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Warhammer - where did it go so horribly wrong

Started by Erik Boielle, October 14, 2007, 10:49:04 AM

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Ian Absentia

#330
November 06, 2007, 08:52:11 AM
Quote from: Erik Boielle...it'd be awesome. Pure focus on making the punter feel like a badass....
You keep wondering why GW made the executive decision to make the roleplaying game different from the wargame, but you've been answering yourself.  It's because the wargame already covered all of those bases.  Hell, the wargame is already a pseudo-roleplaying game, what with the personality models and all.  Making the roleplaying game just like it would be redundant.
Quote...page after page of big burly men with glistening muscles... :faints:
Hee-hee.  This is pretty funny.  Why didn't you just come out and express it like this from the start?

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kryyst

#331
November 06, 2007, 02:55:25 PM
Quote from: Erik BoielleThats just it though - given a dice pool of 5 and a 50/50 chance of each dice being a success the chances of getting no successes is about 3% - equivalent to rolling 98+ on a d100. You are always likly to get some kind of success even if it isn't enough to get entirely what you want. Add in a fortune point reroll and VERY RARELY INDEED would you have to deal with getting no success at all.

% systems are the fucking devil, and instant death to any kind of heroic action.

What kind of mechanics are you playing?  Most dice pool systems are based on about an 80% chance of failure, per die.   You are just making statistics and apparently game references up as you go along.  Your arguments aren't based on anything other then your own delusions.
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Erik Boielle

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November 06, 2007, 03:15:04 PM
Quote from: kryystWhat kind of mechanics are you playing?  Most dice pool systems are based on about an 80% chance of failure, per die.

I was thinking of Burning Empires, which is D6s:- 1,2,3 = fail 4,5,6 = pass

But it works with nWoD (which is, er, D10s 8+ isn't it?) as well (although less so) - on five dice the chances of getting no successes is 17% or 84+ on a d100. I'm more familiar with oWoD which was a bit more forgiving.

(Dice + adds is better as well - you may roll a two and only get 14, but you still got '14' not 'I failed my roll')

(incidentally, my first love in GW was Titans, and this is the coolest thing evar:-



does anyone know what those legs are from?)
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