List of different d6 dice pool systems

Gabriel2 · January 16, 2013, 09:29:44 PM

Quote from: TQuid;618884FUDGE ... a standard roll is equivalent to 4d3-8.

Yep, I misremembered it. I had mistakenly recalled it being something like roll a number of Fudge dice indicated by the rank of the stat or skill.

Jason Coplen · January 17, 2013, 01:20:03 AM

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smiorgan · January 17, 2013, 01:51:35 AM

Quote from: Jason Coplen;618990Eaba

Ah! One of my reasons for asking was to see if any system used a "roll nd6 and keep 3" mechanic. I have a few ideas to mash that up with the coloured dice from Don't Rest Your Head.

Hollowpoint looks good. ORE is OK but I vastly prefer d6 to d10 - I think number recognition is faster.

Jason Coplen · January 17, 2013, 03:30:04 AM

Quote from: smiorgan;618993Ah! One of my reasons for asking was to see if any system used a "roll nd6 and keep 3" mechanic. I have a few ideas to mash that up with the coloured dice from Don't Rest Your Head.

Hollowpoint looks good. ORE is OK but I vastly prefer d6 to d10 - I think number recognition is faster.

I don't know DRYH or Hollowpoint. ORE seems okay, but I only gave the resolution a cursory glance. I'm woefully behind on keeping up with the Jones's.

Dirk Remmecke · January 17, 2013, 10:32:18 AM

Quote from: thedungeondelver;618647Ah; I knew T&T had a d6 resolution system, didn't know it was d6 pools.

It is a weird pool system as you roll a handful of dice, add a relatively large number, and then add all results of one side in a conflict together (a party of heroes). The same for the other side of the conflict (say, 5 orcs). The difference is divided among the characters or monsters of the losing side and applied to their stats/monster ratings as damage (diminishing the size of the pool/adds).

Quote from: smiorgan;618993Ah! One of my reasons for asking was to see if any system used a "roll nd6 and keep 3" mechanic.

L5R/7S has this, with d10 though.

Yong_Kyosunim · January 17, 2013, 11:53:50 AM

There's some system out there called 6d6.

I think Eclipse Phase is based on rolling 6d6.

languagegeek · January 17, 2013, 02:42:56 PM

Victoriana/Airship Pirates

RPGPundit · January 18, 2013, 07:28:40 PM

Has anyone mentioned the system from Over the Edge yet?

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smiorgan · January 19, 2013, 12:18:14 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;619677Has anyone mentioned the system from Over the Edge yet?

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2nd post, I think. Worth repeating though because Atlas have released the SRD for WaRP, which is nice of them.

Also worth repeating because it's OTE and awesome.

yojimbouk · January 19, 2013, 09:27:10 AM

Quote from: Nitehood;618644All the West End Games core books, that are now open license and free to download.

d6 Fantasy
d6 Adventure
d6 Space

It is an easy and flexible system.

Others by WEG, that are not free, but the same basic system:
Paranoia (1984)
Torg (1990)
The World of Indiana Jones (1994)
The World of Tank Girl (1995)
Shatterzone (1997)
Men in Black (1997)
Bloodshadows

~Nitehood

None of the above games use the D6 System. Paranoia was percentile, then d20 roll under. TORG used a single exploding d20. The others used the Masterbook system which was a derivative of the TORG system.

Jim.

Gabriel2 · January 19, 2013, 11:42:21 PM

Come to think of it, I think Space 1889 used a D6 dice pool for one of it's two skill systems.

One skill system was roll 1d6 under your skill rating.

The other skill system was the more traditional, roll Xd6, add them up, and compare to a difficulty number.

RPGPundit · January 20, 2013, 12:54:09 AM

Quote from: smiorgan;6197532nd post, I think. Worth repeating though because Atlas have released the SRD for WaRP, which is nice of them.

Also worth repeating because it's OTE and awesome.

I know. It really tempts me to do something with that system.

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