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From: Barbie <barbie@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: Dice Pools
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 00:24:59 +0100
At 07-Mai-98 wrote Nexx:

>Dice pools always seemed to be to be a way to get things that should be
>part of performing an action as part of an action. After all, the only
>way your Sorcery skill impacts Sorcery is through your Magic Pool, and you
>Quickness has nothing to do with a skilled firefight... except through the
>Combat Pool.

> What I'm wondering, though, is if anyone has any other pools they
>regularly use, like social pools or athletic pools described in the
>Companion, and what they consist of.

Well the way I see it dice pools are the way to relate skills to attributes
and so should be used. And yes I use social pool or athletic pool.

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Barbie
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