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sos@oz.plymouth.edu (Steffan O'Sullivan) writes:
>Get two d6, of different colors.  Each player and GM announces which
>color represents better than average, and which color represents worse
>than average.
...
>At any action, roll these two dice.  If the difference between them is
>0 or 1, you did as well as your descriptive label.  That is, if you're
>Good at something, and the difference between the two dice is 0 or 1,
>you were Good at that action at that time.  The GM announces what level
>is need to complete an action successfully, if there is no contest of
>qualities. If the difference is more than 1, then whatever number is the 
>*smaller* of the two numbers is how many steps you did above or below your
>descriptive label.  
...
>Any comments on this?  Is this better or worse than the d12 business?

	Wow. This is *much* better than the d12 business, IMO. It removes 
having to remember those darn numbers, and it removes the arbitrary 
success/failure distinction. It is easy to determine what the difficulty 
of a task is - it is just how good one has to be to do that task most of 
the time. 
	I don't think the system is any more limiting than the stat 
distinctions - why should tasks be any more finely grained than people? 

	It will take a little getting used to - wish there were some 
simpler mechanism for generating a similar distribution of results. There 
is something a little counter-intuitive to the comparison of the dice: 
compare, see which is higher, and take the minimum. 
	It could be that this is easily overcome - I don't know. We'll 
have to try it and see, I think. 

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