[TML] The Perfect Character Design

[Richard Aiken]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Jerry W Barrington
<jerry.barrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> Come to think of it, any system that uses die *size* for anything is limited
> to a small enumeration, possibly limited to: d2, d3, d4, d6, d8, d10, d12,
> d20.  That combined with a possible variation in threshold gives a fairly
> limited range of possibilities.  This may or may not be a problem.

Margaret Weis Production's Cortex System (Serenity/BSG) solves this
through addition: above d12, you get d12+2d, d12+d4, d12+d6, etc.
Each of these constructions count as one "larger" die, not two
different dice.  (The d20 is ignored).

-- 
Richard Aiken

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