Who has been playing The Wildsea?

[Foodgeek]

Seems like way too much cut but we are still young guns and not very upgraded. We would just keep failing with a cut on everything.

 

[Willie the Duck]

Seems like way too much cut but we are still young guns and not very upgraded. We would just keep failing with a cut on everything.

This is why I am lead to believe the game is predicated on a 'partial-success=good-enough' mentality. With 4 dice (probably your best ability at start) you have just about a 50% chance of getting a full success (6) on a roll. With a cut of 1, this drops to ~13%. If you determine partial or full success (4-6) to be your goal, the chances become ~94%/69% with cut 1. The later looks a lot more reasonable for gameplay -- as the best thing you can do (cue my group's complaints about number of pips to spread around at game start).

 

[Foodgeek]

This is why I am lead to believe the game is predicated on a 'partial-success=good-enough' mentality. With 4 dice (probably your best ability at start) you have just about a 50% chance of getting a full success (6) on a roll. With a cut of 1, this drops to ~13%. If you determine partial or full success (4-6) to be your goal, the chances become ~94%/69% with cut 1. The later looks a lot more reasonable for gameplay -- as the best thing you can do (cue my group's complaints about number of pips to spread around at game start).

Nobody is above 2 dice in a skill (you aren't supposed to start with more than that as a young gun) but with edges and maybe an appropriate aspect, yeah, 3-4 dice. I've been pretty lucky (electronic rolls) -- The time I had a cut, i rolled two sixes, 3 and 2 (so did not get the twist but still had a 6) and once, I did not have a cut and rolled 6-1-1-1, so a cut would have been bad.

What's weird is even electronically, I have rolled pretty well so far, but the FF does roll a lot of 1s on danger rolls (the pilot has "Situational Awareness" so we just avoid those encounters). The only player who has flat out failed something (twice) is the slinger.

I'm about to do my first upgrade but it's not a skill, it's "Old Habits Die Hard," and I'm working on the ironsprig/trellis ship upgrade (we have the trellis part).