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Originally posted by Testament

Actually, falling damage capping out does make sense. Its called Terminal Velocity, you're not going to hit harder than that.

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Originally posted by Aravar

Why? Because in gaming I've always wanted to create a similar feel to the great stories. They are what got me into the hobby, and disappointed me about it, in the first place. If I want to play Gauntlet I'll turn to my Playstation.

Do you really prefer a system where a low level character hasn't a hope of doing anything to a high level one? Doesn't it lead to the problem mentioned above that if cetain sorts of people are pointing a crossbow at a PC it doesn't really matter?

I remember Terry Pratchett complained that he had many suggestions for an RPG based on Discworld and he turned them down because the first thing they showed him was the combat system.

There is more to RPGing than repetitive hack'n'slash, all IMHO.

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Originally posted by Fry

I dislike d100 systems because most of the time you just don't need that extra precision. If 96-100 is a critical hit, why don't you just roll a d20 and say 20 is a crit?

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Originally posted by Testament

The new World of Darkness system is very similar to the old one, with two enormous differences, other than the reorganising of stats. You still have dots in skills and stats that combine to form your pool for any task where there's a roll needed.
1. You always roll for 8s on the d10s, and needing multiples is quite rare.
2. Difficulty reduces your dice pool, rather than changing the target number.

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Originally posted by Sean-Khan

Well said, that's why I have my need to develop a perfect system [:D] Maybe it can never be done, maybe everyone just have different tastes, maybe it's roleplayers's philosopher's stone.

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Originally posted by Sean-Khan

I think I've seen one game that had good idea about this (Fudge?); It game the reader a choise of what dice the game would use.

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Originally posted by Zeb

A friend of mine used a system of hit points and battle points. Hit points were those maxed points at first level. Battle points were all the points rolled as a character progresses beyond in levels beyond the first. During the course of combat battle points are deducted as a character takes damage and then into the hit points if he gets low enough. However, if an enemy scores a critical hit, the hit points are deducted first, and when they are gone, your PC drops, no matter how many battle points you have remaining. We had a tendency to fear critical hits.

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Originally posted by PatEllis15



When I was in college I played all kinds of games. Now I have a hard time playing twice a month.

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Originally posted by Count Dooku
Older folks who are lucky to play once a month (like me) dont play enough to want different systems. There are some of us who still consult the PHB 3 or more times a session. The last thing we want is to have to learn a new set of rules for a new RPG. Id get rules for one game confused with another.

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