The Judge might, instead, decide to give the roll Disadvantage in circumstances where external factors work against the action. A Rifle, for example gives Advantage during shooting tasks, good roads give Advantage to characters marching along them, and having an NPC owe the character a favor will give Advantage when trying to get them to do you a favor in return. The Judge may decide to give the roll Advantage due to some situational benefit in the character’s favor. The number of Successes is then cross-referenced with the Challenge Level on the Task Resolution Table to get a result.īB=Bolloxed B=Blunder F=Failure PS=Partial Suc. The player then rolls the appropriate number of dice: each ‘5’ or ‘6’ is a Success each ‘2’, ‘3’ or ‘4’ is discarded, and each ‘1’ is a Misfortune. The final decision is the Judge’s to make.īefore the roll, the Judge will set a Challenge Level, based upon the difficulty of the task at hand.
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Firing a musket, for example, is clearly based on Dexterity, but repairing it would likely require Saavy, and using it in melee might rely on either Dexterity (if using a bayonet) or Thews (if bashing an enemy’s skull in with the buttstock). TASK RESOLUTIONīasic Task Resolution in Donjons & Dragoons is accomplished by the player rolling a number of Dice equal to whatever Attribute the Judge thinks is appropriate to the action being taken. Using the conflict resolution from that game as a base, I added a simple ‘drama generator,’ in the form of Misfortunes, and now have a set of core rules that I believe could have realistically come from the mind of a literature professor whose hobby is miniature wargaming. So I spent some time doing that and ended up with a simple set of rules that will most likely serve as the mass combat system in book 2 of the set: Captains & Campaigns.
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Instead of imagining what a game based of a wargame would look like, I really needed to design a wargame and then let the core rules for the RPG evolve from that naturally. Shortly after writing a post on design decisions for the basic rules engine of the game, it occurred to me that I was putting the cart before the horse.