NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Northcott" data-source="post: 1473871" data-attributes="member: 18167">Monboesen: That's pretty much exactly why I like 2d10.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Skill, rather than blind luck, becomes the chief factor -- though not utterly removed.  It's still possible for opponents to roll extremes.  It's just unlikely.The point about the considerable shift in importance of feats is noteworthy.  Fraser: To be fair, you devil, only a couple of us were sociopaths.  A couple more were ruthless.  Well, I had some ruth... just not much... that whole "honour" thing was a pain in the @$$.  Then the last couple players... well, Knights of the Dinner Table comics are funny for a reason.  It was a low magic world, and evil necromancers had infiltrated the city on every level.  Undead were everywhere, hidden in the shadows.  So you lob vials of burning oil at a couple "choice" folks when they least expect it, and perhaps burn down a building or three.  It was expedience, not sociopathy.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Now, Chris with the merchants in the town square; that was another matter entirely.Back on topic:  I'm trying to talk the lads into giving things a whirl.   Chris is intrigued with the possibilities of this rules variation in Deadlands.  Should make things colourful.  It's also got me considering another fantasy campaign... something vaguely Warhammer FRP-ish.</blockquote>

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