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Old 09-08-2006, 03:45 PM
Wyvern76 Wyvern76 is offline
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Re: [RPG]: Boomtown Planet, reviewed by Dan Davenport (3/2)

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Endurance (En): physical health or constitution.

Fortitude (Ft): a person’s inner strength and, to some extent, mental aptitude.
That's about what I figured.

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As for how it works: Let's say your Agility is 3. For all Agility-related Tricks of the Trade other than those you've improved by one point through experience, you will roll 3d6 and declare "odds" or "evens." So, if the difficulty number is 4 and you roll 5, 3, 5, you'd have two successes if you had declared "odds" and no successes if you'd declared "evens."
Yeah -- that's what it sounded like, but I rejected that possibility as being too illogical. If the difficulty number is even, then you'll have a better chance of success if you declare evens. So there's no reason why anyone would benefit from declaring odds. It's a meaningless choice that only serves to screw up the probability curve.

(What I mean: suppose you're only rolling a single die. Normally, increasing or decreasing the difficulty by 1 would have a consistent effect on the chance of success. However, when you add in this gimmick, the effect of a +/-1 change in difficulty seesaws back and forth between large and small jumps in probability of success.)

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