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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8322175" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Huh. Thank you.It looks like d6s require shorter &quot;bands&quot; of results, as well. That could be a good or bad thing, as a style choice. A very short ladder works very well for pbta games, but those games don't tend to feature much numerical/statistical improvement over time. The spread you have there works pretty well. 1 die only happens when you are unskilled at a thing, or have 1 rank and a penalty (or more ranks and a severe penalty, but that is probably going to be rare). 2 dice is 1 rank, so the lowest that total success could be would be 12, I think. That results in 99% total success at 5 ranks. Of course, rolling nothing but 1's and 2's happens. I've seen it happen when someone casts fireball in dnd, when rolling for stats, etc, enough to not discount it. Part of the reason I chose rank dice rather than rank bonuses is that you always have the ability to totally fail. Thing is, at 5 ranks, total failure has to be 6 or less for that to even be possible, and that would make it literally impossible when unskilled. Okay, yeah, I think that d10's work better than d6's. Since I don't work for a few hours yet, I'm going to tinker with things like d12+d6 rank dice, just for fun. It feels pretty good in The One Ring, but the One Ring also has special pips on the d12 and the d6s that mess with probabilities.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8322175, member: 6704184"] Huh. Thank you. It looks like d6s require shorter "bands" of results, as well. That could be a good or bad thing, as a style choice. A very short ladder works very well for pbta games, but those games don't tend to feature much numerical/statistical improvement over time. The spread you have there works pretty well. 1 die only happens when you are unskilled at a thing, or have 1 rank and a penalty (or more ranks and a severe penalty, but that is probably going to be rare). 2 dice is 1 rank, so the lowest that total success could be would be 12, I think. That results in 99% total success at 5 ranks. Of course, rolling nothing but 1's and 2's happens. I've seen it happen when someone casts fireball in dnd, when rolling for stats, etc, enough to not discount it. Part of the reason I chose rank dice rather than rank bonuses is that you always have the ability to totally fail. Thing is, at 5 ranks, total failure has to be 6 or less for that to even be possible, and that would make it literally impossible when unskilled. Okay, yeah, I think that d10's work better than d6's. Since I don't work for a few hours yet, I'm going to tinker with things like d12+d6 rank dice, just for fun. It feels pretty good in The One Ring, but the One Ring also has special pips on the d12 and the d6s that mess with probabilities. [/QUOTE]

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