[UA] Missing bit AKA Perfect Match

[Liam Routt]

Chad Underkoffler wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 10:13:35 -0400
> > From: Torsten Bernhardt <torsten.bernhardt at mcgill.ca>
> >
> > Thought of something a little while ago. In UA, pretty much
> > everything you can do with two ten-sided dice has is done. 
...
> > The
> > only thing that isn't covered is an exact match.

> They way I envision the spectrum is this:
> 
> * BOHICA: You done bad, and get a whuppin'.
> * Sour Cherry (matched failure): You done bad, and lose sumthin'.
> * Normal Fail: You done bad.
> * Normal Success: You done okay.
> * Flipped Success: It looks like you wuz gonna do bad, but you did okay.
> * Perfect Match Success: You done the best you can do.
> * Cherry (matched success): You done so good, you got sumthin' extra.
> * OUACOWA: You the *man*, dog!
...
> [3] I think treating a perfect match as full damage, full
> effect, just plain old "best success" fits.

It always made a lot more sense to me to ditch 01 as the OUACOWA, and make
it, instead, the result of a Perfect Match with the skill. It remains a
single % (or 2%, including flip-flops) chance. And it is the greatest
degree of success possible for you at your skill level. Why remove the
least possible degree of success and make it the greatest? It doesn't make
elegant sense in the system (to my mind).

So in my games if you roll 01 I giggle and tell you how lame your
(successful) attempt was. Roll an 01 to hit me, and I sometimes notice
it... :)

Take care,

Liam
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Liam Routt                                               liam at routt.net
Darcsyde Productions                           http://www.darcsyde.org/

        -- still waiting for the Absolute Destiny Apocalypse --

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