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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8322002" data-attributes="member: 42582">It depends where you set your boundaries.Using d10s (and just repeating/consolidating from above):If you set Total Failure as 7 or less, that will be 70% of 1-die rolls, about 20% of 2-dice rolls, less than 10% of 3-dice rolls, fewer than 1 in 200 4-dice rolls (but a bit more than 1 in 300), and about 1 in 5,000 5-dice rolls. If you set Mitigated Success at 15+, that will be about 20% of 2-dice rolls, nearly 65% of 3-dice rolls, and about 90% of 4-dice rolls. If you set Total Success at 20+, that will be 1% of 2-dice rolls, around 28% of 3-dice rolls, a bit more than 65% of 4-dice rolls, and close to 90% of 5-dice rolls.You can get a similar spread with d6s:If you set Total Failure as 4 or less, that will be two-thirds of 1-die rolls, one-sixth of 2-dice rolls, and a bit less than 2% of 3-dice rolls. It's fewer than 1 in 1,000 4-dice rolls, and impossible for 5-dice rolls. If you set it at 5 or less instead, that will be a bit over 80% of 1-die rolls, close to 30% of 2-dice rolls, less than 5% of 3-dice rolls, fewer than 1 in 200 4-dice rolls (but a bit more than 1 in 300), and fewer than 1 in 8,000 5-dice rolls. If you set Mitigated Success at 10+, that will be one-sixth of 2-dice rolls, a bit over 60% of 3-dice rolls, and about 90% of 4-dice rolls. If you set Total Success at 13+, that will be impossible with fewer than 3 dice, around 26% of 3-dice rolls, around 66% of 4-dice rolls, and just over 90% of 5-dice rolls.So I think changing from d10 to d6 has the effect of making it impossible rather than just extremely unlikely to get full success with 2 dice; also pushes the rate of Mitigated Success down a little bit for 2-dice rolls; and forces a choice about whether you want Total Failure to be a bit less likely, or a bit more likely, for one or two dice.</blockquote>

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