Ninja-Bear Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Hello good folks, Inspiration hit me the other day about the dreaded half die. I was thinking of changing the 1/2 in strength damage to 1D6-1 since in theroy they are the same. Hopefully it woild be a little easier the compute on the fly and I think the side effect woild be that in Heroic games the temptation to go higher in strength to avoid the half damage would go away. Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Neilson Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Yeah. I think I want to buy all my damage at 3 points for 1d6-1, instead of 5 points for 1d6. That should be OK if 1d6-1 is a fair replacement for 1/2d6, right? 3d6 averages 10.5 damage, and 5d6-5 averages 13 1/3 (if you have a minimum of 1) or 12.5 (if you let a 1 roll be zero, also easier to do on the fly). Doing 19% or 27% more average damage sounds like a pretty good deal from where I sit. By contrast, 5x 1/2d6 would average 10 damage. That half die costs 60% of a full d6, and averages 57% or so of a full d6 roll, so it’s as close as we’re gonna get mathematically. If the issue is fiddliness /ease on the fly, why not remove the half die in favour of a straight +2? That’s the same average damage, and no extra roll or adjustments for the half die required. I’ve toyed in the past with 16d-1 for STR 4 points above the breakpoint (which, with the 1 minimum, is pretty close to the 2.8 mathematically correct average damage), maybe 1/2d6 – 1 or 1/3 d6 for +2 (should average 1.4; that gets 1 /3 if we min at 1, or 1.5) and maybe 50% or 2/3 chance of +1 (s/b 0.7) at 1 point over. Even more fiddly, of course, but when we started 1e, you didn’t have half dice either – it was added as more granularity for more fiddliness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninja-Bear Posted April 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Thanks for the +2 suggestion. I was thinking about using standard effect but then that would only make it +1 iirc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 The half die is pretty easy to deal with if you roll a d3 like I have. It is a d6 numbered 1-3 twice, and I have colored both 3s and one of the 2s red (leaving the other numbers white). The face value is the STUN, and it contributes +1 BODY only if the number rolled is red. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Doesn't the 4, 5, or 6 (which equates to your two 3's and a 2) only apply in Killing Attacks, with standard attacks only applying 1 Body on a 3 (or a 5 or 6)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninja-Bear Posted April 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 The half die is pretty easy to deal with if you roll a d3 like I have. It is a d6 numbered 1-3 twice, and I have colored both 3s and one of the 2s red (leaving the other numbers white). The face value is the STUN, and it contributes +1 BODY only if the number rolled is red. Any idea where to get a D3? I have looked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbywolfe Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 http://www.chessex.com/Dice/Specialty%20Dice/3_sided.htm https://www.thediceshoponline.com/dice-search/3-sided Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninja-Bear Posted April 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 http://www.chessex.com/Dice/Specialty%20Dice/3_sided.htm Much obliged! https://www.thediceshoponline.com/dice-search/3-sided Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 Doesn't the 4, 5, or 6 (which equates to your two 3's and a 2) only apply in Killing Attacks, with standard attacks only applying 1 Body on a 3 (or a 5 or 6)? No. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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