Diceless Scion

[thuellai]

I love talking about houserule ideas, so, how would you guys structure diceless games of Scion? My current idea is that each character would get a certain number of free successes based on their Legend and their Attributes... something like 4x Legend success for situations involving their Primary Attributes [so a Primary Physical Legend 3 Scion would get 12 free successes per scene for situations where they would have had to roll a physical attribute], 3x for Secondary, 2x for Tertiary, though they could never spend more successes than a given Attribute + Skill [So you couldn't blow all 9 successes on Charisma + Presence if your combined Charisma + Presence is only 6]. Legend Points would act to add new successes, and you could spend a Legend Point to break the cap [So in that case, you could spend a Legend Point and stunt out a truly epic use of Charisma + Presence and get to use all 9 successes]. Likewise stunts would add successes, though since they're adding straight successes rather than dice, they might have to be given out more rarely [or not - Scion is supposed to be Epic Adventure after all]. The only concern I can see is that it makes Legend a very important stat, but that's already true and there's a reason Legend is the most expensive and difficult stat to raise. I figure the Demigod upgrade and other things like it would give you smaller multipliers that could be added into the original, allowing a dual-Primary demigod to get a pretty big multiplier in whatever thing he chose to specialize in.

Any other ideas or refinements on this system?

[dorkknight23]

Immediate thought to make Scion almost dice-less:
Figure out 40% (rounded down) of any dice pools you can come up with. Assume the character could, on average, deal with anything of that difficulty or lower. In crucial situations where that might be silly (like, say, combat,) have the GM secretly roll 2d10 (preferably different colors.) One adds successes and one subtracts them, so that brings a random element into it and minimizes the die rolls and the number of dice involved.

That might be silly.