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From: Barbie <barbie@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: SRII Lethality
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 23:04:19 +0100
At 19-Dez-97 wrote losthalo:


>Which brings up another failing of the SR system, very few dice to roll, in
>a system where at least two successes is needed for real success (for most
>tasks). A skill of 3 doesn't mean much in effectiveness. I think this is
>one of the benefits of attribute + skill systems (although their failing,
>certainly, is that min-maxing to get eight or ten dice is too easy). I'd
>rather not see characters adding their Quickness 5 and Firearms 4 together
>to get 9 dice to attack... ick.

If you want this to do, skip the pools completly and use the attrib as pools.
So you have more or less the same effect.

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