flaw_patrol
First Post
Hi, this is my first post after years of lurking. I’ve been training with kettlebells for a few years. I’m about to start ROP for the first time and the dice roll portion put me in mind of Dungeons & Dragons.
As a player I have a bunch of polyhedral dice lying around. The program as written calls for 2d6 minutes of swings/snatches. I was wondering about using 1d12 or 3d4 instead? The range of outcomes is similar but the probability distribution is different: 1d12 is completely flat, 2d6 is triangular, and 3d4 is bell shaped.
That led me to think of another D&D idea: critical hits. For those unfamiliar, if you roll 20 on an attack roll you can increase the damage by either a) doubling the damage dice, b) rolling twice as many damage dice, or c) taking the max value of the damage dice.
In the context of ROP, I was thinking that before each session I could roll a d20, and if I roll a 20, I have to increase the dice roll in one of the ways described above. I see this as an application of Pavel’s concept in S&S of going “all out” every couple of weeks.
There’s probably a way to apply the idea of advantage/disadvantage as well, where you roll twice and take the higher/lower of the two outcomes. Maybe on days you feel under the weather.
In practice I don’t think these ideas would make much difference, but I’d be interested to hear what people who have run the program think. Maybe I’ll try it this way and post how it goes. Thanks!
As a player I have a bunch of polyhedral dice lying around. The program as written calls for 2d6 minutes of swings/snatches. I was wondering about using 1d12 or 3d4 instead? The range of outcomes is similar but the probability distribution is different: 1d12 is completely flat, 2d6 is triangular, and 3d4 is bell shaped.
That led me to think of another D&D idea: critical hits. For those unfamiliar, if you roll 20 on an attack roll you can increase the damage by either a) doubling the damage dice, b) rolling twice as many damage dice, or c) taking the max value of the damage dice.
In the context of ROP, I was thinking that before each session I could roll a d20, and if I roll a 20, I have to increase the dice roll in one of the ways described above. I see this as an application of Pavel’s concept in S&S of going “all out” every couple of weeks.
There’s probably a way to apply the idea of advantage/disadvantage as well, where you roll twice and take the higher/lower of the two outcomes. Maybe on days you feel under the weather.
In practice I don’t think these ideas would make much difference, but I’d be interested to hear what people who have run the program think. Maybe I’ll try it this way and post how it goes. Thanks!
