I would like to throw in a suggestion, though do understand it is probably to late to add it in.
Things that go squeek in the night is another d6 ttrpg with a narrative focus. It provided some of the kit in the book by having sets of pre-rolled dice to flip to at the bottom margins of the page. Having something like that in Why We Fight would cut another hurdle to playing it.
It would be one less item to buy, scrounge, etc.
Hey Xander! Thanks for your suggestion, it’s a very interesting concept, and one I haven’t heard of before. I’m struggling a little to understand how this is implemented, could you give me an example? Is there a dedicated page for pre-rolled results? I believe Fung Shui has this for streamlining GMing, that’s the closest I’ve heard of.
Let me see if I can break it down.
I tend to be bad at explaining things so, sorry if this is rough.
The idea is this: At the bottom whitespace (or somewhere on each page of the book) you would have a small printed row of randomly pre-rolled d6s faces. (or numbers if you wanted to make it even more compact).
Now, say you need to make a 2d6 roll?
You would take the book, and flip the pages stopping on a random one. Then you would look to the bottom and reading left to right, that would be your dice result.
Bottom of page page ten could have [6], [2], [3] in a bracket at the bottom.
- 6 and 2 would be the result.
Page twenty five could have [1], [4], [1], in its small bracket
- If you landed on it? 1 and 4 is your result.. and so on.
When you need to do 3d6, you just use the full random roll printed on the page from left to right.
The group could also agree to only use the first number printed, and flip three times.. or the last number and flip three times.. or even to alternate so on to make it even more random.
It wont be /perfectly/ random.. Still with only six possible results and dozens of pages, a random stop will usualy feel like fair enough of a chance to a player.
In an age of eletronics and everything its mostly uneccisary, but its sometimes handy to have the tool right in the book.
Ah, amazing, like a flip-book of rolls! That’s quite a novel idea, thanks for sharing it. I’m not sure it’d fit within Why We Fight (since the smaller of the two books is around 80 A5 pages, a little thick for that sort of mechanic), but it’s definitely something I’ll keep in mind for smaller releases!
