Advantage and Disasvantage

[Loconius]

While reading a certain playtest out there, an idea came to me. During dice roll, if you have a distinct advantage, roll 3 dice and take the two best. If you have a distinct disadvantage take the lower two of three dice. If you don't have either (or you have advantage and disadvantage) then you just roll normally.

Thoughts, feelings?

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

The law of physics should work the same for all characters. So two dice are rolled only by everyone.

 

[Wil Mireu]

What benefit would this bring to play? It seems like it would just make things more one-sided for or against you.

 

[Egil Skallagrimsson]

The rules on difficulties of tasks already cover this very well.

Egil

 

[rust]

I also think that a positive or negative modifier tailored to the
specific situation would make more sense than a more random
dice roll result. With "three dice, pick two" the result can still
be 2 (dice 1/1/1) in the case of a distinct advantage or 12 (di-
ce 6/6/6) in the case of a distinct disadvantage, so the system
tends more towards a game of luck than towards a simulation
of a specific situation where the character has an advantage or
disadvantage. In my view modifiers handle this much better.

 

[Loconius]

All good points, it just came to me while day dreaming. The extra die would come in when the table doesn't know how advantageous or not something is; so the circumstance may not actually provide a bonus or inflict a penalty.

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

When I first started playing Mongoose Traveller, I was the referee. And I kept forgetting to add a difficulty DM to the players rolls. That one DM makes a world of difference, and covers a lot of situations that are internal and external to players.

 

[rust]

The extra die would come in when the table doesn't know how advantageous or not something is; so the circumstance may not actually provide a bonus or inflict a penalty.

I would think that it is the task of the referee to know or decide
how advantageous or not a situation is. :wink:

 

[Loconius]

Fair argument. I guess this idea would fit best if a table implemented something like Fate's Aspects; though a +2 or reroll is already supported by the system.