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Dragonbane general thread
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johnmarron
Explorer
I wasn't going to get the fancy versions, but I ended up with a deluxe copy of Path of Glory after Gencon, so of course I had to get the matching rulebook and bestiary...
Bill Zebub
“It’s probably Matt Mercer’s fault.”
Yup, makes total sense to me.
overgeeked
Open-World Sandbox
That’s Gizma from the series of novels. They’re only in Swedish. The Swedish Dragonbane site has the four main characters as downloadable pre-gens and someone translated them.
Relax
Explorer
Would having it be whoever rolls the furthest under their skill or stat work? That way if it's 7 vs 17 and the rolls are 2 and 11, the 11 would win because it's 6 below 17 and the 2 is only 5 below 7. This way you're still trying to roll as low as possible but the higher skill will still win out the majority of the time.
Bill Zebub
“It’s probably Matt Mercer’s fault.”
The higher skill will still win the majority of the time.
mamba
Legend
the question is more how much the lower skill benefits from the current rule if both succeed
Bill Zebub
“It’s probably Matt Mercer’s fault.”
I know, but it's a question that sounds important but isn't.
Here's a thought experiment:
First, imagine two players each have a skill of 10. Here's all 400 possible scenarios:
Blue's roll is on the left, Orange is on the top. Blue cell means blue wins, orange cell means orange wins. A win is either because you succeeded and the other failed, or because you both succeeded but you rolled lower.
Now Blue gets an extra point of skill. The whole table remains the same except for the row where Blue rolls exactly 10:
The red cells (and all the orange cells above the red line) are the scenario people are worried about: they both succeed, but Orange (with the lower skill) rolled lower, so orange wins. And, yes, Orange gets 9 new cells where they win with the lower roll even though the other succeeds, whereas previously they each had an equal number, so technically "if both succeed, it is more likely that Orange wins". But notice that if Blue had not gotten an extra point, and Blue had rolled exactly 10 and Orange had rolled 1-9, Orange would have won anyway. So nothing has actually changed.
But then we have the green cells! Those are brand new and different. Those are cells where previously both lost, but now Blue wins the match.
So when Blue gets a new skill point, he has more new ways to win, but Orange does not get any new ways to win.
mamba
Legend
sure, if you get a skill point, you increase your chance of winning.
The question is more if Orange already has too high a chance to begin with, because they are favored by the rules
