Lokishadow
First Post
Okay, so I'm a dyed-in-the-wool oWoD player/GM. I was reading the thread on New Mage, and I noticed a lot of people hailing the "improved" rules of NWoD.
My question: some one please explain the new system to me! How is it better? As near as I can tell, it's actually WORSE...no more variable difficulties. Everything (with the rare exception) is Difficulty 8...i.e. you must roll and 8 or higher to get a success. Statistically, this makes no sense to me. That means you get 3 successes out of a 10 dice pool. Whee! I have to be a Olypmic Gymnast (Dex 5) with a Black Belt in Kung Fu (Brawl 5) to land a "completely successful punch," (3 successes) to use old rule descriptions.
So, in a nut shell, HOW does it work? No more soak rolls, no more variable difficulties (for those ridiculously easy actions that still carry a chance of failure).
The settings look really cool. I've like all the storyline concepts that I've seen in Vampire and Werewolf. Haven't seen Mage yet, but Old Mage was (is?) my favorite game system ever, hands down. Yeah, it took some time to get really competent, but it worked, and I had a solution to that. I've even adapted the rules set to run a kind of "White Wolf D&D."
So, how's your mileage with the new WoD?
YMMV
-Loki
My question: some one please explain the new system to me! How is it better? As near as I can tell, it's actually WORSE...no more variable difficulties. Everything (with the rare exception) is Difficulty 8...i.e. you must roll and 8 or higher to get a success. Statistically, this makes no sense to me. That means you get 3 successes out of a 10 dice pool. Whee! I have to be a Olypmic Gymnast (Dex 5) with a Black Belt in Kung Fu (Brawl 5) to land a "completely successful punch," (3 successes) to use old rule descriptions.
So, in a nut shell, HOW does it work? No more soak rolls, no more variable difficulties (for those ridiculously easy actions that still carry a chance of failure).
The settings look really cool. I've like all the storyline concepts that I've seen in Vampire and Werewolf. Haven't seen Mage yet, but Old Mage was (is?) my favorite game system ever, hands down. Yeah, it took some time to get really competent, but it worked, and I had a solution to that. I've even adapted the rules set to run a kind of "White Wolf D&D."
So, how's your mileage with the new WoD?
YMMV
-Loki