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MrNexx
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 Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 8:09 pm Post subject: Wild Die is for Wild Cards |
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Ok, just an idea I want to toss out for consideration:
Unimportant NPCs do not get the wild die. So, Captain Phasma, who is named and important, rolls the wild die. She might have major successes or major failures. Stormtrooper FN-2189, who is utterly unremarkable in every way? He does not roll the wild die.
PCs, of course, always count as important.
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Whill
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| Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 10:58 pm Post subject: Re: Wild Die is for Wild Cards |
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| MrNexx wrote: | Ok, just an idea I want to toss out for consideration:
Unimportant NPCs do not get the wild die. So, Captain Phasma, who is named and important, rolls the wild die. She might have major successes or major failures. Stormtrooper FN-2189, who is utterly unremarkable in every way? He does not roll the wild die.
PCs, of course, always count as important. |
I've done this a lot for mooks, especially stormtroopers. Adding the dice normally is one of the options for 1 on the wild die anyway, so this is just one step further by removing the exploding 6 on the wild die for mooks. No biggie.
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Naaman
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| Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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In our games we usually ignore the wild die mishaps and just explode on 6s. We call it the "lucky die."
It makes sense to me that mooks don't need a wild die: they typically serve as speed bumps anyway. |
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Bren
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| Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2019 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Sometimes I don't even roll for low level mooks. I just use an average result e.g. thug has a 3D dodge, then anything over 10 hits him. |
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DougRed4
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This reminds me a lot of Savage Worlds RPG, where only 'Wild Cards' (i.e., all player characters and main villains) have special rules that apply only to them.
Totally makes sense to me.
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