10 2007, 08:55 PM
- - Fortune   I would rule that you would always need at least o...   Dec 10 2007, 08:57 PM
- - Moon-Hawk   QUOTE (Fortune) I would rule that you would always...   Dec 10 2007, 09:04 PM
- - Tarantula   I'd agree with Fortune, at least one 1 is requ...   Dec 10 2007, 09:11 PM
- - Apathy   QUOTE (Tarantula) I'd agree with Fortune, at l...   Dec 11 2007, 01:35 AM
- - Fortune   Yes, but I just don't like the idea of automat...   Dec 11 2007, 01:43 AM
- - Mercer   Yeah, I'd say you have to at least roll a 1 to...   Dec 11 2007, 03:13 AM
- - Eryk the Red   If a player saw fit to buy Gremlins 4, I have no i...   Dec 11 2007, 05:48 PM
- - Stahlseele   i would have issues with automatic glitches . . es...   Dec 11 2007, 05:50 PM
- - Abschalten   I think it's important to remember that Gremli...   Dec 11 2007, 09:20 PM
- - Stahlseele   so in SR4 where even the mage has to deal with com...   Dec 11 2007, 11:26 PM
- - toturi   I have no problems with "auto-glitching...   Dec 12 2007, 02:59 AM
- - xizor   QUOTE (Abschalten) I think it's important to r...   Dec 12 2007, 03:55 AM
- - Zen Shooter01   The rarity of glitches makes them even rarer, by w...   Dec 12 2007, 06:08 AM


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