Gunner Rey
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Low rolls are good, so in your example your target was 39--or less--as you fail on a tie (result:0). Under the hood there are other modifiers to your roll like a Respect bonus, Affection bonus/malus, poor hygiene penalty etc.Is there any way to see Verbose Skill Checks?... As in: Roll + Skill Modifier - Skill Target = Check Value
I'm asking because I've just started playing for the first time and I'm finding the dice roll feedback so counter-intuitive that I'm struggling to figure out what I should be doing? It often seems like red = good, green = bad, and high skill + high roll seems to create disasters more often than miracles?
For example the game will report something like:
(Dice: 57, Result: -17)
Which suggests that my target was 74, but it seems like the skill didn't even factor in? That's a Charm example, my Charm is 24, so shouldn't it have been:
(Dice: 57, Result: +7)? (i.e. 57+24 = 81)
And then there's the fact that I'm playing on Normal difficulty (not sandbox), but with the supposedly easier 5D20 dice rolls... Only I'm occasionally getting rolls in the 1-5 range, which shouldn't even be possible?!?
I'm on my 4th restart and I don't think I've survived longer than a week yet... I just want to try and understand what's happening under-the-hood so I can make better gameplay decisions...
(EDIT: Also is there a healer in the town somewhere? I have a Tendstim but I can't figure out how to use it, so the only way I've found to heal so far is just to end the day 3 or 4 times?)
5d20 is not necessarily easier, just more consistent. Keep in mind that in addition to unseen bonuses/maluses, one of those numbers on the d20 might be zero. It could be a 0-19 die, not a 1-20.
The tendstim button is on the far bottom right box, fifth from the right. You'll be needing more in short order, you might as well buy some first thing at Roo's General Store in Redhaven.
You can get stamina and health healed (8 and 5 respectively) in a 'private session' with Hope Laurel (at 'Divine Juices' in Watery Eyes) by choosing 'massage.' If you've decent charm you can get 3 more stamina back through 'socializing.'
Later on you can go to the baths in Crystal Hills for similar benefits with Cersei and Tori.
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