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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dethklok" data-source="post: 6133742" data-attributes="member: 6746469">I agree wholeheartedly! I also think percentiles would be ideal for Paranoia - the false precision would not be a disadvantage, but rather an evocative reflection of life in the psychotically bureaucratic Alpha Complex.This is my point. If you like step sizes of 5%, you don't want d100. You want d20. Because d20 allows you to manipulate numbers like "13," and "+5," while percentile systems give you numbers like "87" and "+25."No. Character growth can be set to any rate, including frustratingly slow or even zero, in a game that uses dice of any size.I see! Then I have a question for you: Would you rather give your child five dollars allowance at the end of the week, or, would you rather pay out 1 cent every 20 minutes?  Yes. And there would also be times when the imperfections in the dice rolled will skew the chances for rolling under vs. above 46 will be greater than 5%.Please explain how d100 is used to approximate a Gaussian distribution, and why this would be preferable to generating a Gaussian distribution using 3dX.That there are other complaints about RQ does nothing to change the fact that RQ would be much better always treating the ones die as a 0, or, (for those who can't live without pushing the upper limit on what one might be able to squint and pretend is genuine rather than false precision), with all values divided by 5 and then converted to d20.</blockquote>

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