 More successes with low skills |
 Jan 19 2004, 04:34 PM
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Does anyone have a good, simple, unbalancing house-rule on increasing the number of successes for low skill characters?
The situation I'm looking at is where Joe has a skill of 2 or 3, but wants/needs (for whatever reason) 4 successes. Currently, even with a TN of 2 a skill of 2 is never going to achieve 3 successes and that doesn't seem entirely right to me. I saw a method once where for each die that came up double the base TN was treated as an additional success - in this example a 4 would count as 2 successes, an 8 as 3, a 16 as 4 etc... (As an aside, this would also have the advantage of meaning that someone with very low skill has at least a small chance of staging up damage in combat) Something like that would be good - but it would quickly get unmanageable with greater numbers of dice and there are certain situations where I probably wouldn;t want it to apply (although I can't think of any it seems likely there would be). Any thoughts? |
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Xirces More successes with low skills Jan 19 2004, 04:34 PM
Austere Emancipator I give an additional success for every 6 by which ... Jan 19 2004, 04:50 PM Diesel I do it for every 10 the die exceeds it by, making... Jan 19 2004, 05:01 PM Sphynx Simplest rule is to let a success be a success.
S... Jan 19 2004, 05:30 PM Shockwave_IIc Actually with the exception of combat. The next m... Jan 19 2004, 05:36 PM Austere Emancipator QUOTE (Shockwave_IIc)The next most frequent and ne... Jan 19 2004, 05:48 PM Kagetenshi I typically give an extra success for every 12 the... Jan 19 2004, 06:07 PM Tanka QUOTE (Kagetenshi) I typically give an extra succe... Jan 19 2004, 06:11 PM Austere Emancipator Every 1296th die will come up as 25 or more, so to... Jan 19 2004, 06:16 PM spotlite I've seen plenty of examples in printed advent... Jan 19 2004, 06:17 PM Xirces The main areas I'd want to use it are combat, ... Jan 19 2004, 06:30 PM moosegod By the rules, yes he either succeeds or takes an h... Jan 19 2004, 06:31 PM Kagetenshi The karma for +24 thing was dependent on player co... Jan 19 2004, 06:56 PM Talia Invierno Granted, we've added a Social Pool option, but... Jan 19 2004, 07:03 PM Diesel Social pool...?, and damn Kag, my group wants that... Jan 19 2004, 08:00 PM Talia Invierno IN + CH / 2 , for use with any CH-based skill. Jan 19 2004, 08:07 PM Backgammon We use double successes (not always, depends how g... Jan 19 2004, 10:23 PM Rev QUOTE (moosegod) By the rules, yes he either succe... Jan 19 2004, 10:30 PM Siege If your character needs more successes, (s)he prob... Jan 19 2004, 11:32 PM mfb i typically allow characters to spend karma to per... Jan 19 2004, 11:36 PM Siege QUOTE (mfb) i typically allow characters to spend ... Jan 19 2004, 11:38 PM OurTeam When it is important, a character can of course us... Jan 19 2004, 11:56 PM GoldenAri If you've got 3 dice and need 4 successes use ... Jan 20 2004, 12:06 AM Shockwave_IIc QUOTE (GoldenAri) it comes back at the end of the ... Jan 20 2004, 12:07 AM GoldenAri I do have a question about the social pool. When ... Jan 20 2004, 12:09 AM GoldenAri QUOTE Only if your Gm lets it. Frequently you get... Jan 20 2004, 12:10 AM Siege QUOTE (GoldenAri) I do have a question about the s... Jan 20 2004, 12:11 AM OurTeam QUOTE (GoldenAri @ Jan 19 2004, 04:06 PM) You... Jan 20 2004, 01:17 AM GoldenAri Well, isn't that just crap-tastic. I've a... Jan 20 2004, 01:28 AM Rev QUOTE (Siege) QUOTE (GoldenAri @ Jan 20 2004,... Jan 20 2004, 01:28 AM mfb just have it refresh at the same rate as kp. Jan 20 2004, 11:07 AM Talia Invierno We've refreshed it using a rough "scene... Jan 20 2004, 04:07 PM Siege How often do you throw large amounts of dice in So... Jan 20 2004, 10:25 PM Tiralee QUOTE How often do you throw large amounts of dice... Jan 21 2004, 01:30 AM Talia Invierno Using a Shadowbeat (hostile interview) template al... Jan 21 2004, 03:00 PM spotlite A social pool! I wrote some rules for somethin... Jan 21 2004, 06:01 PM
Bölverk QUOTE (spotlite)A social pool! I wrote some ru... Jan 21 2004, 10:01 PM  |
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