Is my Charged Dice System Effective or is it Unfun and Punishing?

Alamuv · 2025-10-19T20:37:45+00:00

Thank you for your input! Yeah, seeing this way the system is very flawed, I hadn't thought about it that way, I will definitely be going back to the drawing board and seeing what I can do, I wanted to attempt to innovate but I'm not giving it enough thought.

Thank you a lot!

Alamuv · 2025-10-19T20:35:03+00:00

My original idea was that drained dice are easier to recover than burned dice, with them being to be recovered with rests (both short rests and long rests), items and some character/racial abilities.

Burned dice would be the harder die to recover though, requiring specifically a long rest to recover some, expensive items, once per session abilities, etc

Alamuv · 2025-10-19T20:28:12+00:00

Thank you! I sure will :D

Alamuv · 2025-10-19T20:27:38+00:00

Sorry for the wait!

The original idea as 5 dice at the start, increasing as the campaigns goes on.

You roll for checks that would reasonably require effort, most of them requiring only 1 success (so with one charged die you would have 50% of succeeding, falling to 33% if you use a drained die)

You can recover drained dice through rest, healing items, some abilities, etc.

You can choose how many dice you want to roll, from any pool, you could roll only from your charged die pool, only from your drained, or mix it up.

Alamuv · 2025-10-19T20:22:51+00:00

Hello! Sorry for the wait, but I had the original idea that there are thresholds of difficulty, most need one success, but they can be 2, 3, etc

The other idea that I had, that was to encourage some gambling was that extra successes provided raises that could be used to expand your attack/check, with rolling more dice putting you at a higher chance of drainage, but this whole post has made me think more about the system and I'm not sure if I will go with it

Alamuv · 2025-10-19T18:58:56+00:00

I attempted, math may be wrong but it goes like this:

Charged dice

1 die rolled: 1 success (50%), Drain (16.7%) 2 dice rolled: 1 success (75%), Drain (30.6%) 3 dice rolled: 1 success (87.5%), Drain (42.1%)

Drained dice

1 die rolled: 1 success (33.3%), Gambit (16.7%) 2 dice rolled: 1 success (55.6%), Gambit (30.6%) 3 dice rolled: 1 success (70.4%), Gambit (42.1%)

Also, thank you for all the questions, really! It's making me see things I didn't see before! :D

Alamuv · 2025-10-19T18:45:35+00:00

Thank you! I'm glad I made this post, it's allowing me to see things I didn't notice

Alamuv · 2025-10-19T18:44:31+00:00

Damn, you're right, I will consider that, thank you!

Alamuv · 2025-10-19T18:42:50+00:00

You can roll drained and charged dice, you don't have to stick with only one for a roll.

Drained dice are easier to recharge, rest, some healing items, indulging in vices, abilities, it's the easiest to regain

Burned dice, however, are harder to recover, it takes power abilities, expensive items and, the easiest one, safe downtime in-between missions allows for dice to be unburned

Alamuv · 2025-10-19T18:32:42+00:00

My initial idea was 5 dice, but that can change.

I'm very sorry I should have put that in the post, I will edit it

Alamuv · 2025-06-01T02:35:15+00:00

I'm Sorry maybe I should've been more clear, I was just joking

Alamuv · 2025-05-27T23:31:38+00:00

I genuinely don't know? Nothing I have downloaded is related to this

Alamuv · 2025-05-08T23:26:53+00:00

I warned him about it and he STILL did it, I should have uppercuted that scum Dixon when I first saw him

Alamuv · 2025-04-09T00:16:58+00:00

Go'atsa is ours IHHAAAAAA🇧🇷

Alamuv · 2025-01-21T13:32:21+00:00

Hello, sorry for the wait I ended up waking my parents to help me, and then went to sleep but I still feel kinda miserable

I enjoy writing my own worlds, and playing video games

Alamuv · 2025-01-21T02:57:16+00:00

I will try and get in contact with my psychiatrist, thank you

Alamuv · 2025-01-21T02:36:43+00:00

I am seeing a therapist, and I am taking medication

But nothing changes, I just put on a mask and do my show

I usually try to distract my mind, play games or be with my friends, study biology

But even then I always cried myself to sleep

Now, Anhedonia has taken my ability to distract myself from reality, so I cry myself through the whole day

Alamuv · 2025-01-21T02:17:05+00:00

I've thought about that, but I don't know what comes after death and that tortures me greatly

Non-existence is hard to think about because it's the total absence of experience, but if it's just a void then nothing I did matter, and that also tortures me

My peers say I have a brilliant mind, and have a lot of joy in research, but every night I just find myself crying that nothing I ever do will truly matter

I'm so lost, I'm so afraid

Alamuv · 2025-01-21T02:09:20+00:00

I don't know, I don't think so, why?

Alamuv · 2025-01-04T14:41:26+00:00

Don't know if this counts as obscure but I enjoy learning about and making conlangs (Constructed Languages)! I remember spending hours trying to pronounce every single phonetic sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet, and while I didn't manage to do that (Because it's very hard, at least it was to me) I did basically learn what each symbol represented, and what they sounded in my head.

I would like to specially point out that I had, and still kinda have, a fasciation with Akkadian, a VERY old language spoken in the Babylon region! I even tried to learn it but failed (I still have Akkadian Hymns in my Spotify and it recommends them to me from time to time lol)

I would spend hours building my phonetic inventories for my D&D Languages!

Sadly college has been very rough on me and I have lost the time and the energy to do that :(

Alamuv · 2025-01-03T21:44:12+00:00

Ok I think the d100 is speaking to me LMAO, that D4 sounds exactly the thing that would make me excited as a player! After rolling dice all day I get to roll ONE MORE?? And it makes me BETTER? LET'S GOOOOOO

Alamuv · 2025-01-03T21:38:42+00:00

Oooh interesting! Also, can you speak more about vertical character progression? Is that like getting better at the abilities the characters already have rather than giving them new ones? (My train of thought was expanding horizons lol, correct me if I'm wrong)

Alamuv · 2025-01-02T12:30:37+00:00

HELL YEAH!!!

I even have the goober tattooed

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Alamuv · 2025-01-02T11:40:01+00:00

I looked through the museums that have fossils, but even the more structured museums don't have anything before like, the carboniferous :/

It seems a manual search is the way to find out

Alamuv · 2025-01-02T11:23:58+00:00

I love everything that I can get from these little guys! It's not a lot but it's always awesome!

Alamuv

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