Answer a Trivia Question to Win a Therakiel's Sword!

ambassadorkael · February 2018

Hey Champions! As part of today's super long maintenance, we've been doing some giveaways on all platforms. We already did one on Facebook, and now that the forums are back, it's your turn!

In the Champions pen and paper game, what kind of dice do you use?

To win, send an email to "community@crypticstudios.com" with the subject line "ChampsForums." We'll pick one winner to receive a Therakiel's Sword!

ealford1985 · February 2018

Fingers crossed

shadowolf505 · February 2018

I mean, I don't know the answer so wishing anyone the best of luck!

bulgarex · February 2018

I know the answer, but the sword would probably be more appreciated by someone else.

ealford1985 · February 2018

@bulgarex you have always provided detailed quality replies on CO lore for any and everyone.

I can’t think of anyone more qualified and deserving.

pantagruel01 · February 2018

There's always a chance he has one... (in any case, this is not super obscure, so there are a lot of people who know the right answer or can find it).

ealford1985 · February 2018

Completely irrelevant^

aesica · February 2018

The same kind used in every other pen and paper game: the weighted kind, obviously.

themightyzenith · February 2018

ealford1985 said:
@bulgarex you have always provided detailed quality replies on CO lore for any and everyone.

I can’t think of anyone more qualified and deserving.

Totally, he's been helping folks for years giving detailed and insightful information about lore... he's also a real gent

ealford1985 · February 2018

Wonder when we will know....keep checking my email, it’s starting to become unhealthy

flyingfinn · February 2018

E-mail? Is that somekind of ancient communication system?

bulgarex · February 2018

Thank you very much for your kind words, folks. They're much appreciated.

But to be honest, I'm not really playing CO these days. My very limited gaming time is devoted to the PnP version of Champions, which is my preferred venue. I'd rather a CO prize go to someone who'll directly benefit from it.

guyhumual · February 2018

PnP role playing is always better then video games IMO, so it sounds like you got your priorities straight.

jonsills · February 2018

Sadly, when the forums came back up, the computer was otherwise occupied - my wife was catching up with some work on her Data Analysis degree from WGU. How short was/is the deadline?

(Rolling all those dice helped improve my math skills, even as late as college.)

ealford1985 · February 2018

They have winners

bulgarex · February 2018

I would have expected the contest to be short. It isn't a hard question, and no few CO players have also played Champs PnP. So the answers probably came in thick and fast.

avalon · February 2018

Whatever happened to this?

ealford1985 · February 2018

People who won, won.

bulgarex · February 2018

Then I suppose there's no harm in posting the answer.

The only kind of dice you ever needed to play Champions, are plain ol' six-sided cubes. But in some circumstances you can, if you wish, roll a lot of 'em.

jonsills · February 2018

bulgarex said:
Then I suppose there's no harm in posting the answer.
The only kind of dice you ever needed to play Champions, are plain ol' six-sided cubes. But in some circumstances you can, if you wish, roll a lot of 'em.

In 3rd Ed, it was fairly common to roll a lot of them - don't know if later editions streamlined it any, but 10- to 15-die EBs were not uncommon in our games, especially when taking certain power limitations made the dice a lot cheaper. Say, a 15-die STUN-Only EB, 0 Range, Cone AoE (that was one character's sonic blast that stuck in my head. Took forever to resolve the combats with that guy). Sure, you could just roll five of them three times, but that essentially makes it take three times as long to resolve. We got pretty good at rolling entire handsful of dice...

bulgarex · February 2018

I've known quite a few players who enjoyed rattling a whole dice cup loaded with 'em.

jonsills said:
Sure, you could just roll five of them three times, but that essentially makes it take three times as long to resolve.

Or like us, you could just roll five dice and multiply the result by 3. I think the most dice I ever rolled at once was 10. But I'm not sure how many younger players can multiply in their heads today, in the era of calculators and cell-'phone aps.

shadowolf505 · February 2018

I use my head.

pantagruel01 · February 2018

I've played in a game where average attacks were upwards of 20d and 30+ happened, but it was a hassle.

bulgarex · February 2018

I favor the classic Champions GM trick of pre-rolling a bunch of random dice results before a game and listing them, then just crossing a number off the list whenever it comes up. That speeds up play significantly.

chaosdrgnz43 · February 2018

If the prize was a cool looking axe, I would probably have joined this trivia.

jonsills · February 2018

bulgarex said:
I've known quite a few players who enjoyed rattling a whole dice cup loaded with 'em.

jonsills said:
Sure, you could just roll five of them three times, but that essentially makes it take three times as long to resolve.
Or like us, you could just roll five dice and multiply the result by 3. I think the most dice I ever rolled at once was 10. But I'm not sure how many younger players can multiply in their heads today, in the era of calculators and cell-'phone aps.

But when what you're after are BODY points, you really need to roll those results out - come on, sixes!

bulgarex · February 2018

The thing is, the more dice you roll, the more the result tends to average out (the bell-curve effect). Fewer dice means higher odds they'll come up sixes.

(I can hear all the MMO-exclusive readers thinking, "What the actual hell are they talking about?!")

markhawkman · February 2018

bulgarex said:
The thing is, the more dice you roll, the more the result tends to average out (the bell-curve effect). Fewer dice means higher odds they'll come up sixes.

(I can hear all the MMO-exclusive readers thinking, "What the actual hell are they talking about?!")

If you've played Age of Mythology, then you know exactly what this means. Though in AoM no effect actually wants you to get all the dice the same. In the unmodified base game it was possible for a combat action to cause you to roll 13 dice. Then you counted the number of sixes(or sixes and fives if you used the official variant) to determine who won.

flyingfinn · February 2018

So who won?
Or is there somekind of page where to check stuff like that?

guyhumual · February 2018

I guess the answer is no

ff130 · February 2018

yes

blazeingdragoon · May 2018

soo they haven't ever thought of re adding therakial's sword back into his lair. or haven't even bothered to give us any form of way to get this dang thing unless we grovel to the devs or try and wait for one of these "dev events" to happen.
i find this very annoying due to the fact that there are other games i would like to play on the side so i don't burn out over playing this game but for some reason if i really want this dam thing i have to spend every dam waking hour to keep and eye out for one of these dang therakial sword dev events?? add it back into the dam game allready!!!

ealford1985 · May 2018

They just gave 10 people the sword in zone!!! Where were you?!?

blazeingdragoon · May 2018

well i can't remember but if i was to say after finding this dam thread i either decided to log off champions online for the rest of the day or decided not to log in. which i find is the most irritating crap i just learned.

chaosdrgnz43 · May 2018

I'd rather have the HW blade. MA is too mainstream.

avianos · May 2018

Coming right up "Principessa", do you want it for now or want it packed for home?

atlassarnosian · June 2018

So was there ever winners announced or what? I still never heard any updates back from this

ealford1985 · June 2018

They announced it to the winners only

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