[UA] [OT] Non-UA Rules Wankery

[Chris Milne]

On Tuesday, June 13, 2000 4:35 PM, Gregory Paul Stolze 
[SMTP:holycrow at mindspring.com] wrote:
>
> 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.

> -G.

Just some off the cuff ideas...

Like Ben Brighoff, my instant reaction to this was "Hey, poker". Guess that's 
what you get for using five dice in your example.

But that's cool. I wouldn't advocate going the whole poker route - too much 
needless complication - but there's something there. Essentially, you're trying 
to create sets of numbers. Not just sets of the _same_ number, but others - 
runs of numbers, say 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, for example. Perhaps you could have 
abilities that allow you to adjust one or more of the numbers to get a better 
set. Or is that still too complicated.


I should say that I like the idea of finesse and power as well, it's just that 
the poker thing leapt into my head and kept on running :-)



Chris Milne

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