[UA] Missing bit AKA Perfect Match

[Chad Underkoffler]

> 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. 
> You add up the numbers. You can use the number itself for 
> damage. You can flip-flop. Matched numbers, which you can't 
> effectively flip-flop, get special effects. You can flip-flop
> a 10 to a 01, but you can't escape the dreaded 00 roll. The
> only thing that isn't covered is an exact match. If you need
> to roll a 37 to hit someone and you roll a 37 exactly, you 
> don't get anything special. Why not? Any guesses?

They way I envision the spectrum is this:

* BOHICA: You done bad, and get a whuppin'. [1]
* Sour Cherry (matched failure): You done bad, and lose
sumthin'. [2]
* 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. [3]
* Cherry (matched success): You done so good, you got sumthin'
extra.[2]
* OUACOWA: You the *man*, dog! [1]

[1] BOHICAs and OUACOWAs are insta-loss or insta-wins; total
botches or utter dominations of the task at hand-- you dictate
exactly what happens right or wrong.

[2] Cherries are quirks of fate that aren't directly related to
the quality of your success or failure; they are chancy things
that "broaden" or "deeping" that result.

[3] I think treating a perfect match as full damage, full
effect, just plain old "best success" fits. The higher you roll,
the better the quality of success; I think a perfect match
should give you the full measure of that success.

YMMV.




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