[Rq-rules] Alternity (was Criticals and Specials or Specials andCriticals or something)

[Steve Perrin]

I played a couple of Alternity games including one relatively extended campaign and the problem I found with it was that it took just a little too much to be good enough to hit. What, in my mind, should have been an 11 out of 20 chance was a 10 out of 20 chance, and so forth. I always felt that I was falling just short of competence, and I don't like playing a character in that situation.

Steve Perrin, still striving for competence
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: alan richards 
  To: rq-rules at crashbox.com 
  Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 2:13 PM
  Subject: [Rq-rules] Alternity (was Criticals and Specials or Specials andCriticals or something)





  On 3/4/07, rq-rules-request at crashbox.com <rq-rules-request at crashbox.com > wrote:

  GAZZA he say:

Problem is that there are modifiers to be taken into account, so the
listed percentage on the character sheet isn't the only one you needto know. Of course you can also add in the appropriate numbers forbeing Demoralised, Fanatic, Berserk, attacking a prone target, and so
forth - but after a certain point you might as well just look it up.Yes which leads to a bit of Alternity which did not impress me so much (do try not to nod off during this next bit!)

  The chance for Ordinary/Good/Outstanding are written on thee character sheet. 
  You roll d20 and compare the die roll against these values
  Then if necessary the GM applies a modifier depending on how easy/hard the task is. This modifier is a staged die which (s)he rolls and adds to your d20 score and you compare the new number to your Ordinary/Good/Outstanding values. 
  i.e. if you have a small advantage (s)he would roll -1d4 upto a massively difficult task where (s)he would roll +3d20
  It does mean that you never have to recalculate your skill values (because as Mr Perrin says diving by 2 can be awfully tricky for some people) and I am sure that being T$R it is statistically sound but it struck me as clunky and frustrating. 


  Al



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