gamesmeister
Banded Mongoose
I don't yet have the game (it can't come soon enough though!!), but the halving rule seems to be a real bone of contention out there.
It's probably been suggested somewhere already, but it occurs to me a better approach may be to allow a character with a skill over 100% to split their skill into two separate values, and make a roll against each, taking the best result. So a skill of 101% could split their skill into say 80% and 21%, 60% and 41%, or even 100% and 1%. Obviously they need to declare the target numbers before rolling any dice, but it should avoid most of the statistical anomolies created by the halving rule (at least, that's what my mathematically challenged brain tells me) and can't really be considered computation (which MRQ allegedly tries to avoid).
Someone with over 200% would split their skill into 3 rolls, and so on.
Just a thought anyway.
And to finish my inaugural post, a *huge* thank you to Mongoose for returning this classic to us. If you can produce supplements anything like the quality of the original RQ2 products, I will be one very happy man!
It's probably been suggested somewhere already, but it occurs to me a better approach may be to allow a character with a skill over 100% to split their skill into two separate values, and make a roll against each, taking the best result. So a skill of 101% could split their skill into say 80% and 21%, 60% and 41%, or even 100% and 1%. Obviously they need to declare the target numbers before rolling any dice, but it should avoid most of the statistical anomolies created by the halving rule (at least, that's what my mathematically challenged brain tells me) and can't really be considered computation (which MRQ allegedly tries to avoid).
Someone with over 200% would split their skill into 3 rolls, and so on.
Just a thought anyway.
And to finish my inaugural post, a *huge* thank you to Mongoose for returning this classic to us. If you can produce supplements anything like the quality of the original RQ2 products, I will be one very happy man!
