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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 2547795" data-attributes="member: 386">Yeah, it could get bad, but in that example you're spending a Force Point.  You probably only have one or two of those, and if you're getting it back you're using it at a very dramatic moment.  edit: At the moment that it makes it cool to roll all those dice.My experience has been that when players used Force Points, and got to roll the unwieldly dice, it was really, really cool.  'cuz most of the time you're rolling 6D or 8D or whatever, and then suddenly you've got 14D or so.  Just holding all those dice in your hands... it's pretty cool.But I don't think you can have a game run like that, where characters are routinely making 20 rolls in a round.  It would be like watching the DM roll 20 times for all those henchman War1 NPCs hanging around you, or having your 20th level fighter fight an army of War1s.Anyway.  I really liked the system.  I never had a problem with wonky dice.  I guess I played to its strengths (fast, free-wheeling games) and it played to mine (no restrictions!  do whatever you can think of).  (For example, if players asked me if they could do something, my response was always: Roll.)Creating NPCs is so very easy, so very very easy.I wouldn't try to play it like D&D, with your dungeons and your missions and crap like that.  Try and get the players to make some interesting characters with obvious conflict in their backgrounds.  Then roll with that.  Remember that the game isn't really about the tactics 'n such; it's more about the style that you do things with.etc.  More rambling like that.  It's a good game.  The only problem I had was when I wanted to play a really wargame/tactical game - I could never get that feel from d6.  And I missed Hit Points (although it would be really easy to give d6 PCs hit points).</blockquote>

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