What is your favorite action-resolution system (and why)?

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 2:30 am

If it's an obscure one, feel free to elaborate on the mechanics.

PhoneLobster · Post by **PhoneLobster** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 4:47 am

Are we talking the basic roll mechanic, the basic turn mechanic, what?

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 4:51 am

Basic roll mechanic.

ggroy · Post by **ggroy** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 4:56 am

Murtak · Post by **Murtak** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:01 am

Shadowrun 4 style roll attribute + skill dice, search for fives, because it is simple, works fine for everything but very low dicepool situations and is easy to tie in with other mechanics (edge for example).

I'd love the Shadowrun 3rd edition system, except it doesn't work for about half of it's TNs.

GURPS is nice enough for most stuff and unified mechanics are always good.

And I absolutely adore the Millenium's End hit "table". Basically you get a clear disc with the numbers from 100 to 1 printed on it in a spiral. You have some common outlines with the game, anything else the DM has to draw. Aim the disc at the picture, roll to hit. Your to hit roll generates a number from 1 to 100. Find your number on the disc. That's where your shot went.

PhoneLobster · Post by **PhoneLobster** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 7:35 am

Psychic Robot wrote:Basic roll mechanic.

Roll one dice add bonuses, compare to target number+bonuses. Equal or greater is a success.

My preferred dice is a 1d20 but for some scales of RPG I could see 1d10, 1d12, or 1d30 being acceptable.

It's simple it's transparent, it isn't full of really shitty maths. Basically anything else involving some zany combination of generic dice is just some designer somewhere wanking, really hard.

ggroy · Post by **ggroy** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:20 pm

mean_liar · Post by **mean_liar** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:23 pm

Whatever's fast, firstly, and whatever serves the genre secondly.

White Wolf's old rolling system was ass... unless you were playing Street Fighter, since then its stupid wackiness was a feature rather than a bug.

I do like Rolemaster.

Mask_De_H · Post by **Mask_De_H** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:54 pm

I like the roll and keep idea in Weapons of the Gods, as well as the Shades/Plus and Minus system that the FATE system uses.

zeruslord · Post by **zeruslord** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:14 am

The coolest one I've seen is the Houses Of the Blooded system. It's a dicepool system rolling for narrative control with a fixed TN. You can drop a die to get an extra clause if you succeed.