Automatic success/failure

[Jdvn1]

Yes, I did mean for it to be monodirectional. And yup, you can't get exactly either a 20 or a 1, but then, you couldn't really get a 20 or a 1 under the other system, either, since they were just abstracted as auto-results.

Well, true. World Tree doesn't have crits, they have ... I forget the term they use. Each weapon has an extra damage bonus. For every 10 points you roll above the enemy's defense, you deal extra damage. A crit/auto-result system is more simple.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Well, true. World Tree doesn't have crits, they have ... I forget the term they use. Each weapon has an extra damage bonus. For every 10 points you roll above the enemy's defense, you deal extra damage. A crit/auto-result system is more simple.

I don't like auto-success on 20 because I don't think that a shaky, epileptic peasant-child wielding a wooden stick nonproficiently at -8 should have the same chance to hit the AC 42 Gold Dragon as a Level 11 Fighter with +21 to attack.

 

[Bryan898]

Yes, but think it Skill's did have auto-success or failure. A commoner would have a one in twenty chance of launching himself into orbit with Jump .

 

[Jdvn1]

I don't like auto-success on 20 because I don't think that a shaky, epileptic peasant-child wielding a wooden stick nonproficiently at -8 should have the same chance to hit the AC 42 Gold Dragon as a Level 11 Fighter with +21 to attack.

I think the AC 42 Gold Dragon disagrees.

 

[Jdvn1]

Yes, but think it Skill's did have auto-success or failure. A commoner would have a one in twenty chance of launching himself into orbit with Jump .

... And that's why the population is so low...

 

[Rystil Arden]

I think the AC 42 Gold Dragon disagrees.

The Dragon is happy--he likes telescoping dice rolls because it doesn't give the Fighter a better chance to hit, but it gives the child a worse chance to hit

 

[Rystil Arden]

Yes, but think it Skill's did have auto-success or failure. A commoner would have a one in twenty chance of launching himself into orbit with Jump .

And you could pay 50 Schmoes to go gather information about the super-secret dark mystery that nobody except one man knows (DC 50) and the chance of not learning it after one day would be low.

 

[diaglo]

Yes, but think it Skill's did have auto-success or failure. A commoner would have a one in twenty chance of launching himself into orbit with Jump .

this so reminds me of the gun rules in 2ed.



every time you rolled a 10. you added another % to damage....

potential to do infinite damage... although, infinitely impossible to roll.

 

[Jdvn1]

The Dragon is happy--he likes telescoping dice rolls because it doesn't give the Fighter a better chance to hit, but it gives the child a worse chance to hit

If the epileptic peasant-child has a stick that can by pass the Gold Dragon's DR, the child probably is probably deceptively powerful anyway.

 

[Jdvn1]

this so reminds me of the gun rules in 2ed.



every time you rolled a 10. you added another % to damage....

potential to do infinite damage... although, infinitely impossible to roll.

That would be a very long gaming session.