by Stewi
bleached_lizard wrote:
Attribute Tests
Use a standard D6 for all attribute tests.
First of all, let me just say that I like your house rules overall. I may even cherry pick some of them for our own games (though I want a bit more experience with RAW 2E before I start tweaking it.)
This one has a bit of a problem, though. Perhaps you haven't run into it yet or perhaps you don't have the Conversion Kit and therefore don't care. Karnon (one of the heroes from 1E Tomb of Ice) has a Might attribute value of 6, which means using this house rule he literally cannot fail Might checks unless the Overlord has a "Wicked Laughter" card ready. Even then, the odds of it helping the OL aren't great.
The RAW system of one grey and one black is capable of generating values between 0 and 7 on an attribute test, so perhaps a better house rule would be to roll a D8-1.
That way the 50/50 line stays at an attribute value of 3 and you're covered for all the same values that the RAW system can generate, so it's unlikely that FFG will crank out a hero that breaks the house rule.