What are you opinions on the d20 dice itself. Do you find that it creates too large of a spread? Do you dislike how most games use the 1 and the 20 for critical failures and successes? Do you swap it out for 3d6 or something else?
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@ChaskaTheMagicDog Depends on the game. Mostly I'd prefer d100 for skills/tasks, because it lets you be more fine-grained, and 3d6 resource units (stats) are easier to add/multiply up to it (like, Dodge starts at DEX x 2%). In heroic/fun games I tend to like 2d6 task systems.
d20's too wide a result scale, especially when bonuses tend to be in the 1-10 range like D&D, and too grainy compared to d100.
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3d6 is SO center-heavy it's not fun, that's why I only use it in my horror games, where death spirals quickly take you from "I have a good chance of success" to "I cannot succeed, I will be eaten".
Dice pools get even worse, they're basically diceless determinism once you get past 3 or 4 dice.
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@ChaskaTheMagicDog I used to do math to figure those out, and it's just unintuitive, but I think they're very very similar depending on what TNs you pick.
1-2 dice is a crap shoot (literally), 3-4 is 70-80%, 5+ is 95+%. So you just make sure you die mod them up or down to get the result you want.
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