Dice Resolution 2 | Poker Dice

Forewords

Poker Dice are regular D6's with card on its face, which are: Ace of Spades, King of Diamonds, Queen of Hearts (sometimes colored blue), Jack of Clubs, Ten of Diamonds and Nine of Spades.

Although this dice mechanics uses poker dice, it don't use poker hands. This mechanics was conceived to avoid adding or subtracting numbers during the game, and to create a more visual resolution method.

Mechanics

The die is divided in three groups: Ace, Royals (King, Queen and Jack) and Numbers (Ten and Nine), being Aces better then Royals and those better then Numbers. Those groups will be combined between themselves to create levels of success and defeat.

The base roll is made with two dice, this is the average roll, and is read as following:
- Two Aces: Extreme Success;
- Ace & Royal: Complete Success;
- Two Royals: Simple Success;
- Ace & Number: Draw, in fact a success and a defeat;
- Royal & Number: Simple Defeat;
- Two Numbers: Complete Defeat;

This roll can be modified by bonus dice and penalty dice. Bonuses and penalties cancels each other, and the maximum bonus or penalty is 3.
- To roll with bonus dice, roll the two base dice plus one die for each bonus. After the roll, choose the two best dice and read the result as in the table above.
- To roll with penalty dice, roll the two base dice plus one die for each penalty. After the roll, choose the two worst dice and read the result as in the table above.

Each bonus or penalty will chance dramatically the chances against or in favor of the player, use them moderatedly.

Applying

In the character creation, the PC was created and assigned levels for their Concepts and/or Traits, ranging from 0(untrained) to 2(pro). As a matter of convention, we'll consider that level 1(trained) is the average level. This is particularly true because most of the things the PCs will do will be done in trained level, i.e., we tend to do things with the knowledge we have.

This said, the table below show the relation between level and dice:
- Level 0 (untrained): 1 penalty die;
- Level 1 (trained): neither penalty nor bonus;
- Level 2 (pro): 1 bonus die;

GM can make things easier or harder giving penalty or bonus dice.

(more to come...)