[UA] [OT] Non-UA Rules Wankery

[Piotr Pogorzelski]

>Okay, this has NOTHING to do with UA, but since you're all 
a self-selected
>group of gamers and the level of conversation here is 
generally so very
>high, I thought I'd tap the talent and bounce a rules 
mechanic idea in its
>formative stages off you.

>Basically, what I'm toying with is a variation on the 
standard pool of
>d10s, just like WW and AEG.  Only instead of aiming for a 
target number,
>you hope that your dice match.  So if you roll 5d10 and 
get 1, 3, 3, 3, 9,
>that's a success because you got three dice the same.  If 
you got 1, 2, 5,
>6, 10, that's a fail because none of them match.

Nice idea to get rid of maths, since I can't even count 
how many fingers I have (between eight and thirteen, I 
think). If it can help you, a similar dice convention was 
used in Sorcerer - at http://www.sorcerer-rpg.com/ (sorry 
if you thought this idea was unseen before).

Mr. Ben Brighoff said it was like Poker. You could go 
that way: you could let a player re-roll a part of or the 
whole dice pool if his character has a "skill" that helps, 
or play oppositions like fighting with a first round (every 
one rolls his dice) then a second round (and then people 
with adequate "skills" can re-roll)...

Gregory Pogorzelski.

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