KillianHawkeye
2009-09-20, 07:33 PM
So, I was looking through my old Vampire: the Masquerade books for the first time in years and idly considering running the game for my current gaming group. Now, I bought a bunch of these books in high school because they were a great read, but I've never actually played the game before.
Here's what I don't get: I understand the basic concept of splitting your dice pool to gain multiple actions in one turn, but a few things seem unclear to me.
A) How does it work when you have different dice totals for the actions you want to take. Let's say I want to roll Dex + Dodge and then Dex + Brawl, and my Brawl and my Dodge have different scores. Is my limit on total dice for the round the higher of the two? Or what?
B) What about when one of the actions I want to take doesn't require any dice? Like if I want to run towards my opponent and then roll Dex + Melee to hit him with a lead pipe, for example. Does running actually reduce my dice pool? By how much? Am I supposed to arbitrarily declare how many dice the running action will cost me? I don't get it.
Also, just to clarify, things like damage and soak rolls are completely independant and unaffected by how many actions you take, right?
Here's what I don't get: I understand the basic concept of splitting your dice pool to gain multiple actions in one turn, but a few things seem unclear to me.
A) How does it work when you have different dice totals for the actions you want to take. Let's say I want to roll Dex + Dodge and then Dex + Brawl, and my Brawl and my Dodge have different scores. Is my limit on total dice for the round the higher of the two? Or what?
B) What about when one of the actions I want to take doesn't require any dice? Like if I want to run towards my opponent and then roll Dex + Melee to hit him with a lead pipe, for example. Does running actually reduce my dice pool? By how much? Am I supposed to arbitrarily declare how many dice the running action will cost me? I don't get it.
Also, just to clarify, things like damage and soak rolls are completely independant and unaffected by how many actions you take, right?