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It deliberately sets combat up as being "different" from other skills, and also sets things up that if a player wants their character to...

My biggest issue with Daggerheart (beyond worrying its themes are as prone to debate as those in Legend in the Mist) is one of tone and...

I’m playing around with a lower-“power” DH hack. I really like the Duality Dice / Hope / Fear / HP + Stress + Armor core, but I’d prefer...

It's always amused me that so many people talk about percentile-based systems as if they're somehow non-linear, or different from a d20...

That only changes things to the extent it changes the chance of succeeding at all (since failures don't do anything with the stunt die)...

Oh, NOW my math is wrong.... /sadface

Yeah, again, I'm not arguing this is a great way to do crits, just getting my hackles up about accusations that my math was wrong. :)

I’m not questioning your math, but the difference is that on a d20, the chance for a crit remains 5% whatever the target number is. By...

Check out the free pdf, watch some YouTube videos about it, and maybe go check out your FLGS to see if anyone is running a game you...

Check out their free starter PDF?

It's much less so than 4e for sure. There is a free version you can test.... Though it isn't complete, obviously.

AGE (sort of) does exactly this, granting a number of Stunt Points (SP) for rolling doubles. You get the number of SP showing on the...

Worth noting that AGE sort of hacks 3d6 to have a system for more common "crits" by creative use of both doubles and degrees of success...

Sure. Again, I was responding to a specific comment. The Marvel game uses a 3d6 pool, but only one (the marvel die) determines a...

I agree with this. As I said upthread, it's one reason I'm deeply skeptical of companies that port their system to every genre...