To one specific roll.
Example:

I need to hack that node.

I have hacking 4 and exploit 4 and an edge attribute of 4

If I spend 1 point of edge.... I get to add 4 dice to that ONE roll.

There are many ways to use edge for a test though, and not all of them involve rolling your edge in dice.


Edge is a very powerful stat in the game, having a few points in it can help in a pinch... or when you want to make the cool Hollywood style effects.

...like my boxer Hannah did when she loaded used her edge for one heck of a haymaker punch (I think with the exploding 6s, the final DV ended up to be something like 19 or 20). Yeah, she knocked his block off alright.

She knocked it off and gave it a one way flight to the next state.

That is still not bad. That gives an extra 2 dice to any skill test as needed. Or 2 dice to roll for a long shot test of the horridly almost not possible shots.

I try to have at least 2 edge on my characters... sometimes it does not happen, but it does help a ton. Get it to 4 or more and it can get scary.

Here is an example of what 8 edge can do to a game.

Stolen from Cain......

It's more like: '..what the Longshot Rule...'

And yes, it's completly broken.

A low Edge value doesn't necessarily make it an unimportant Attribute.

In another thread we figured out that if your dice pool is 2.5 times your Edge, use your point of Edge to reroll failures. If the dice pool is less than that breakpoint, add your Edge dice and reroll the sixes.

With your Edge of 2, it's likely the former case will predominate. Nevertheless, if you have a high dicepool, rerolling failures can get you a lot more hits.

...the way my GM described it, the guy was basically turned into a "life size pez dispenser", albeit with no candy.

Edge is still good in your area of speciality. Say you're rolling 10 dice, and get an average roll (10 successes). You can then reroll seven dice, which you would have needed Edge 7 to add in the first place. It just means you can't become good at everything by adding your Edge to things you have no skill in.

It gets worse when you're *not* on a Longshot test. You get exploding 6's then.

Mr. Lucky, in the last game he played in, had to take out a heavily armored troll. He has a base 20 dice to make the shot with, and was at -17 in penalties (mostly from a called shot to bypass the guy's armor, but it could be anything.) He added 8 dice, for a total of 11. With exploding 6's, that averages something like 6 successes, and I rolled well. At 6 successes, even a troll would be hard-pressed to soak all of that. Add in things like burst-fire, flechette ammo, and the like, and you can see how nasty it can get all at once.

One way to limit such blatant abuse (which in my book it would be if someone tried it witch such extreme situation) is to limit the maximum negative dicepool to Edge X2.

If the character has an edge of 8 and a attribute of 3 (and defaulting at -1) and dicepool modifier of -16 he would get a dicepool of -14. He can still roll 8D6 with his edge.

If he had an edge of 5 we would have a negative dicepool higher than edge X2 and will miss no matter what – even a longshot is limited in his luck.

No. A longshot test is a way to sidestep penalties at a certain point.
That's a problem of the Edge rules.

So what? A social Adept with 20+ dice in Negotiation could have convinced the troll to shoot himself - most likely without the use of Edge. At a base dicepool of 20+, most tests start to be pro forma.
That's not a problem of the Edge rules.