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In the APCR thread Sparifucil3 and I went slightly off topic when I started musing about good and bad dice rolls which led to me advising players to roll them bones as little as possible and not get dice happy. Jim stated that he liked to roll a lot in the right circumstances as he might get lucky. I wanted to continue as some good points and stories were being offered but it was correctly pointed out that the thread was going off topic so here we are.
Do you take all the shots available to you or only those with a reasonable chance of success?
For a while I was in the take every shot possible camp but that evolved into just take the shots that have a decent chance of success or necessary in the situation camp.. There are a couple reasons for that evolution.
I mainly played against Fish and we both liked to play fast, hence the Actionburk. A dice roll that has little chance of a decent outcome just slows the game down. For the realists just consider it as not squandering ammo.
SAN. I could leave it at that. Why roll when your opponent's SAN is one of the few numbers that will result in a result? I've watched my 10-2 led HMG heavy kill stack disintegrate after a " successful " dice roll. Jim related a similar story and I'm sure it's happened to everyone who has a few scenarios under their belt.
Finally it was self preservation. As I've related before, in the SOF series replay I stated that Fish was the ideal opponent, never losing his temper due to an unfavorable dice roll. Well that was the 80`s and by the 90's things had occasionally changed, perhaps due to too many low probability lucky shots. We were playing one night and after a lucky shot by me and an unlucky dice roll by him Fish grabbed his dice tower and hurled it against the wall. It missed the barn wood paneling and hit the masonry chimney riser, shattering upon impact. I immediately clutched my face and yelled " my eye! I've been injured! " BS of course but the reason the " eye protection required " sticker can be seen on his replacement dice tower. After that I thought I should back off on the 1 +2's for a while and maybe concentrate on other paths to victory.
I'm interested to hear how others view this, their approach to rolling them bones and any stories they'd like to relate. I love a good story. Thanks.
Do you take all the shots available to you or only those with a reasonable chance of success?
For a while I was in the take every shot possible camp but that evolved into just take the shots that have a decent chance of success or necessary in the situation camp.. There are a couple reasons for that evolution.
I mainly played against Fish and we both liked to play fast, hence the Actionburk. A dice roll that has little chance of a decent outcome just slows the game down. For the realists just consider it as not squandering ammo.
SAN. I could leave it at that. Why roll when your opponent's SAN is one of the few numbers that will result in a result? I've watched my 10-2 led HMG heavy kill stack disintegrate after a " successful " dice roll. Jim related a similar story and I'm sure it's happened to everyone who has a few scenarios under their belt.
Finally it was self preservation. As I've related before, in the SOF series replay I stated that Fish was the ideal opponent, never losing his temper due to an unfavorable dice roll. Well that was the 80`s and by the 90's things had occasionally changed, perhaps due to too many low probability lucky shots. We were playing one night and after a lucky shot by me and an unlucky dice roll by him Fish grabbed his dice tower and hurled it against the wall. It missed the barn wood paneling and hit the masonry chimney riser, shattering upon impact. I immediately clutched my face and yelled " my eye! I've been injured! " BS of course but the reason the " eye protection required " sticker can be seen on his replacement dice tower. After that I thought I should back off on the 1 +2's for a while and maybe concentrate on other paths to victory.
I'm interested to hear how others view this, their approach to rolling them bones and any stories they'd like to relate. I love a good story. Thanks.