[Design] d100 mechanic

[Curufea]

Why use Tarot cards?
  Make up your own!  Huge imaginative potential.

Lev Lafayette <lev_lafayette at yahoo.com.au> wrote:  
Using Tarot would be interesting. d10 is easy to
translate with the minor arcana. But using a full suit
is a d14, which has limited use.

And as for the major aracana.. Don't get me started on
the practicalities of a d22!


--- Curufea  wrote:

> I still prefer cards to dice ;-p
>   It's the potential to be more of a imagination
> stimulator - they can  have pictures and words. 
> Which are more interesting than just  numbers..
> And cards are as tactile as dice, and can be played
> with in more variation.
>   
> Lev Lafayette  wrote:  
> A cute thought from last night...
> 
> Tradition has it that a d100 roll uses '00' as 100.
> In
> Mimesis (like RQ and other BRP games) this would be
> bad juju... But why not make it good juju?
> 
> Why not read '00' as zero, an automatic critical
> success (as much as is possible within the bounds of
> reality)?
> 
> In addition the skill system currently rates from
> 00-100 (zero because it is possible to have 'no
> skill'
> in a subject), which is really a range of 101. Why
> not
> make it 00-99 and if anyone reaches 100 they make a
> "paradigm shift" (to use Kuhn's phrase) in the
> subject
> in question?
> 
> I'll get back to my studies now...
> 
> 
> Lev
> 
> Lev Lafayette
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> http://au.geocities.com/lev_lafayette
> 
> 
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