Re: Smoothing the hiccup between 20 and 1w (and 20wn and 1wn+1...)

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_...>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 18:08:56 +0100 (BST)

viktor:
> If you have an ability rating of 20, then you still have a possibility
> of failure (or whatever result rolling a 20 would normally produce in
> your mastery level minus one): if you roll a 20 on your test, roll the
> die again immediately. If the result is <=10, then you avoid the
> fumble (or whatever the poorer result is); if the result is 11+, then
> you fumble (or whatever the poorer result is.
>
> The 50-50 split seemed fair to me, but I suppose that can be tweaked
> (i.e. you could say, second roll <=5 is safe, 6+ is a fumble, or
> something).
>
> Quick, elegant, and nicely hole-patching!

Fairly quick, but as elegance goes, it's piling special cases upon special case, I have to say. Having traduced it thusly, I have to confide that our group has been playing, at my instigation, something similar, so that there's always a chance of a failure, and of a fumble, at every skill level. (Reviews are mixed.)

Cheers,
Alex.

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