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<blockquote data-quote="Obscure" data-source="post: 4160749" data-attributes="member: 22508">My favorite D&amp;D die has long been the percentile die -- the d10 labeled 00-90 -- ever since I played a 1e Fighter-Thief who had a wand of wonder (fond memories of conjuring grass beneath my enemies' feet).So I am growing a bit concerned that my favorite die might not even be used in 4e.<ul>
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<li data-xf-list-type="ul">We know that stabilization rolls under the new death and dying rules use a d20. </li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Miss chances granted by concealment seem to be governed now by modifiers to the d20 attack roll.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Spell failure chance seems to have been axed.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Early indications from the minis stat cards are that incorporeality effects have been simplified to something that only occurs during movement (“phasing”) or makes the subject take half damage from all attacks except criticals (“insubstantial”).</li>
</ul>So what’s left for the percentile? Rolling on random tables in the DMG?&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> Allaying my fear somewhat is that the &quot;official&quot; <a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dndacc/217430000" target="_blank">D&amp;D premium dice</a> being released by WotC in June are said to contain: So the d100 hasn’t gone extinct…unless this is a ploy by WotC to sell unneeded dice? (“You can use them for 3e….”)Did the 4e designers forget about percentile dice as the 3e designers purportedly almost forgot to include the d12 in 3e? Or is the d100 another deliberate casualty of “simplifying” the game?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Obscure, post: 4160749, member: 22508"] My favorite D&D die has long been the percentile die -- the d10 labeled 00-90 -- ever since I played a 1e Fighter-Thief who had a [I]wand of wonder[/I] (fond memories of conjuring grass beneath my enemies' feet). So I am growing a bit concerned that my favorite die might not even be used in 4e. [list] [/list] [list] [*]We know that stabilization rolls under the new death and dying rules use a d20. [*]Miss chances granted by concealment seem to be governed now by modifiers to the d20 attack roll. [*]Spell failure chance seems to have been axed. [*]Early indications from the minis stat cards are that incorporeality effects have been simplified to something that only occurs during movement (“phasing”) or makes the subject take half damage from all attacks except criticals (“insubstantial”). [/list] So what’s left for the percentile? Rolling on random tables in the DMG? :( Allaying my fear somewhat is that the "official" [URL=http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dndacc/217430000]D&D premium dice[/URL] being released by WotC in June are said to contain: So the d100 hasn’t gone extinct…unless this is a ploy by WotC to sell unneeded dice? (“You can use them for 3e….”) Did the 4e designers forget about percentile dice as the 3e designers purportedly almost forgot to include the d12 in 3e? Or is the d100 another deliberate casualty of “simplifying” the game? [/QUOTE]

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