[freeroleplay] New Fringe Mechanic Take 2

[Ricardo Gladwell]

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 08:39 -0700, Troy Truchon wrote:
> On 7/11/06, Ricardo Gladwell <president at freeroleplay.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 01:05 -0700, Troy Truchon wrote:
> > > I like the idea of better representing failure, but is there a way to
> > > do this without adding more rolls?
> >
> > You don't have to roll twice using the above mechanic: you can simply
> > get two coloured groups of dice, decide one colour represents successes
> > the other failures and roll them at the same time without needing to
> > roll twice.
> 
> Well yes, but you do have to roll more dice.

More than what in comparison? I don't think the system necessarily has
any more dice to roll than, say, the traditional dice pool systems you
favour. They are both done in one roll (of several die).

> While just putting more dice on the table seems a bit kludgy I do like
> the simple honesty of the system.

Doesn't seem kludgy to me. If anything, rolling the two dice pools seems
a lot cleaner and tidier than traditional dice pool systems. It means
you can do away with difficulty altogether: just add die to the failure
pool instead! Players can instantly see whether they succeed or fail.

Kind regards...

-- 
Ricardo Gladwell
President, Free RPG Community
http://www.freeroleplay.org/
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