Critical success / failure on more than 3 dice

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Originally Posted by zot

.... Since I was already asking, I thought I'd suggest using three of the dice you roll for autos / criticals, since ITL doesn't cover it anyway. I couldn't resist throwing my $0.02 in. Of course I hadn't thought about rolling fewer dice. Glad you contributed that.

Two heads are better than one, and team work mostly helps, at least until a contradictory maxim kicks in and too many cooks spoil the broth, haha.

I added the following note so it would be explicit that there are options instead of using colored dice, such as differently sized dice or merely segregating the dice so you could read them separately. I didn't want this method to imply anyone HAD to buy more dice, even though six-sided dice are easy to come by.

NOTE: Of course, different sized dice could be used instead of differently colored ones. Also, you don't really need colored or sized dice if you can merely be sure to segregate the dice so on a 2d roll you have two dice you can read separately among the three dice, or on a roll of 4d or more you have three dice you can read separately among the four or more dice.