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    This document discusses potential modifications to the dice rolling mechanics in the Trail of Cthulhu roleplaying game. It proposes doubling difficulty numbers and value of spent ability points. When rolling, players would roll two six-sided dice (2d6) and choose one, with the option to suffer a drawback for choosing the "black die." It also presents two tables showing the probabilities of success with different target numbers and spent ability points for the standard 1d6 + 1 per point method versus an alternative of 1d20 + 1d6 per point. Finally, it proposes a dice pool mechanic where rolling doubles on dice adds 1 to the total, allowing for difficulties higher than 6.

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    This document discusses potential modifications to the dice rolling mechanics in the Trail of Cthulhu roleplaying game. It proposes doubling difficulty numbers and value of spent ability points. When rolling, players would roll two six-sided dice (2d6) and choose one, with the option to suffer a drawback for choosing the "black die." It also presents two tables showing the probabilities of success with different target numbers and spent ability points for the standard 1d6 + 1 per point method versus an alternative of 1d20 + 1d6 per point. Finally, it proposes a dice pool mechanic where rolling doubles on dice adds 1 to the total, allowing for difficulties higher than 6.

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    Dice Statistics Trail of Cthulhu

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    This document discusses potential modifications to the dice rolling mechanics in the Trail of Cthulhu roleplaying game. It proposes doubling difficulty numbers and value of spent ability points. When rolling, players would roll two six-sided dice (2d6) and choose one, with the option to suffer a drawback for choosing the "black die." It also presents two tables showing the probabilities of success with different target numbers and spent ability points for the standard 1d6 + 1 per point method versus an alternative of 1d20 + 1d6 per point. Finally, it proposes a dice pool mechanic where rolling doubles on dice adds 1 to the total, allowing for difficulties higher than 6.

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    [Trail of Cthulhu] Statistics dice!

    Double the difficulty and value of spent points, and roll 2d6. Twice the dice! Can't remember what froum is was on but I read a nice elegant little tweak: Roll 2d6, one black one white, the players can choose either d6 but the black one means they suffer some kind of drawback. -Multiply all difficulty numbers by 3, so instead of a scale of 2 to 8, it's 6 to 24 (although honestly you're gonna use 5 to 25 if you're making it up yourself). Roll 1d20. For every point you spend from your pool, add another 1d6. So if you spend 3 points, you'll be rolling 1d20+3d6.

    Here's the probabilities for the default method (1d6 + 1 per point), for every target number from 2 to 8, spending from 0 to 6 points: Code:
    TN 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 +0 83% 67% 50% 33% 17% 0% 0% +1 100% 83% 67% 50% 33% 17% 0% +2 100% 100% 83% 67% 50% 33% 17% +3 100% 100% 100% 83% 67% 50% 33% +4 100% 100% 100% 100% 83% 67% 50% +5 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 83% 67% +6 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 83%

    And here's 1d20 + 1d6 per point : Code:


    TN 2->6 3->9 4->12 5->15 6->18 7->21 8->24 1d20 75% 60% 45% 30% 15% 0% 0% +1d6 92% 78% 62% 48% 32% 18% 5% +2d6 99% 92% 80% 65% 50% 35% 20% +3d6 100% 98% 93% 82% 67% 52% 38% +4d6 100% 100% 98% 93% 83% 70% 55% +5d6 100% 100% 100% 98% 94% 85% 72% +6d6 100% 100% 100% 100% 98% 94% 86%

    How about dice pools? When you use any General Ability, you roll one die for free. Then, for every point of the ability you spend, you get an extra die to roll. To succeed, you need any one of those dice to hit the Difficulty Number. For example, if the Difficulty is 6, you need any one of those dice to roll a 6. Also, you could say that doubles add 1 to the number rolled. So, if you roll two sixes, that's effectively a 7. If you roll three, that's effectively 8. That means that you can have Difficulty Numbers above 6.

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