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<blockquote data-quote="Jan van Leyden" data-source="post: 4889886" data-attributes="member: 20307">As I mentioned upthread, the rather obscure Throwing Stones used cutom dice as well. Each d6 had a special combination of symbols: there were sword-symbols for melee, bow-symbols for ranged attacks and quite some others as well.Your character was partly defined by the set of dice you selected for him; advancement ment to add another die to the set. For any action you had to roll all the dice of your character and counting the relevant ones. Say your character attacked the orc with his sword, then you counted the &quot;swords&quot; rolled and, iirc, added some fixed value.For your sword figther you wanted to have dice with lots of swords on them, somtimes two or three to one side of the die.In the very short lived test-run we performed, we used the other, not counting dice to interpret the action. So the orc rolled too few &quot;swords&quot; to hit, but the dice showed several agility/skill symbols? Looks like it was too much concentrating on evading your blows to effectively attack!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jan van Leyden, post: 4889886, member: 20307"] As I mentioned upthread, the rather obscure Throwing Stones used cutom dice as well. Each d6 had a special combination of symbols: there were sword-symbols for melee, bow-symbols for ranged attacks and quite some others as well. Your character was partly defined by the set of dice you selected for him; advancement ment to add another die to the set. For any action you had to roll all the dice of your character and counting the relevant ones. Say your character attacked the orc with his sword, then you counted the "swords" rolled and, iirc, added some fixed value. For your sword figther you wanted to have dice with lots of swords on them, somtimes two or three to one side of the die. In the very short lived test-run we performed, we used the other, not counting dice to interpret the action. So the orc rolled too few "swords" to hit, but the dice showed several agility/skill symbols? Looks like it was too much concentrating on evading your blows to effectively attack! [/QUOTE]

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