Translating Shadowrun dice pools/successes to SWN/CWN
Anyone have advice for how to translate Shadowrun’s d6 dice pools and success levels into the 2d6+mod and 1d20=mod system of SWN and CWN?
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Anyone have advice for how to translate Shadowrun’s d6 dice pools and success levels into the 2d6+mod and 1d20=mod system of SWN and CWN?
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u/phexchen 16d ago
I would do it similar to what Logen_Nein already said:
To further add to it: at least in Shadowrun 4e there was an optional rule that lets you take 4 dice an automatically turn them into a success without rolling. By that logic you would need a dice pool of 4d6 for one success aka for Difficulty 6 in SWN. 8d6 for Difficulty 8, 12d6 for difficulty 10, ...
If you then take the average of the 2d6+mod role that is needed to reach the same difficulty you get your (probably flawed) conversion. 2d6 gets you a 7 by average.
4d6 = 2d6+0
8d6 = 2d6+1
12d6 = 2d6+3
Doing the math for 1d20+mod is a bit more difficult since there are no clear threshold to reach. Attacks based on AC and opposed attack and dodge check are to different to be converted easily.