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; Ones don't subtract : In most oWoD games I'm familiar with, every 1 you roll subtracts a success from your results and you can botch if you have a 1 left after canceling out all your successes. In Exalted rolling a 1 is no different than rolling any other number that isn't a success. Unless, of course, you roll no successes at all, then a 1 indicates a botch. | ; Ones don't subtract : In most oWoD games I'm familiar with, every 1 you roll subtracts a success from your results and you can botch if you have a 1 left after canceling out all your successes. In Exalted rolling a 1 is no different than rolling any other number that isn't a success. Unless, of course, you roll no successes at all, then a 1 indicates a botch. | ||
| β | ; Soak isn't rolled. : In Exalted, a | + | ; Soak isn't rolled. : In Exalted, a characters bashing or lethal soak are subtracted from the damage dice, no rolling is involved. This streamlines combat a bit as well as makes the characters in Exalted a bit tougher than their counterparts in oWoD games. |
| β | ; Difficulty is the number of successes you have to roll to succeed. : Your target number is seven (unless you're playing a Sidereal with a TN reducing charm) for ''every'' roll. Meaning that you get a success if you roll a 7, 8, or 9 and two successes if you roll a 10 (and, of course, there | + | ; Difficulty is the number of successes you have to roll to succeed. : Your target number is seven (unless you're playing a Sidereal with a TN reducing charm) for ''every'' roll. Meaning that you get a success if you roll a 7, 8, or 9 and two successes if you roll a 10 (and, of course, there's an exception - 10s don't double when rolling damage or for any roll extras make). Difficulty is addressed solely by increasing the number of successes you need to perform the action. Typical difficulties are set forth in the Character Creation section of the core book. If you need to penalize a player for some condition and raising the action's difficulty doesn't feel right for the circumstance, you can subtract dice from their dice pool. Since two dice will average one success, a -2 dice penalty is mechanically the same as raising the difficulty by one. On average. |
More to come as people point them out to me. | More to come as people point them out to me. | ||
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