I don’t normally make new year’s resolutions. But when Prismatic Wasteland issued their challenge to bloggers to create a new resolution mechanic, how could I say no? We love a good resolution system around here, but I hope you’ll accept this instead.
The Any Two System – When the GM gives you the difficulty number for a check, add any two numbers from your phone number (including area code) together. If you can add two numbers and beat the difficulty number, you succeed. If you can’t, you don’t. Zeroes count as “tens”, and you can only use a number once per encounter (however your game defines an encounter). Once you have used all the numbers, if the encounter is still going on, drop the lowest and highest number and continue.
I envision this as particularly useful for playing games while waiting in line at conventions, or sitting in the audience waiting for a panel to start, maybe on the bus; any time you want to play something but it’s inconvenient to roll dice.
If you have a resolution of your own or want to check out what other folks have come up with, head over to Prismatic Wasteland and check them out.
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