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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5057309" data-attributes="member: 4937">My rules are drawn from alot of ideas, including SWSE, and I actually let you use your dice pull to do either one: reroll a die or add 1d6 to any die thrown.There are times when you are going to want to do either one.  Sometimes a reroll is nice.  Sometimes adding 1d6 is nice.  I think your logic suffers from the following problem.  Yes, it is true that if the reroll fails that you spent a resource and got nothing.  But, it is also true that if you throw a low value on the base dice, the addition of a 1d6 to the dice is likely to be wasted as well.   The addition of a d6 to the base dice is only helpful if you failed by less than the result of the d6.  Otherwise the resource is again wasted.  So, there are times when buying dice is going to be wasted however you treat it.But for the case of only failing on a 1 or only succeeding on a 20, a reroll is pretty much strictly better than adding an dice to the result to the result unless you add an extra benefit like, '1 is no longer an automatic failure if you buy a dice'.I played alot of Bloodbowl once upon a time.  A reroll can have a huge value.</blockquote>