06-02-2013, 09:16 AM
I agree.
Standard botch rules (no successes and at least a single 1) and to Hell with that 1s canceling successes rule.
If votes go another way though I won't be salty because I don't mind failing or botching or whatever happens because it's all fun.
[ramble]Honestly, you're already so likely to roll a 1-5 on a roll anyway, it seems wholly pointless except for the occasional standard botch. Getting rid of it keeps it at a 50/50 chance of success on any die roll.
It makes the rolls a bit more realistic for most mundane tasks.
Crazy me says: Everything's still random and maybe it's just the Universe nearing its end as entropy accumulates and all our fates devolve and decay. Then I realize some of the best stories and posts I've read we're the result of failure and botch. Are we just too afraid of failing when the result of most activities are just that?
Or maybe our little ball of dirt is in the midst of a cosmic demonstration of the infinite monkey theory, and in any part or parts of an infinite sequence you can get nothing but 1s for(what seems like)ever. I don't know if this is the Jove roller's fault or what, as I was rolling real dice to demonstrate the problem to a friend and rolled nothing but botches and fails with a pool of 6.
Maybe I was just unlucky.[/ramble]
Standard botch rules (no successes and at least a single 1) and to Hell with that 1s canceling successes rule.
If votes go another way though I won't be salty because I don't mind failing or botching or whatever happens because it's all fun.
[ramble]Honestly, you're already so likely to roll a 1-5 on a roll anyway, it seems wholly pointless except for the occasional standard botch. Getting rid of it keeps it at a 50/50 chance of success on any die roll.
It makes the rolls a bit more realistic for most mundane tasks.
Crazy me says: Everything's still random and maybe it's just the Universe nearing its end as entropy accumulates and all our fates devolve and decay. Then I realize some of the best stories and posts I've read we're the result of failure and botch. Are we just too afraid of failing when the result of most activities are just that?
Or maybe our little ball of dirt is in the midst of a cosmic demonstration of the infinite monkey theory, and in any part or parts of an infinite sequence you can get nothing but 1s for(what seems like)ever. I don't know if this is the Jove roller's fault or what, as I was rolling real dice to demonstrate the problem to a friend and rolled nothing but botches and fails with a pool of 6.
Maybe I was just unlucky.[/ramble]