Re: The Matrix

From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Wed May 31 2000 - 13:27:54 MDT


> The factor that bothers me with many systems I've seen is that it's
> sometimes hard to work out what the actual percentage chance of you
> achieving a task is. For this reason, I may go for a probability based
> system utilising modifications on a single D20 roll.
>
> Rolling vast pools of dice for Storyteller is great fun, but...

Actually, that's one of my favorite elements of the WW system (which
has little to do with Storytelling): the probability of getting x
successes looks something like a bell curve. Getting the average
number of successes is substantially more probable than doing
extremely well, or extremely poorly.

-Dan

      -unless you love someone-
    -nothing else makes any sense-
           e.e. cummings



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