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franz101 reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread Why Blades in the Dark feels less swingy than d20 – and why the bell curve (and variance) aren't the main reason with
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Oh, sorry....I was straying off of the specific topic of how BitD "feels" and just addressing the math more generally. -
franz101 replied to the thread Why Blades in the Dark feels less swingy than d20 – and why the bell curve (and variance) aren't the main reason.I agree that swingy can mean "uncertainty about the outcome", and yes – bell curves make middle results more likely, which reduces...
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franz101 replied to the thread Why Blades in the Dark feels less swingy than d20 – and why the bell curve (and variance) aren't the main reason.Thanks for the reply. I think we're talking past each other a bit. My point wasn't about binary success/failure or repetition reducing...
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franz101 replied to the thread Why Blades in the Dark feels less swingy than d20 – and why the bell curve (and variance) aren't the main reason.Good point – swingy can mean different things to different people, and you're right that for many the term is tied to "how likely is the...
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franz101 replied to the thread Why Blades in the Dark feels less swingy than d20 – and why the bell curve (and variance) aren't the main reason.Thanks for the reply – I think we're actually closer than it might seem.You're absolutely right that dice pools are not a monolith...
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franz101 reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread Why Blades in the Dark feels less swingy than d20 – and why the bell curve (and variance) aren't the main reason with Like.
Huh. Yeah, I can see that. Although I wonder if "some people walk away from the game" specifically because the partial successes feel...
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franz101 reacted to Artamo's post in the thread Why Blades in the Dark feels less swingy than d20 – and why the bell curve (and variance) aren't the main reason with Like.
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franz101 reacted to prabe's post in the thread Why Blades in the Dark feels less swingy than d20 – and why the bell curve (and variance) aren't the main reason with Like.
Blades in the dark calls them successes--in that graphic upthread, they're not in the "bad outcome" bundles--and tells the players they...
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franz101 reacted to prabe's post in the thread Why Blades in the Dark feels less swingy than d20 – and why the bell curve (and variance) aren't the main reason with Like.
Well, mixed outcomes almost never feel exactly like success to me, which means games that intentionally center that outcome in the...
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franz101 reacted to zakael19's post in the thread Why Blades in the Dark feels less swingy than d20 – and why the bell curve (and variance) aren't the main reason with Like.
Which is often that a “mixed success / success with complications / etc” feels worse then a failure somehow if posts on the internet are...
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franz101 replied to the thread Why Blades in the Dark feels less swingy than d20 – and why the bell curve (and variance) aren't the main reason.After thinking about it more, I realized my earlier description (d20 shift) was still imprecise. It’s not really that “the curve simply...
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franz101 reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread Why Blades in the Dark feels less swingy than d20 – and why the bell curve (and variance) aren't the main reason with Like.
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franz101 replied to the thread Why Blades in the Dark feels less swingy than d20 – and why the bell curve (and variance) aren't the main reason.Thank you for the graphic — it's excellent and shows exactly the kind of fixed templates I was talking about. What I find interesting...
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franz101 reacted to zakael19's post in the thread Why Blades in the Dark feels less swingy than d20 – and why the bell curve (and variance) aren't the main reason with Like.
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franz101 replied to the thread Why Blades in the Dark feels less swingy than d20 – and why the bell curve (and variance) aren't the main reason.Thanks for the reply. I think I wasn't clear enough in my original post.When I talked about the "rightward shift of outcome labels", I...