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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8766746" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>That's good to hear but Ben not an RPG designer nor, I suspect, familiar with the implications of mechanics for gameplay (that's actually evident in one of the books - possibly False Value). I've played an awful lot of d100 games over the last 30 years, they're great for a certain kind of hard-edged "whoops you died!" experience, but that is very much not the one that Peter Grant and other major characters in RoL have. It's obviously too late to change anything now but it's a bit disappointing to see Chaosium sticking to the d100 system come hell or high water when something more narrative and less binary pass/fail would obviously have suited the tone of the books.</p><p></p><p>Are there any modifications to the normal d100 resolution system to account for the fact that very little in the RoL oeuvre is a simple matter of success or failure? Indeed margins of success/failure basically drive the story in a lot of the books. I guess another question is are the PCs even intended to be "Peter Grant-types" or are they in more of an ancillary role?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8766746, member: 18"] That's good to hear but Ben not an RPG designer nor, I suspect, familiar with the implications of mechanics for gameplay (that's actually evident in one of the books - possibly False Value). I've played an awful lot of d100 games over the last 30 years, they're great for a certain kind of hard-edged "whoops you died!" experience, but that is very much not the one that Peter Grant and other major characters in RoL have. It's obviously too late to change anything now but it's a bit disappointing to see Chaosium sticking to the d100 system come hell or high water when something more narrative and less binary pass/fail would obviously have suited the tone of the books. Are there any modifications to the normal d100 resolution system to account for the fact that very little in the RoL oeuvre is a simple matter of success or failure? Indeed margins of success/failure basically drive the story in a lot of the books. I guess another question is are the PCs even intended to be "Peter Grant-types" or are they in more of an ancillary role? [/QUOTE]
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