• paholg@lemm.ee
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      I really like the Genesys dice system. It sucks that they’re proprietary dice, but you get them in various shapes and colors and it feels good to just roll a big handful of them. The main appeal is that you get something more interesting than a pass/fail result.

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        Proprietary dice are just an hour of 3d printing away. I was curious what dice you were talking about so I looked them up, it appears the originals are hard to find but people are already selling printed dice to take up the slack.

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      Yeah. DCC holds an appeal for me specifically because you get to roll D7s, D16s, D24s, etc.

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        …yep, ever if our fantasy campaigns were to stray from fifth-edition lingua-franca, DCC’s zocchi dice tug at my deviant heartstrings something fierce…

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            …oh sure, we could switch at anytime but part of the beauty of everyone playing the same system is full interoperability across pick-up campaigns regardless of source material, DM, or player…you can kind of pretend like everything takes place in a shared multiverse without it, but it becomes more of a tacked-on narrative conceit (with a lot of mechanical finesse to support) rather than an emergent property of shared system mechanics…

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      Flat distribution is great when you want swingy results and the drama that comes with it, and bell curves when you want a “realistic” chance of your character succseeding on a task roll.