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<blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 8238682" data-attributes="member: 6669048">I can't speak for CubicsRube, but I'm the same way. It just feels wrong to go &quot;I rolled a 1!&quot; with excitement. Mentally I know the statistics are the same either way. I know that I have the same probability of rolling a 1 as a 20 and it's an arbitrary distinction. I know all that.But it still feels wrong to want to roll low and lament rolling high. It goes against everything I know about RPGs, likely because I never played much CoC or Hero or GURPS or other roll-under systems. I grew up playing Shadowrun, Vampire, MechWarrior, WEG Star Wars, etc. I didn't even really get into D&amp;D until way later when 3rd Ed came out and everything was roll-over.I can push through it and play a system that's roll-under, but it's never going to be a system I really get into just because I'm trained to want to roll high and I'm always going to have that initial half-second gut feeling of &quot;Crap!&quot; when I roll low before my brain kicks in and says &quot;No, that's good in this system&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Abstruse, post: 8238682, member: 6669048"] I can't speak for CubicsRube, but I'm the same way. It just feels wrong to go "I rolled a 1!" with excitement. Mentally I know the statistics are the same either way. I know that I have the same probability of rolling a 1 as a 20 and it's an arbitrary distinction. I [I]know [/I]all that. But it still feels wrong to want to roll low and lament rolling high. It goes against everything I know about RPGs, likely because I never played much CoC or Hero or GURPS or other roll-under systems. I grew up playing Shadowrun, Vampire, MechWarrior, WEG Star Wars, etc. I didn't even really get into D&D until way later when 3rd Ed came out and everything was roll-over. I can push through it and play a system that's roll-under, but it's never going to be a system I really get into just because I'm trained to want to roll high and I'm always going to have that initial half-second gut feeling of "Crap!" when I roll low before my brain kicks in and says "No, that's good in this system". [/QUOTE]

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