Re: Star Wars: Armour and damage: straw poll

On Feb 7, 9:03=A0pm, Peter Knutsen <pe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> It seems to me that the real problem is how very *coarsegrained* the
> system is, for those situations where plusses don't matter. You end up
> having only five or six values, from 1d6 to 5d6, and maybe up to 6d6.

Five or Six values is about half what I see for the typical human
range in the more popular rpg designs (athough it about equals the
typical above average 'bonus' range), so I agree it's rather coarse.
That degree of lumping is generally only found in systems attempting
to be very simple and general.

But I don't consider this to be the "real problem'. Star Wars
shouldn't be ran on the details IMO or it will fail to be Star Wars.
It how that range is used that causes problems for the genre IMO.