> Doubtless this is very old turf by now (if so, apologies for coming
> in midway) but the most obvious 'design decision' at work here is
> whether to have a high is good convention (like Pendragon), or a
> low is good convention (like Hero wars). You get a certain amount
> of strangenesses either way. But until someone designs dice with an
> arbitrary number of faces... (cue Orlanth, rolling a D147).
Oh, I agree completely that going with a "rolling low is good" convention is a good thing. I just think that this effect can wind up being unfair.
Michael W. Ryan, MCP, MCT | OTAKON 2000 mryan_at_... | Convention of Otaku Generationhttp://www.netaxs.com/~mryan/ | http://www.otakon.com/
No, I don't hear voices in my head;
I'm the one that tells the voices in your head what to say.
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