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posted by [personal profile] evilmagnus at 09:42pm on 03/02/2005
System's also useful for the "I want to do X crackass thing...hey, it works!" Independence Day situation.

and sometimes it bites you in the ass when your system lets a party member *accidentally* bind the Great Evil Lord of the game by rolling a string of open-ended d100. :)

...yes, that happened to me, once. I learned my lesson and moved on.
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posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 09:52pm on 03/02/2005
See, I think that's awesome. I think that is *exactly* what system is there for.

See #1 above. If y'all aren't prepared for one of the possible results of the roll, why are you rolling?

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posted by [personal profile] evilmagnus at 09:59pm on 03/02/2005
How can you prepare for a 1 in 10,000 chance?

I mean, really? :)

Conversely, in the same game, the Grand Final Battle on the Mountaintop devolved into a mad scramble in the mud for Ye Sacred Dagger as *both* Hero and Villain rolled fumbles and dropped their weapons.

...yeah, it was funny, even at the time, but it was a rather modernist take on the Epic Climax.
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posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 01:01am on 04/02/2005
May I suggest that you were using a system that sucked?

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posted by [personal profile] evilmagnus at 01:12am on 04/02/2005
Well, I was 14 at the time. Running Rolemaster for the first time. So I don't blame the system so much as my inexperience.

I did have a kick-ass shamanistic magic system, though.
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