Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5813697" data-attributes="member: 177">The basic idea here is as old as Classic Deadlands, at least.Characters have an attribute (like Knowledge, or Deftness) expressed in so many of a type of die (like a 2d6 Knowledge).&nbsp; When you try something that you don't have a skill for, or is too basic for skills, you roll your attribute.You also have skills - each skill is just a number.&nbsp; Skills are associated with an attribute.&nbsp; Shootin'<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :P"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />istol is a Deftness skill.&nbsp; If you have a Deftness of 2d8, and a Shootin': Pistol of 5, you roll 5d8 (the skill gives number of dice, the attribute the die type) when trying to fire a pistol at a target.Now, say you're lookin' at some newfangled firearm you've never seen before, and you are trying to work out exactly what it does or how it works.&nbsp; The GM can ask you to roll a Shootin' roll, based off your Knowledge die type, rather than your Deftness.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 5813697, member: 177"] The basic idea here is as old as Classic Deadlands, at least. Characters have an attribute (like Knowledge, or Deftness) expressed in so many of a type of die (like a 2d6 Knowledge). When you try something that you don't have a skill for, or is too basic for skills, you roll your attribute. You also have skills - each skill is just a number. Skills are associated with an attribute. Shootin':Pistol is a Deftness skill. If you have a Deftness of 2d8, and a Shootin': Pistol of 5, you roll 5d8 (the skill gives number of dice, the attribute the die type) when trying to fire a pistol at a target. Now, say you're lookin' at some newfangled firearm you've never seen before, and you are trying to work out exactly what it does or how it works. The GM can ask you to roll a Shootin' roll, based off your [I]Knowledge[/I] die type, rather than your Deftness. [/QUOTE]

Verification