Re: Geek Notation

From: Tim Ellis <tim_at_...>
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 12:54:32 -0000

> One thing that just occured to me was to use your trusty old D20
as a D20/2
> (ie divide the result by 2), then you get a proper base ten
notation for
> numbers and a lower frequency of criticals and fumbles that seem
to be preferred.

By which I assume you mean that although 1 and 2 are both read as 1 (and 19 and 20 as 10) a critical only occurs on an actual roll of 1 and fumble on an actual roll of 20? The only problem is that those of with truly old d20's have ones that are marked 0-9 twice to start with!

On this whole subject I agree with Nick that the "Geek Notation" is not particularly intuative, I also think that changing it for a licensed product would only cause more confusion than it would solve.