On Aug 6, 2016, at 10:41 AM, Jacob Kruger <[email protected]> wrote:
Really depends on type of game, and different circumstances/events/environments.
But, probably the most common one in certain forms of role-playing is rolling
against something like one of your character's skill percentages, where you'd
then generally roll two 10-sided dice, with one of them being related to 10's,
and the other one 1's, so if I rolled 4 and 5, then it would count as 45%, and
if the skill I was rolling against was currently at 50, then I would have
rolled under my skill percentage/level, and would thus succeed, and that's why
you, through your character's lifetime, want to improve certian skills through
gaining experience modifier points, from various ways, etc.
Oh yes, and, say for example, this was during a bit of a hostile encounter, and
I had rolled against my weapons skill, and had succeeded, then I might roll
something like a 20-sided die to determine which location point on the enemy I
had struck them on, and then depending on the weapon I was using, I would roll
different combinations of dice to figure out actual damage, so, for example,
maybe something like a broadsword would have a damage total worked out using
something like a combination of 1 8-sided die, then modified based on a couple
of other values, etc.
And, the common terminology is something like 1d8 = 1 8-sided die roll, and
2d10 could either relate to just rolling two 10-sided dice, and adding up their
total, or could equate to rolling the form of percentage mentioned above.
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
"Resistance is futile, but, acceptance is versatile..."
On 2016-08-06 4:50 PM, Sharon Hooley wrote:
Hi,
I'm not into dungions-and-dragon-type gamer, but I'm curious as to how a die is
used.
Thanks,
Sharon H.
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