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Daggerheart is apparently a 2d12 system (comicbook.com)

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just came across this comic book article about daggerheart at gen con. I find it interesting that daggerheart is moving away from d20s.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not just that, the d12 has a very useful amount of divisors (2, 3, 4 & 6), which gives a lot of options for different tables and it means it can technically replace a d2, d3, d4 or d6 ...for a higher number of divisors you'd need d24 or d30, which isn't very common/practical.

It could theoretically also be used as a d10 with 2 extra numbers that can be used for critics/fumbles (that's what The One Ring does).

It nicely matches the handles of a clock, so you could use it to represent direction/angle, as well as time.

It conveniently matches the months of the year, which could be used when you need a random date, or could also be used as a way to get a weather estimate, with winter months representing colder weather, summer hotter, Autumn rainy, etc.

A lot of occult / religion stuff matches to the number 12, so you could use it to determine, for example, astrological signs/houses (it might be useful when determining a random personality/mood for an NPC), Chinese zodiac (when you need an animal), Greek/Olympian gods, the main Hindu gods (Adityas), etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Using a d12 as a d10 with extra bits is absolutely genius for me. I’m working on a dice-pool based TTRPG system that is based on d10, but I may incorporate this fun tidbit to get some extra juice out of dice rolls.