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Theophage
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:30 pm    Post subject: ACEing a roll Reply with quote
Now here's a question which is probably addressed somewhere else, but I'll be damned if I can find it.

The rule book says that when you ace a roll, say rolling a 6 on a d6, you roll again and add the result. The problem with this is that you can never roll a 6 on a d6 (or a 12, or an 1Cool using this method. Other games that use "exploding" dice rolls have you subtract one and then add, and this seems to make more sense.

So do I just add like the rules say, or was that an oversight?
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:03 pm    Post subject: Re: ACEing a roll Reply with quote
Theophage wrote:
Now here's a question which is probably addressed somewhere else, but I'll be damned if I can find it.

The rule book says that when you ace a roll, say rolling a 6 on a d6, you roll again and add the result. The problem with this is that you can never roll a 6 on a d6 (or a 12, or an 18) using this method. Other games that use "exploding" dice rolls have you subtract one and then add, and this seems to make more sense.

So do I just add like the rules say, or was that an oversight?


Nope, do it just like the rules say. Not being able to roll a multiple of an exact die type has no effect on the system overall, so there is no "problem" associated with it.

One of the tricky parts of SW is that it often isn't just a matter of how any specific rule works, but how different rules all work together as a whole. It's kind of commonplace in the system, but with a little time it becomes fairly apparent.

Hope this helps!
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