Core System - Alternative Dice - d12
Because of the wide distribution of the d20 dice, this is a dice better suited when larger dice pools are involved. However the core system is more closely matched to smaller dice pools, of usually between 3 and 6 dice. In addition to this, the baseline target number of 16 for rolls with few dice does come a little lower than necessary. So this is an alternative approach to playing the core system of Empyrean using d12 dice as a baseline instead of d20, but still using the d20 dice for bonus rolls. Because of the bigger impact of the escalation of power with the change of success and critical success numbers, some additional rules have been changed. To achieve this conversion consider the following: A roll of 1 still remains a botch result, and subtracts one success. The Aspects are now modified as follows: Level 1: 2 Dice, Success: 8, Critical: 12 Level 2: 2 Dice, Success: 7, Critical: 12 Level 3: 3 Dice, Success: 7, Critical: 12 Level 4: 3 Dice, Success: 6, Critical: 11 Lev...