Roll High vs Roll Low

[soltakss]

I am sure that roll-high is fine, in a roll-high system.

 

However, I only played Rolemaster once - spent a session rolling up a dwarf tank. In the next session, he was killed within 5 minutes by a critical that hit him through the visor and had the result of "dead". They say that RQ combat is deadly, but ...

[Atgxtg]

I am sure that roll-high is fine, in a roll-high system.

 

However, I only played Rolemaster once - spent a session rolling up a dwarf tank. In the next session, he was killed within 5 minutes by a critical that hit him through the visor and had the result of "dead". They say that RQ combat is deadly, but ...

 

 

That can happen in just about any "realistic" RPG In one RQ campaign, in the very first roll of the very first fight, the GM rolled a critical hit on my brand new character. The only reason why he survived was that I lucked out and rolled an "02" parry, and deflected it. But we aren't always so lucky. I recall one "Weekend of Doom" where I rolled up and lost a half dozen characters in a half dozen RPGs. All from a GM "lucky" critical hit. As it was the same GM in all the games, the other players were starting to comment, and only half jokingly, that the GM was after my characters. 

[p_clapham]

I will give Fire and Sword another look.

Ray Turney's Fire and Sword, available from this fine site (ie. BRP central) is a system which has done just that: d20 in stead of percentages and high-rolling. It's a good system with a lot of very interesting design notes (which are also available here and well worth a look).