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<blockquote data-quote="innerdude" data-source="post: 6671743" data-attributes="member: 85870">For me personally, I know that any game that I would consider the &quot;best&quot; RPG out there would use a bell-curve distribution for dice rolling. Simply put, the natural world we inhabit operates on a bell-curve distribution. If you want to have any real attempt at modeling &quot;real world&quot; action resolution, your system has to use a bell curve. The problem I've found is that the most popular bell-curve systems--GURPS, HERO--are &quot;roll under.&quot; Put bluntly, I dislike roll-under systems, and I hate with a flaming, furious passion GURPS' version of it. I hate the nebulousness of degree of success, I hate the idea that as a player you NEVER have any real idea of what the &quot;target&quot; level of success is. Is a &quot;standard&quot; success good enough? Do I need to roll 4 under the the obstacle? 5 under?For that reason alone I've pretty much discounted ever playing HERO as well (sorry [MENTION=19675]Dannyalcatraz[/MENTION]). I just can't stand the basic 3d6-roll under resolution.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="innerdude, post: 6671743, member: 85870"] For me personally, I know that any game that I would consider the "best" RPG out there would use a bell-curve distribution for dice rolling. Simply put, the natural world we inhabit operates on a bell-curve distribution. If you want to have any real attempt at modeling "real world" action resolution, your system has to use a bell curve. The problem I've found is that the most popular bell-curve systems--GURPS, HERO--are "roll under." Put bluntly, I dislike roll-under systems, and I hate with a flaming, furious passion GURPS' version of it. I hate the nebulousness of degree of success, I hate the idea that as a player you NEVER have any real idea of what the "target" level of success is. Is a "standard" success good enough? Do I need to roll 4 under the the obstacle? 5 under? For that reason alone I've pretty much discounted ever playing HERO as well (sorry [MENTION=19675]Dannyalcatraz[/MENTION]). I just can't stand the basic 3d6-roll under resolution. [/QUOTE]

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