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[Ozarck]

2. You can get +1 to +3 on any stat or skill, however rather than being D6+1, thus removing the chance of a 1, it instead expands the 5, so to speak. So standard rtd has 5 as a perfect success. with +1 you would have 4-5 as a perfect success. At+3 You have an 85ish% chance of total success or overshot success, with a 15% chance of horrible failure.  No matter how good you get, that 1 never goes away.

This seems problematic, based on our experience in ER with high powered characters, and your known issue with balancing for challenge in those cases.

Otherwise, seems fairly standard and relatively engaging.

[piecewise]

2. You can get +1 to +3 on any stat or skill, however rather than being D6+1, thus removing the chance of a 1, it instead expands the 5, so to speak. So standard rtd has 5 as a perfect success. with +1 you would have 4-5 as a perfect success. At+3 You have an 85ish% chance of total success or overshot success, with a 15% chance of horrible failure.  No matter how good you get, that 1 never goes away.

This seems problematic, based on our experience in ER with high powered characters, and your known issue with balancing for challenge in those cases.

Otherwise, seems fairly standard and relatively engaging.

Eh, I don't think it will be AS bad because ER removed all the  failures thanks to +1's. This system never removes that failure. No matter how good you get there's always a 1/6 chance of horrible failure. Which is actually far higher than most mainstream games.

[Ozarck]

mmm. Maybe. I'd like to see a couple test cases though. still, I'd probably join either way, especially if I manage to get into the first rotation.

[piecewise]

mmm. Maybe. I'd like to see a couple test cases though. still, I'd probably join either way, especially if I manage to get into the first rotation.

Well, lets break it down statistically.

Normal RTD has chances of 16.6 per number, and 50/50 for success or failure of varying degrees.
If you  have +1, then you have 1/3rd chance for success, 16.6 for utter failure, 16.6 for normal failure, 16.6 for lesser failure and 16.6 for overshoot.
At +2, 50% chance for success, 16.6 for utter failure, failure and overshoot.
At +3, the max, you have 16.6 for utter failure and overshoot, and 2/3rds for success.

So even at max level for a stat or skill, you still have a 1/3rd chance to either fail in a horrible way or succeed with consequences.  There's a roughly 17% chance that your expert sniper will shoot himself in the foot on any particular shot. If you had those odds in real life, things would be very slapstick. 

[MidnightJaguar]

Low fantasy WWII? Count me in.

[piecewise]

Setting up for first mission.

[piecewise]

Pick the emblem for our new brigade of irregulars.

[Gentlefish]

I vote the first.

[Egan_BW]

Number two for sure. They are watching, after all.
Vigilo Confido and all that.

[Xantalos]

I'd go for either top or bottom.

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1:2
2:1
3:0
4:1

[Egan_BW]

We get to vote for multiple options? Then put me down for 4 also.

[Ozarck]

I say bottom

[piecewise]

1:2
2:1
3:0
4:3

[MidnightJaguar]

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