Inspired by here (http://jrients.blogspot.com/2008/11/draft-cinder-house-rules-part-1.html), here (http://shirosrpg.blogspot.com/2008/11/order-of-d30.html), and here (http://www.rpgblog2.com/2008/11/order-of-d30.html).
So, do you use the d20's forgotten big brother for anything in your games?
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I have a few tables inspired by the old Armory tables, but mostly I keep a few handy for the oddball games that use them, or for their easy divisibility, or to add orders of magnitude to crit tables.
I will add that mine are numbered 0-9 three times, with a - set, an unmodified set, and a + set, which I think makes them more readily useful. I haven't seen any like that in the store for a while.
Ahem...let us just say, hell yes. ;)
Bill
Yeah, I've got a bunch, however I mostly use them for real life adventure (http://www.mortonslist.com), rather than RPGs.
I'd let my players use it if they wanted to, and we owned any. So I guess I know what I need for christmas!
Are there any good systems making use of the d30? Strikes me that the 3.33% chance of a natural 1 or 30 could be a sweet spot for criticals, neither too frequent nor too infrequent.
How different would a version of D20 look with a D30? Like, would you suck worse at lower levels and take longer to be awesome at higher levels? Would combat have a different feel?
Thoughts?
Quote from: Kaz;270403How different would a version of D20 look with a D30? Like, would you suck worse at lower levels and take longer to be awesome at higher levels? Would combat have a different feel?
Thoughts?
Well, there'd definitely be less of a chance for crits and fumbles, right? Assuming everything stayed the same, you'd have 1:30 chance of a fumble, and likely either a 1:15 or 1:30 chance of a crit. It would make them a bit more rare, in any case.
As someone mentioned before the charts from the Armory. We've used those before and for the oddball occasion. Our group played around with a homebrew using a D30 as the main die but nothing came of it.
Still we all seem to have a couple of these in our dice collections.
I have one d30 in my dice tray. It is excellent for traps that have a wide degree of lethality potential, or for chucking at players that continuously quote Monty Python bits all night.
I used mine to lay siege to the DM's screen fortress. Our DM used several screens together to form a mighty barrier to PC incursions and spy attempts.