| From: | gurth@******.nl (Gurth) |
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| Subject: | SR4 Conversion |
| Date: | Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:17:12 +0200 |
was...
> Maybe the power will be changed to "Players will have to roll 2 more
> success".
See my reply to Pace for some thoughts on this :)
> But the outcome would be the same. A player will know that he usually
> needs to roll 2 succeses, and suddenly he doesn't succede with even 3
> successes. The player will know something is up, eve though the
> character wouldn't know.
True, and I think I mentioned this kind of thing in the post you replied
to. It's something that TN adjustment gets around nicely, most of the
time, but which SR4 is probably going to be a bit more problematic with
-- at least for GMs like me who prefer to keep this kind of info secret.
Then again, there's always the GM screen to roll dice behind. A few
years ago I used to roll PCs' Perception tests behind the screen, for
example, so they wouldn't know anything just by looking at the dice.
> In any case I still think a fixed T# is one of the bad things from SR4.
It does speed up a play a lot, though. Instead of:
"What were your rolls?"
"1, 1, 3, 4, 5, 5, 7 and 13."
"Okay, wait a sec while I figure out how many successes you
have against a TN I'm not going to tell you..."
*brain noises*
"Okay, such and such happens."
you have:
"How many hits did you roll?"
"Two."
"This and that happens."
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