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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8671665" data-attributes="member: 85555">For me I find dice pools simpler and more fun. I'm okay with any type of die resolution system (if I want a clear transparent sense of probability, I would go with something like a d100 based system like Chaosium has). But one thing I like about dice pools is they both cloud numbers (so it is harder for a math wiz to calculate the probability on the fly, while being pretty intuitive, so everyone has a sense of their chances). People will vary on this of course (we have had plenty of discussions on dice and probabilities here before), but I find dice pools, if they are done well and aren't too wonky (which admittedly some can become), are closer to my feeling of what it is like to attempt something in life. They do have downsides. All approaches have a downside. One is scaling. There are ways around it. Some more and some less elegant. But at the same time one of the reasons why I like dice pools is you avoid some of the crazier scaling you used to see in the d20 era (I loved 3E but some of those DCs got a little ridiculous for my taste). With a dice pool, obviously depending on how it is done, there is usually always at least a chance of success (and dice pools tend to lean on things succeeding in general if they aren't too wonky). And there are people for whom, wonky dice pools are enjoyable too (I don't like dice pools that get too fiddly, but I have seen a number of players who clearly enjoy when dice pools almost become a game unto themselves). Admittedly I am biased. I use dice pools in my own systems. But I chose dice pools because I like how they feel (and for me the fondest is purely about the mechanic because I actually like very few games that use dice pools: I always enjoyed the dice pool aspects of those games, but I was often not a fan of the settings they were attached to). All that said, I do get that dice pools are a tough sell (I've been selling dice pool games for over ten years and so I know it is just a fact: if you make a game with dice pools, there is a percentage of players for whom that will be a non-starter). So it is one of those things where, if you are designing a game, you have to ask yourself if the enjoyment that the feel of dice pools brings to you is worth that (because you won't get the same resistance to something like a die+bonus, or a percentile system). For me, it is important that the games I am making are games I want to play and enjoy (I like d20 for example but I would have been miserable if I were making d20 games for the past 13 years).</blockquote>

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