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Re: BOW, A new brick wargame
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lugnet.gaming
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Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:56:26 GMT
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In lugnet.gaming, Alban NANTY wrote:
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- You only need Bricks to play, even the dices are replaced with bricks.
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I think this is an absolutely fantastic idea! I love the concept, plus the idea
that it’s more statistically balanced. For instance, a normal 1d20 will do
something “somewhere” between 1 and 20, but the odds of a 1 are just as likely
as a 14 or a 20. In your version, you’re more likely to get a “middle number”.
I am curious if it might be more balanced to change the dice roll a bit, though.
As I’ve heard (someone else did a little research on this), a studs-sideways
roll will happen only about 27% of the time. What that means is that (for
example) a Brick Roll of 6, 7, 8, or 9 is virtually the same thing. They’re all
(on average) likely to result in a roll of 2 (actually closer to 1.62, 1.89,
2.16, and 2.43 respectively).
Essentially, it means that you’re unlikely to see very “exciting” rolls. There’s
always that faint hope that a trooper with a knife (1d6) will cut through the
wall of the fortress (1d20).
In the experimentation, a studs-down roll happened about 48% of the time-- quite
a bit more likely. It might help add a little more excitement to the game if you
counted these studs-down rolls instead of only the studs-sideways rolls. For
the above Brick Rolls of 6, 7, 8, 9, counting studs-down rolls results in an
average of 2.88, 3.36, 3.84, and 4.32 respectively, nearly doubling the “normal”
range of a result, but still keeping the “statistically balanced” rolls.
Anyway, just a comment-- I haven’t play-tested it, so I’m not really sure what
the scope of most rolls are “supposed” to be. But something to think about,
anyway.
DaveE
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| (...) Thanks! When I tried it I had some fun to throw the bricks and hope a good result. And yes your are more confident in getting a good result when lauching a lot of bricks than just launching a 1d20. (...) Really? That interests me, could you (...) (18 years ago, 22-Nov-06, to lugnet.gaming, FTX)
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| | BOW, A new brick wargame
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| Hi everybody, Sorry if you already read this message in the gaming forum of the classic-castle site where I already post it. For the other, I want to introduce the brick wargame system I made. The rules and some other goodies can be found here : (...) (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.gaming, FTX)
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