Re: (TFT) Rolled my own.

[Martin Gallo <martimer@mindspring.com>]

Thanks for sharing that. I also toyed with such a system (using d%) 
and determined that for the 'mathematically disinclined' it was 
unfeasible. Being good with simple arithmetic myself, I was (and am 
continually) surprised at how many people had trouble with 
subtracting 23 from 56 and getting 33 in a reasonable amount of time 
- if they got it at all. While several people did think it was a 
better system (a more realistic of what they experienced in combat 
with the Society for Creative Anachronisms - note that I even had a 
method for dealing with 'Rhino Hides') giving the possible hit and 
ripostes as one roll, the amount of math was overwhelming them.

I tried to create a table (never got it below three) to help ease the 
math, but that made it feel more like a wargame, and everybody hated 
CRTs.

What is it about our preconceived notions! RPGers seem to hate tables 
and CRTs, but love long winded reference books full of minutia. 
Miniaturists hate CRTs (at least ratio based varieties), but love 
tables and minutia. Wargamers seem to love CRTs, and hate comparative 
dice fests. CCGers hate any kind of randomness except in the shuffle 
of a constructed deck.

> At 11:21 PM 8/24/01 -0400, Thorn wrote:
> > A couple folk asked how I folded die rolls together when I built my own
> > system.  So in reply to them (all two of them :) ), here under separate
> > subject...
>  >....>snip<....
> >

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