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Spiteski posted:I haven't backed it myself so haven't had a chance to read it yet. Based on what you've said though, yea that's maybe a bit swingy. AnyDice puts it at a 33.5% chance of success at target of 16 which is uhh... concerning if that is meant to be something you're decent at. 19% for a target of 18 which is holy crap bad. So the basics are you have main Attribute spreads in three traits that are expected to be 6-7, 4-5, and 2-3 for the most part. The TN for rolls is 20 minus the relevant Attribute. There's a sidebar that explains this is meant for "long-term" play, but if you're running a one-shot or just don't like how whiffy things are, make the default TN 18 minus Attribute instead. When you roll, you're not rolling a normal d12. It's a d10 with extra stuff going on. You've got 1-10, a Gandalf rune, and an Eye rune. If you roll a G-rune, you automatically succeed. If you're Miserable (you have more Shadow than Hope) and roll an Eye, you automatically fail. If you're not Miserable, an Eye just counts as 0 (so you probably fail anyway). The d6s are mostly normal 1-6. You take Your roll can be Favoured or Ill-Favoured, which is just advantage/disadvantage on the d12. You can spend Hope to add a d6 to your pool. If you're Inspired (often by having a Distinctive Feature that is relevant, like being a Tracker), spending Hope adds 2d6 instead. Characters typically have maximum Hope scores in the range of 10-17, but regaining it during an adventure is very limited. An ally can also spend their Hope to grant you 1d, or 2d if you're their "Fellowship Focus" (like with Sam and Frodo). So at base, the chances for success on stuff you're decent at is about 50% at character creation, but you can pretty readily bump that up to 75% or better on a somewhat regular basis, and this is apparently the expected mode of play. I'm not totally against it, but I feel it's a little much for you to have to rely so much on Hope even for core competencies, and the degree of expected failure for stuff you're not already decent at is a little too harsh for my taste. I would definitely use the -2 TN sidebar even in a game I expect to last a long time. * Specifically the rune for "L", and I don't remember ever reading why that one. For "Lucky"? That Old Tree fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Oct 4, 2021 |
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Woops, that's right, you add all success dice, not just the highest. I'm reading like three different books right now.
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dwarf74 posted:No worries, me too lol Yeah, I'm a really big fan of TOR. It does a lot of work to make itself a toolbox for creating specifically Tolkien-style adventures, and it's mostly pretty successful. I wish I could get a more regular game of it going, but I wish that about a lot of games.
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