Re: [s-d] King for a Day prop

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 9, 2005, at 2.35 PM, Jake Eakle wrote:

> A number of dice is not a number of research points. If there were a 
> clause
> saying "If you get more than 100 research points in this way [something
> happens]" then that could be changed, but the die roll only determines 
> how
> many you get, it is not an actual number of points. Another example 
> would be
> if something said "You get research points equal to the number of 
> tildex you
> own divided by 100" you couldn't change the 100. You can only change
> numbers, not functions.

But 3 RPs is a number of RPs. So if you get (3d10) RPs, minus 3 RPs, 
the three should be changeable.

BTW, when I was a player in Nomicron some time ago they had a nice way 
of doing this sort of thing - certain numbers throughout the ruleset 
were marked as "tweakable", and this sort of random numeric 
modification was only permitted on "tweakable" quantities. For example, 
our rules would say that "upon joining the game, every new player gets 
1 (tweakable) point." and then that 1 could be altered by various other 
means.

--
Wonko

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you have on your hands is a non-working cat.
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