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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dethklok" data-source="post: 6134144" data-attributes="member: 6746469">No, the post to which I was responding said, "It allows a player to take action to progress a character and makes those adjustments quite small so many of them can be had." My response wasn't an apples and oranges comparison, and the correct analogy isn't to compare earning X*100 cents per week with earning X*1 dollars per week.Hmm... shouldn't be hard to design. I'd imagine that hit points would be the best candidate for such a mechanic; presumably there would need to be damage vs. toughness mechanic so that 15% damage would mean something different to a chicken or a tank.This isn't a challenge to my point, as much as it is the flip side to my point: There is a "sweet spot" to granularity. And it isn't found in percentiles or d2s. Yet while nobody in this thread seriously advocates a 1d2 system, many, many gamers advocate the use of 1d100.I remember doing this when I was younger. It can be fun, although the realism isn't high - a hit to the limbs is a less successful attack than a hit to the head. This would imply that it's actually the 10's die that should determine location; unfortunately that would mean in a percentile system that head hits would generally be very rare. (The passing thought does occur that such an idea of reading the 1's digit as location is actually best with a d20, although this isn't why I believe percentile systems are inappropriate for most rpgs).Wonderful! I nominate you to be the one waking up every twenty minutes to give my son his tri-hourly one-cent allowance.The triangle and bell curves really are nice for games.Truthfully, I think there is a sweet spot for the number of dice one throws also. I don't like 3dX systems because they require a lot of addition for simple rolls, when one could simply throw a d6, d10 or d20 and be done. 3d6 also gives very rare 3's and 18's - critical successes are only one in 216! To get near the popular 5% critical hit of d20 systems, you need to make 16's, 17's, and 18's critical.But on the other side, with only 1d20, 1d10, or any sort of 1dX, you can't get <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmoid_function" target="_blank">sigmoidal</a> success curves. So I think 2dX is probably the best for most games.But that stated, I'm not convinced that the lack of a sigmoidal chance for success is that bad, or that having to add three dice together to get a roll with a Gaussian is a real problem, either. 1dX and 3dX are pretty close in usefulness; you'd have to go to something like 5dX before I could say it was definitely worse than 2dX. But this is what the percentile system is to its competitors - the numbers are literally a factor of five greater than d20, and a factor of ten greater than d10. RPG Percentile Systems? Just say No!</blockquote>

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