Talk:Sword World RPG

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There seems to be a few recent edits from someone pulling information from the fan translation of the game, instead of official sources. While the article did need to be proofread and updated, I'm not sure adding unofficial terms and linking to unofficial translations is really the way to go about it. 2603:7081:4F01:26F3:E8DB:5C67:D222:3A60 (talk) 12:55, 22 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

> The game uses only two 6-sided dice, as other polyhedral dice aren't common in Japan.

The D20 system was invented in the year 2000 with DnD 3e. Sword World RPG is from 1989. I am pretty sure, that the lack of polyhedral dice are not the reason for two D6.

2D6 provide 36 combinations of which 16 are 6-8 and 24/36 are 5-9 and also the reason games like Catan decided to use 2D6 as it increases the strategy a lot and reducing the luck factor. 2/3 of the time you throw 5-9 and almost 1/2 of the time, you throw 6, 7 or 8. That makes improving your character feel more rewarding and makes the overall feel of the game more like an RPG Japanese have been used to by Video Games. 121.112.213.65 (talk) 15:21, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The d20 system did not invent or even popularize the 20-sided die. Setting aside the fact that using 20-sided dice for gambling games has existed for millenia, modern d20s were invented in 1950 for wargaming, and were popularized by the original Dungeons and Dragons starting in 1974. The main authors of Sword World were most famous for their series of D&D replays, where they regularly used d20s and bemoaned how their scarcity in Japan made it difficult to find enough for all their players. They are also on record saying that the use of 2d6 for Sword World was motivated by it being the most common dice size and amount included in common board games such as Monopoly or Catan (which are popular in Japan), so anyone could play the game without any special equipment. 50.92.28.226 (talk) 00:26, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Including this in the article would still require a reliable source. If they are on record as having said this, for example, we can cite that record, but it has to be verifiable. Grayfell (talk) 00:51, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]