Standard effect

[Sean Waters]

Boy would it make my life easier if the standard effect for a 1/2d6 was 2 points: you could then actually build any standard effect total you wanted. That would be great.

Anyone else feel the same?

[Captain Obvious]

http://www.herogames.com/forums/showpost.php?p=41974&postcount=4

[CTaylor]

Probably would be useful for that to be in the official rules; I'd allow it in my games.

[Hierax]

This is what I do. Use the full dice equivalents and allow -1 do actually be -1. Which gives the same result as your ½d6=2.

It makes better sense with 1 DC (Killing) = 1 point of Standard Effect (SE) to give a smooth progression:

K-DC = SE . Damage


1 pip
½d6 or 1d6-1
1d6
1d6+1
2d6-1 or 1½d6
2d6


This is better than the official rules (H5e.72/H5er.104) of ½d6=+1 and -1 = 0 because it's more intuitively logical with ½ rounding up like normal math; and -1 is actually less than +0; and (most of all) it gives a smoother more granular progression where each point counts.