> > Tim said: > > And I love the idea of +/- tokens. Aside from making Fudge easily > > accessible to 6 year olds (which is great in and of itself) it could > > be used to help grown adults keep track of more persitent modifiers. > > For instance, "You've been gassed, you're now at (toss token) -1 to > > all actions until the gas wears off." > >Then David asked: >So what do you use for +/-? You could use dimes/pennies (I like the color >differences.) What about cards? Has anyone tried using a card-augmented >system for FUDGE? Yeah, I use pennies. I made my own fudge dice by using 1/4" round color coding stickers. Plus sides have a yellow sticker with a big "+" on it. Minus sides are blue sticker with a "-" on it. Blank sides are a blank red sticker. I put those exact same stickers onto a handful of pennies and created yellow plus tokens and blue minus tokens. To make this even easier on him, the traits on his character sheet all have a number of yellow plusses or blue minuses after them to indicate the number of tokens he gets for the trait. Therefore, a typical roll is something like this: Jacob (my son) is playing Mr. Potato Head (it was a Toy Story type game). He's trying to rescue his friend Lenny who he knows is stuck in on top of the tall dresser. [You'll note that we use a slightly skewed Fudge scale.] Jacob: I want to take off my arm and throw it up there like a hook. I'll tie a string to it or something. Me: Okay, look at your sheet. What skill do you need? Jacob: Throwing? [He lays out 2 + tokens for his Good throwing skill] Me: Well, it's really high up [I lay out two - tokens] but you're feeling lucky today [I give him a + token just for having such a clever idea] [Jacob has 3 + and 2 - tokens out. He rolls 4dF, getting 2 +'s, 1 -, and 1 blank. Now all the dice and tokens are simply +'s and -'s to get rid of. He pulls off the blank, and then pulls off +/- pairs until there's nothing but 2 +'s left on the table.] Me: So how did you do? Jacob [Checking the chart]: I got 2 plusses, so... Good! Me: Excellent! Your arm makes it right to the top and grabs onto the edge of the open drawer. You tug a couple of times and it seems solid. You ready to try climbing? Etc. This scene is pretty much verbatim from an actual game we played. My son is so damn cool. Mike Jones -- ----------------------------------------------- The Fudge List FAQ is at http://fudge.phoenyx.net/ ** Don't start deliberately off-topic threads. **