#2d10

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roll 1d20 (roll of a 20-sided die)

roll 2d10 (roll of two 10-sided dice)

roll 3d12 (roll of three 12-sided dice)

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Exposition:

Why 2d10?

Well, this Homestuck RPG is a reimagining of an earlier and rather incomplete Homestuck RPG that was the creation of the fan community at large. This was an idea that was largely agreed upon as appropriate for the kind of craziness inherent with Homestuck,

The 1.1 rulebook of "the Homestuck RPG" says this on the subject:

The decision to go with Core Mechanic rolls of 2d10 rather then the much-loved 1d20 was not made lightly.  It was a design goal to capture the outrageous quirks of the MS Paint Adventures style, which include all manner of tragic pratfalls and outrageous Brutal Affronts on the part of the protagonists as well as similarly upped antes by the opposition.  Unfortunately, adding another layer of critical randomity on top of the already fickle d20 was decided to be a dangerously unbalancing act.

So they recognized that it was an experimental decision and frankly, it isn't a dangerous or wild unbalancing act. It's just an uncommon idea that most people are unfamiliar with. The real challenge of executing a 2d10 system is convincing people that it is a good idea. So that brings us to the next few questions which should explain why it works and with what style.

How do you do Dice Checks (DCs)?

Simple. Roll the 2d10 and add them together. If their number is equal to or lower than your skill level, you win the DC! If it is higher, then you fail,

Wait what happened to critical wins and critical failures?

Also fairly simple. The 1.1 rules came up with a method of determining crit wins and fails, but I slightly modified it to make it easier to determine.

When making Combat rolls, rolling doubles on your d10s offers you a potential for a Brutal Affront... or perhaps just a Grave Blunder.  You ma-

Brutal Affront = Crit Win Grave Blunder = Crit Lose

If you read the 1.1 rules it has this nicely complicated method of determining which of the two you got. My modification is simple. If you rolled doubles and under or at your skill level, you crit won and you crit lost if your doubles rolled over your skill level. See, it's not that hard at all.

What will the stats look like?

Well first of all with a 2d10 system all rolls will trend to the average, (being a roll of 11) like a bell curve. So stats have to reflect this reality and recognize that a +1 to any roll is a huge factor in determining results. Therefor we need to work with small numbers.

A level 0 player (yes all players start here) will have a net value of 0 (or -1 I still need to figure this bit out) in their attributes. Attributes will have a 1:1 relationship with the skill's corresponding attribute modifier. Not counting the attribute modifier each of the three sets of skills will have a net value of -1 for 0 level players. To cap off the balancing act of this system most of the skills (if not all when I'm finished calculating the stats) will have a standard of +10 at character creation because of the nature of DCs.

So players with no positive or negative modifiers in a skill will have a natural 10 giving them just shy of a 50% chance to win a DC.

However the actual process of determining attribute and skill bonuses will have a touch of randomnity, just to keep things interesting.

Wait...

What the heck, I started writing this to explain what the stats are, but totally failed to state them. Here they are:

Player Level (PL)  Max Health Points (HP) = Gel Viscosity * (PL + 1) Armor Class (AC) = Armor Mentality + Armor Evasiveness Evasion Chance (EV) = Acrobatics + Armor Weight To Hit Chance (HC) = Weaponizer + Weapon Accuracy Attack Damage (AD) = Mangrit + Weapon Damage Initiative (SP) = Vim + Other Modifiers