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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nightchilde-2" data-source="post: 1728320" data-attributes="member: 4109">Grumpy Celt:  Next year for Werewolf and Mage.  I can't remember the exact months.  Werewolf the Forsaken (yes, yes, WtF..get it out of your system now..hehe) was to be released in...November I think...of this year originally with Mage in..March?...2005, but they had more work to do on WtF and had to push its' release date (and, one could guess, Mage's) back.  I suspect this will be a Good Thing (tm).Initiative is, like in D&D, only rolled once now at the beginning of combat.Here's a fairly quick example.  Suppose Bob (Str 3, Weaponry 3 weilding a knife (+1)) wants to attack Supervamp (who has Defense 3 and is wearing a leather jacket (armor rating of 1)).  Bob's dice pool for the attack is Str + Weaponry + Equipment - (Defense + Armor).  Or 3 + 3 +1 - 3 - 1 = 3 dice.  Bob's player rolls 3 dice.  Every die that comes up an 8, 9 or 10 is a success and translates into one lethal wound level dealt to Supervamp.Now, a permutation, if Bob's player rolls a 10, he invokes the 10 Again rule, which is "reroll the dice that come up a 10.  If you get an 8, 9 or 10, you get another success.  Repeat as often as needed."Botching is completely different as well (and it's now called a Dramatic Failure).  You can only botch on a Chance Roll.  What's a Chance Roll?  If your dice pool is reduced to 0 (or less), you still get to roll a single die.  If you roll a 10, you get a success (and the 10 Again rule).  If you roll a 1, you suffer a Dramatic Failure.Non-combat dice pools follow the same rules.  X + Y + Equipment + Bonuses - Penalties = Dice Pool.  X and Y are most often Ability + Skill, but are Ability + Ability in some cases.  Supernatural powers (so far) often add a "+Z" to the equation, where Z tends to be the power's rating.  So the roll for, say, an Animalism power might be Persuasion + Animal Ken + Animalism plus or minus any appropriate bonuses.No single bonus or penalty (barring supernatural stuff) goes above +/- 5.  Granted, you get three or four -5 penalties you're gonna really be suffering..Anyway, that's it in a nutshell.  Just about everything else is handled by bonuses or penalties to the die pool.  It's very elegant.</blockquote>

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