Earthdawn 4e Dice
Since Earthdawn came out with their Fourth Edition, as far as I can find every Earthdawn game on RPoL* has converted. So, I have two questions:
One - can we get an updated system option for the Dice Roller? Fourth is, alas, once again slightly different from anything else. It runs as follows:
Step Number Action Dice Step Number Action Dice
1 D4-2 21 D20+2D8
2 D4-1 22 D20+D10+D8
3 D4 23 D20+2D10
4 D6 24 D20+D12+D10
5 D8 25 D20+2D12
6 D10 26 D20+D12+2D6
7 D12 27 D20+D12+D8+D6
8 2D6 28 D20+D12+2D8
9 D8+D6 29 D20+D12+D10+D8
10 2D8 30 2D20+2D6
11 D10+D8 31 2D20+D8+D6
12 2D10 32 2D20+2D8
13 D12+D10 33 2D20+D10+D8
14 2D12 34 2D20+2D10
15 D12+2D6 35 2D20+D12+D10
16 D12+D8+D6 36 2D20+2D12
17 D12+2D8 37 2D20+D12+2D6
18 D12+D10+D8 38 2D20+D12+D8+D6
19 D20+2D6 39 2D20+D12+2D8
20 D20+D8+D6 40 2D20+D12+D10+D8
If it helps any, it is identical to 3rd Edition up through Step 18, but after 19 it's all different. Third Edition had gotten rid of d20s entirely.
Secondly, is it possible to make it so you can (but don't have to) roll two Steps at once? So you could, for instance, put maybe, "8,4" in the "Step Number Field" (as it is for Earthdawn), and have it roll Step 8 + Step 4? But just saying "8" would still work to just roll Step 8 alone?
There's a thing you do in Earthdawn where you can spend Karma to improve a roll, and you're supposed to roll that at the same time. Every game I've been in here has given up on that because, well, it's not that it's so hard to, say, roll your Karma first, but it's fiddly and people forget and it's just easier to let people roll it after, but that means you can decide whether or not to use it after you know if you need it or not and that has a significant mechanical impact in the game. It'd be cool if we could actually roll them together, if that's easy enough to do.
And as always, thank you!
*- yes, all four of them! I'm not saying it's a huge part of RPoL, just that it's important to those of us who are in it.