They are not called fudge dice because they are fudged (as in faked); they are called fudge dice because they were popularised alongside the FUDGE roleplaying game from the 90's.
In Fate, a FUDGE-family game, rolls are always 4dF, which produces a particular bell curve. The curve is centered on +0 being the most common result, with ~88% of rolls ranging between -2 and +2.
Yeah, I can see how having a +2 to a roll with that type of curve can really skew your results, or especially a +4, with no chance of getting a < 0 result
Yeah. It's quite different, to, say, rolling a d20 with a +5 in the relevant skill. Are you going to do well? Who knows! Are you going to do better than the person who invested in getting that skill up to +15? There's a pretty solid chance you will!
Also we have a little bit of room to play around with our dice since we're rolling 4dF. Atomic Robo has a stunt that does something special if your dice roll has exactly three of the same faces shown (e.g. + + + 0, but not + + + +), and a stunt called "There are no rules!" which has you replace one of the dice with a d6, just the once.
There's a Weapons/Armor variant that makes each + in your roll count for extra damage, or extra damage reduction, when you're attacking someone.
4 is enough dice that youre like wow, such dice, many rolls, but not soo much that you are dropping a wave of dice onto the table, rolling onto the floor, knocking minis away before their tide
@JoshuaAslanSmith I bet it would, but I've yet to play a game that's made it that far. The most I've ever rolled was 4d6. Most of the guys I play with end up taking breaks or swapping campaigns around right at the cusp of the really cool stuff.
In a link I gave above with article about GM tricks author shows funny and interesting example with blatant and sudden putting ogres in the game. When I discussed things and tricks that I like in DW with my player I mentioned this joke and it instantly become his favourite joke.
I think about picking a good music score for ogres. It should be suitable for energetic action.
And in the end I want it to be recognizable for players as "Sudden Ogres Theme".
Any thoughts and links to soundcloud or simmilar service will be appreciated! :)
@RollingFeles Is there a particular style you aim for? I tend to play anything from dungeon folk/dungeon synth to heavy metal to stoner/doom metal and sometimes even black metal for my games. I can think of a number of songs suitable for ogres, but what I would recommend really depends on the tone you're going for.
Also, I pretty much just use Youtube because it's the easiest thing to very quickly find what I'm looking for and it's easy to make playlists
Plus I find Youtube's recommendation system is actually really great at finding similar things and I can almost always click a new song/video and get what I'm expecting
Anything that would suit action that will follow with sudden ogre appearance and something that would be memorable. Style is not important, but I would like it to be more applicable for fantasy, so I want less obvious electronic tunes.
@LegendaryDude Thanks for advice!
@JoshuaAslanSmith hey, I can't even remember it. I definitely will check it out. Thanks!
general pro-tip on DMing with music, if you're ever at a loss for what to play just type "dungeon synth" into youtube and pick one with a picture you think fits what you're looking for
@JoshuaAslanSmith Really depends on what you're going for, I'm known for playing Iron Maiden during combats. I'd play Blind Guardian at like, a particularly triumphant moment
Yeah, I have several great tracks in my memory, which is more a ballads in their own right, than a bg music for a game. And Blind Guardian is one of the first things that came up in my mind :)
@JoshuaAslanSmith Ahhh, I should probably do that, I've got one or two. But the site has mostly moved to rules questions from what I can see, which I'm no longer good enough to answer. Was a rules guru in the 3.0 days, but don't have the obsessive focus to memorize entire rule books anymore.
Super pleasant newbie experience I just had: user comes in from another site, leaves an answer that was a genuine attempt to be helpful, but they didn't know about our system tagging practices, so it was effectively not-an-answer regarding the game involved. I fill them in on their tagging practices, they say thanks, they clean up by deleting their answer while I was halfway through writing a comment to inform them that might need to happen. I hope I see them around again.
I'll never forget the day I discovered the Gary Gygax thread on enworld, I spent three hours reading his responses to all the various questions he received
Of course it was super sad when I got to the end of the thread :'(
Yeah that kinda sucks, but he did pretty much verbatim ask for "how should I play this" as a matter of peoples' opinions.
People handled him as well as they could, I think.
@Adam I rewrote it in such a way I think it's OK now, and hits the target you were after as best we can ask for.
Additionally since he's coming from an OD&D and AD&D background, players of those editions might understand very well where he's coming from in terms of game expectations from the class.
It's a site policy issue. He's a big poster on some of the other SE sites. If he just stopped into the chat room, we could give him a couple brainstormy ideas and he'd be on his way, with the only difference being the little bit of rep that didn't go around.
Also, his previous question, although well received, probably went through a round of critique in its first revision, since it was effectively asking people to propose whatever reasons they think might be the case. It drew five close votes, too, and that probably didn't happen without comment discussions.
Yes, his first question was closed and re-opened, but his comment indicated that he had been told his questions didn't fit many times (not the twice that is visible on his profile)
@LegendaryDude I think you and I upvoted that comment simultaneously. (Or I've unlocked a secret privilege, where it upvote a comment and its score increments by +2.)
I was very lucky to start the site by answering a question that didn't hit BS/GS, and from there my natural tendency to boast about my players does me in good stead for answers, but I still struggle with asking questions sometimes.
@BESW Do you remember that kickstarter that planned content for every game? I sent them a question asking them what their plans were for targeting Fate Core and Apocalypse World, and received a fairly well-educated response. (They were, in fact, aware of the sheer breadth of the landscape, calling out themselves that there were thousands of games!)
Turns out he's the dodecahedron from The Phantom Tollbooth, but five of the faces have been worn off from parenting: "Happy", "Patient", "Nervous", "Stern Correction", and "Twelve-Second Vacation While She's Buckled In And You're Walking To The Driver's Side" are all gone!
@SevenSidedDie I think that's stolen--and greatly whitewashed--from Louis CK.
But it changed my life. Not only do I give myself permission to take that vacation when I'm feeling the need, I make a habit of taking it even if I don't feel the need.
@nitsua60 The best lesson parenthood has taught me is that time management must include good things for oneself, not just all the stuff that needs doing. Taking care of the personal infrastructure deliberately, not just hoping it fits into the cracks, is important for being able to do that stuff!
I asked this question a while ago, about the possibility of wielding a 2-hand weapon in one hand.
Someone has recently posted this answer, which I feel doesn't answer the question, it merely rants about why it shouldn't be used, rather than whether or not this is possible.
If it is really a case of asking about the solution instead of the problem, it's OK to leave comments of the form "Can you state the real problem you're trying to solve so we can suggest alternate solutions?" or similar requests for more information (if it's relevant/needed).
However, in some ca...
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@Ahriman Yes, he's basically just explaining common knowledge, but that's all based off assumption. Clearly a 1-handed great weapon is OP, so if this even was a mechanic, there would obviously be drawbacks to wielding it with only 1 hand.
Personally my D&D group would've blasted away most of his concerns with a simple "I'm allowing it now because it's cool but if it makes problems we'll revisit the issue."
Treating a GM's word as inviolate law which not even he can revoke is just... extreme.
Inherently wrong? No. But it might introduce weirdness.
(Note, also, that D&D is one of the few systems where editions are so drastically different. Most other games with multiple editions would care very little about mixing and matching across them.)
@Ben This isn't an answer to your question, but a possible "balanced" solution
5e doesn't care about "balance" like 4e does, as it's not nearly as "gamist" in its design so it's okay if things aren't perfect
What you could do is make him attack at disadvantage with one hand for the great weapon and create a feat similar to Monkey Grip that removes the disadvantage
That way he's "earned" it and it makes him feel like his character has progressed while still being able to do the cool thing.
And since he's a fighter, he's got feats/ability score increases to burn.
@LegendaryDude Like I mentioned before, I realise that this is relevant to play, but as far as the rpg.se answering goes, it doesn't match up. Hence why I asked about it here.
@BESW Monday night during character creation, we had an entertaining interlude improv-ing what it would be like to have a dungeon as a member of the party after someone briefly misread “psion” as “prison”.
