Why do many people prefer roll-high to roll-under?

Theory of Games

Storied Gamist
There is nothing a roll under system does that can"t be done with a d100 roll-high TN 101, or a d20 roll-high TN 21.

For various reasons, no one has done an RPG using such a system that has become widely popular.

But BRP, RQ, CoC, DoD, they can all be flipped to roll-high with minimal effort.
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Aldarc

Legend
There is nothing a roll under system does that can"t be done with a d100 roll-high TN 101, or a d20 roll-high TN 21.

For various reasons, no one has done an RPG using such a system that has become widely popular.

But BRP, RQ, CoC, DoD, they can all be flipped to roll-high with minimal effort.
Do you think that there are reasons why that is or may be the case?
 


Thomas Shey

Legend
True. One could make that argument.

But… one could also flip the math and re-do the chart.

The chart would look a bit different, but in the end it’d just be a roll high d100 system with the degrees of success marked out for you on a chart.

That's what I meant about it being a different beast. Once you're using a tabular read it doesn't really matter which way you construct it; the chart is doing the work either way. It tends to make the benefits of roll-low disappear anyway.
 

Thomas Shey

Legend
Do you think that there are reasons why that is or may be the case?

I do. There's an intuitive quality to roll-low percentile systems that just isn't present with roll high. The handling for most people is different too.

(This is less true with roll-high single dice or total systems).
 


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