Thanks to everybody for their kind advice on PBEM dice rolling. I feel more
confident now that I know several tried and true ways of handling things.
Dave
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From: "A. E. Naughtie"
Reply-To: gamers@phoenyx.net
To: gamers@phoenyx.net
Subject: Re: GM: How does your site work?
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 22:06:44 CST
>I suppose I could do all the rolling myself as DM, but the temptation to
>fudge the results would be high.
I ran a Shadowrun PBeM game in the late nineties where I
rolled what I called the "frictionless dice" and the players
rolled (dice server) the "tension dice."
The rule was as follows:
if the scene had character-changing implications to the players, they could
roll their own. I always allowed one re-roll for something I had rolled,
but the player had to take it good-or-bad.
overall, the players mostly wanted me to roll the dice..... after a while, I
did all of it.... and more often than not, the answer was, "The die roll is
influence...not law."
.a.e.naughtie.
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