Gods of War: Blowing Things All to Hell

[Jake Norwood]

I've got the basic resolution mechanics to Gods of War: Blowing Things All to Hell worked out and on my site at http://www.theriddleofsteel.com/otherstuff/GodsOfWar.htm
take a look. Note that as I add to it the things talked about in various threads concerning this project will be added.

Jake

[Mike Holmes]

I assume it is the GM who assigns grit? How much should he be giving out? Or is it a matter of taste? Will it depend a lot on how CharGen turns out?

What happens if your vices reduce your dice below one?

Mike

[Jake Norwood]

I assume it is the GM who assigns grit? How much should he be giving out? Or is it a matter of taste? Will it depend a lot on how CharGen turns out?

What happens if your vices reduce your dice below one?

Mike

Grit will come from CharGen and in-play actions. There will be ranges for that, which is next up on my to-write list.

Vices prevent the use of Grit, not the standard die everyone gets.

Note also that the point isn't to get a "fair chance," but rather to unleash hell accross the game table.

Jake

[Mike Holmes]

Just for kicks, here's the chances of getting a particular result (left column) with a particular number of dice (across top).

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   Dice
Res 1        2       3       4       5       6
1   10.00%   1.00%   0.10%   0.01%   0.00%   0.00%
2   10.00%   3.00%   0.70%   0.15%   0.03%   0.01%
3   10.00%   5.00%   1.90%   0.65%   0.21%   0.07%
4   10.00%   7.00%   3.70%   1.75%   0.78%   0.34%
5   10.00%   9.00%   6.10%   3.69%   2.10%   1.15%
6   10.00%  11.00%   9.10%   6.71%   4.65%   3.10%
7   10.00%  13.00%  12.70%  11.05%   9.03%   7.10%
8   10.00%  15.00%  16.90%  16.95%  15.96%  14.45%
9   10.00%  17.00%  21.70%  24.65%  26.28%  26.93%
10  10.00%  19.00%  27.10%  34.39%  40.95%  46.86%

Mike

[Jake Norwood]

Man, you statisticians amaze me...

Anyway, a buddy of mine and I have been playing with Thwarting mechanics, and it's a lot of fun (which is the point). It's also--predictably--chaotic, which is good. I'll have more mechanics in specific contests worked out. The cool thing about thwarting is that it works for anything that you want to screw up. Kinda cool.

Jake