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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PennStud77" data-source="post: 1482356" data-attributes="member: 12492">Exalted's stunt bonuses are 3 levels, just as DanMcS mentioned.  The first level is just a bonus, and IIRC, levels 2 and 3 let you regain some a willpower score that is specific to the WhiteWolf system.  One of the reasons that my gaming group went back to D&D after a few sessions of Exalted was the supreme simplicity of d20.  I like the simplicity of Spycraft's Action Dice, also, so DanMcS' suggestion of straight 1,2,3d6 is a very good one IMHO.  You do miss the regaining willpower of the higher levels, though I can't think of what would accurately replace that.As for the difference between the levels, I do recall Exalted's explanation being simply that a good description (which should be fairly commonly awarded) is a 1d6, a description that interacts with other and/or the environment grants the next level 2d6, and the 3d6 level is when your stunt makes all the players stop and say "Wow".Now, the thing that I REALLY liked about the Spycraft Action Dice system was criticals.  A critical threat is not activated by a second to-hit roll, but by spending an Action Die [you can also activate NPC errors].  This allows you to control when the really cool stuff (a critical success) happens [also, every time you get an Action Die, so does the DM, which he uses to activate your errors, as well as NPC critical threats], instead of crit-ing the minions all the time and rarely doing it against the BBEGs, which is how it usually ends up IMXP.  In this variant, you would have to give the d6s as separate entities (pennies, poker chips, etc.) that can be stored instead of an automatic bonus.  Just an option.</blockquote>

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