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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6879288" data-attributes="member: 6775031">Depending on how familiar someone is with different types of dice models, and how you explain it to them, it's really not that weird at all. There is at least one game that I know of which uses this sort of range band mechanic, and it is The Great War of Magellan. In order to succeed at (for example) punching a dude, you would need to roll (for example) above 7 and not above 13. While the actual math of the system could use some refinement, they actually had a pretty good reason for using this method instead of anything traditional. In short, they were taking your attack roll and your target's defense roll, and superimposing both onto the same die. I'm sure you can imagine a system where you have a skill of 13, so you need to roll 13 or lower on a d20 in order to hit; and if your opponent gets a chance to dodge, then maybe they need to roll 7 or less in order to succeed at dodging. In GWoM, given those a numbers, a roll of 1-7 indicates that you would have hit, except they dodged; a roll between 8-13 means you hit; and a roll of 14+ means that you missed because you're not very good at fighting.Ignoring how bad those specific numbers are, the concept is actually pretty sound. Instead of two die rolls, made by two players, each against their own target numbers; you get one die roll, by one player, compared to two target numbers.Of course, GWoM then went off the deep end by introducing random other results that didn't correspond to skill levels. Something like, on a roll of exactly 5 you would fall prone, or on a roll of exactly 17 you hit their face and stun them for a round (these being two random numbers that are entirely unrelated to the skill level of either participant, and seemingly supersede the basic outcome of the die roll). As neat as the basic range band mechanic is, I really can't defend this part at all.</blockquote>

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