Re: [DL] Bigger dice or more of them?

[Jesse Burneko <jburneko@yahoo.com>]

I just want to take the opportunity to add right now
that d4s RULE!  I don't know if it's just luck with my
posse or what but whenever they get into a gun fight
with some everyday joe they do 3d6 with their
peacemakers right?  Okay so they usually role like
9-13 points of damage and the occasionaly 18-20 with
aces.

Now my party comes across a creature with armor rating
1 and their doing 3d4 damage.  And suddenly their
blowing this thing away.  I mean roles of 25-30 points
of damage were not uncommon with all the damn aces. 
So now when I say, the creature has a really tough
hide they all chear.

Go figure.

Jesse

--- Andrew Ross <arosslaw@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Howdy.
> 
> I'm gearing up to run an 1890's Cthulhu game using
> the Deadlands rules.
> I love the CoC setting and adventures, but can't
> stand the system, so
> every now and then I try converting it over to yet
> another game system
> and giving it a whirl. So far I've tried GURPS,
> Unisystem, Over the Edge
> and Castle Falkenstein. While all worked to one
> degree or another, none
> of them really grabbed me, so now its Deadlands
> turn.
> 
> I've got the Adios A-Migo dime novel which gives
> some nice conversion
> notes in the back, but the statistic conversions are
> giving me some
> pause. The dime novel gives a chart to match
> deadlands die types with
> the CoC numbers, with a coordination of 1. BUT, it
> also says that you
> can drop the die type by one and raise the
> coordination by +2, so an 18
> can be 1d12, 3d10, or 5d8.
> 
> My problem, never having run Deadlands before, is I
> can't really tell
> which is better. Obviously more dice means a better
> chance at an ace,
> but a higher die type gives a larger range of
> numbers. My knee-jerk
> response is to reduce everything 1 level and give it
> 3 dice, but that's
> going to make everything look an awful lot alike.
> 
> So, I'm hoping those of you more familiar with the
> system, or those
> who've done some conversion work yourselves, can
> help me out here. Is
> lots of smaller dice better, or fewer big dice? The
> number of dice only
> matter for trait checks, so for skills it would seem
> that bigger dice
> would be better. What's the ratio of trait-to-skill
> checks, generally
> speaking?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Andrew Ross (arosslaw@earthlink.net)
> 
> 
> To unsubscribe, send a message to esquire@gamerz.net
> with
> 	unsubscribe deadlands
> as the BODY of the message.  The SUBJECT is ignored.
> 


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 
a year!  http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/