The Forge Forums Read-only Archives
The live Forge Forums
|
Articles
|
Reviews
Welcome,
Guest
. Please
login
or
register
.
August 12, 2022, 03:46:22 PM
1 Hour
1 Day
1 Week
1 Month
Forever
Login with username, password and session length
Forum changes:
Editing of posts has been turned off until further notice.
Search:
Advanced search
275647
Posts in
27717
Topics by
4285
Members Latest Member:
-
Jason DAngelo
Most online today:
76
- most online ever:
565
(October 17, 2020, 02:08:06 PM)
The Forge Archives
Inactive Forums
Random Order Creations
The Pool & casting dice
Pages: [
1
]
« previous
next »
Author
Topic: The Pool & casting dice (Read 2838 times)
Zoetrope10
Member
Posts: 32
The Pool & casting dice
«
on:
January 30, 2002, 04:03:05 AM »
James
I was delighted to discover The Pool a couple of days ago, by way of Ron's "Top 5 RPGs" article (
http://www.fandomlife.net./A55840/fln.nsf/all/52385EA75E4435DE80256B22006000B6?OpenDocument
)
I found the section of the rules on CASTING THE DICE to be confusing. I think I've figured out how this section's supposed to work, from reading the rest of the posts in this forum, re-reading the section in question multiple times and from reading Ron's review (even though he talks about an earlier version of The Pool).
Can you confirm my simple understanding, which goes as follows (?):
1.
A GM offered roll comprises a mandatory gift (1 to 3 dice) + an optional trait (1 or more dice) + an optional gamble (1 to 9 dice).
Success incurs a favourable outcome and you get to add two dice to your pool. If you gambled, you can opt for a MoV instead. Fail means, amongst other not so good things, that you lose all dice gambled.
2.
A player requested trait roll comprises an optional gift (1 to 3 dice) + a mandatory trait (0 or more dice) + a mandatory gamble (1 to 9 dice).
Success incurs a MoV. Fail means, amongst other not so good things, that you lose all dice gambled.
thanks, Z
PS: Blue Oyster Cult---cool!
Logged
James V. West
Member
Posts: 567
The Pool & casting dice
«
Reply #1 on:
January 30, 2002, 04:50:15 PM »
Thanks for checking out the game!
Yeah, you pretty much got it covered. Amazing how you did it by reading the current version. Fear not, I'll be cleaning it up very soon.
I hope you get a chance to try it out and I look forward to hearing how it went.
Thanks!
James V. West
"Don't you give up my young, young friends
Here's a story I think will please
How Sir Rastus Bear was in fact redeemed
Redeemed from the cell to which he'd been thrown
By men whose love was more
For the ice and cold"
Blue Oyster Cult
Logged
Later
James V. West
Random Order Creations
Zyn Dweomer
Pages: [
1
]
« previous
next »
Jump to:
Please select a destination:
-----------------------------
Welcome to the Archives
-----------------------------
=> Welcome to the Archives
-----------------------------
General Forge Forums
-----------------------------
=> First Thoughts
=> Playtesting
=> Endeavor
=> Actual Play
=> Publishing
=> Connections
=> Conventions
=> Site Discussion
-----------------------------
Archive
-----------------------------
=> RPG Theory
=> GNS Model Discussion
=> Indie Game Design
-----------------------------
Independent Game Forums
-----------------------------
=> Adept Press
=> Arkenstone Publishing
=> Beyond the Wire Productions
=> Black and Green Games
=> Bully Pulpit Games
=> Dark Omen Games
=> Dog Eared Designs
=> Eric J. Boyd Designs
=> Errant Knight Games
=> Galileo Games
=> glyphpress
=> Green Fairy Games
=> Half Meme Press
=> Incarnadine Press
=> lumpley games
=> Muse of Fire Games
=> ndp design
=> Night Sky Games
=> one.seven design
=> Robert Bohl Games
=> Stone Baby Games
=> These Are Our Games
=> Twisted Confessions
=> Universalis
=> Wild Hunt Studios
-----------------------------
Inactive Forums
-----------------------------
=> My Life With Master Playtest
=> Adamant Entertainment
=> Bob Goat Press
=> Burning Wheel
=> Cartoon Action Hour
=> Chimera Creative
=> CRN Games
=> Destroy All Games
=> Evilhat Productions
=> HeroQuest
=> Key 20 Publishing
=> Memento-Mori Theatricks
=> Mystic Ages Online
=> Orbit
=> Scattershot
=> Seraphim Guard
=> Wicked Press
=> Review Discussion
=> XIG Games
=> SimplePhrase Press
=> The Riddle of Steel
=> Random Order Creations
=> Forge Birthday Forum