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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 3233297" data-attributes="member: 13892">Well, in fairness, D6 doesn't have levels and gaining the amount of power roughly equivalent to a d20 level takes a long time -- you can only raise skills one pip at a time, and raising Attribute values costs an insane amount of character points (and then, of course, you have the rules that protract an already lengthy process by one to three weeks of in-character training). If you actually play by the RAW, it takes a very long time for characters in D6 Star Wars to obtain the level of power that you're complaining about (if they can obtain it at all -- many can't due to point caps). Gaming once per week for a year, it's still unlikely that a PC would have come anywhere close to maxing out his abilities and skills if the RAW are adhered to where character advancement is concerned.During the three-year campaign that I played in, we met once a week on average, and I played the same human character with a Venom-like symbiote attached to him  throughout the game. Even with the 'super' aspect of my character At the end of the third year, the most dice that I could roll at one time, for a single action, was ten (with cap bonuses from the symbiote). As a regular human I would have been clocking in at roughly an eight die total. As a Wooikie about nine dice. As a drioid. . . well, I probably would have been dead well before the three year limit <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />This is more than a bit misleading. First, the -1D penalty aplies to all subsequent skill or attribute rolls made in a round. Second, the typical chracter has a point cap of 4D on their attributes, which means that they're usually rolling 9 dice tops per action (and that assumes a character who has been around for a while). Taking multiple actions can increase this to a maximum of 45 dice, assuming that the above exemplary character takes nine actions (not a very common occurance, given that the more actions one takes, the more likely they are to fail). Honestly, all said and done, you're likely to roll just as many dice to resolve combat in D6 Star Wars as you are in any dice pool system (and that's probably being generous -- when compared to many other dice pool systems, the pools in Star Wars D6 tend to be fairly small). Ultimately, you're right though -- non-pool systems do have an advantage over pool systems when it comes to the number of dice that you roll. That said, as some other posters have already pointed out, in this case, tallying the multiple die modifers of d20 and resolving actions on the tabletop takes, for many people, just about as much (or more) time as rolling and counting multiple dice does.</blockquote>

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