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Originally Posted by tanaka84
At which point I stopped reading, lost interest and decided to post...
I dont like the randomness of huge dice polls, but the exploding dice are like a quirk of the SW games... thats why bennies exist, and you can spend as much as you want rerolling soak....
So a 1/1 seems a little extreme, specially when your pet peeve isn't even well explained... of course some powers are better than others in combat... DUH!, I'm not saying the game is perfect, but when people log in RPG.net and read your review they are going to walk away with a bad opinion due to misinformed examples.
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Exploding dice are inherent to SW. However, elevating the dice pools elevates the randomness and variance of damage. A blast in Necessary Evil gets to a maximum pool of 5d6, using various advantages for stuff like blowing up cars. DoL's initial Maximum is 6d6 and goes up from there. It's variability is inherently higher, leading to more blasts that utterly obliterate things randomly. Variance will grow as the dice pool grows. This is also discussed in the review, that you skipped on reading. Bennies are nice for wound soaking, but you'll be doing a lot of it in this game, and high damage variance means being forced to soak 6 plus wounds at high levels. In a simulated fight, a blaster shot a brick four times, doing no damage the first three hits and pasting him on the fourth- pretty disgusting.
I have no 'pet peeve' with this game. It has too many problems for me to pick one. HERO does a good job of making points spent for a combat power coming out roughly equal- so does Mutants and Masterminds. Just because it can run a game, doesn't mean it can do it well, or that it will go well without heavy use of game master intervention, to prevent the game from destroying the game.
People are not robots. If they read my review, they can read the positive review, compare, and make up their own minds. I tried, mentally, to think of suggestions to improve this game, but its too much work. I think neither the system nor the setting are good enough to salvage, and I certainly don't think anyone should spend $25 to make the attempt.