Question for you all.
First, I LOVE this book. I’m thinking of borrowing some of the items for other games. Like the clock idea… brilliant.
The only question I have here comes from the dice rolling. The book says:
The most common result is 4/5: partial success. is means that your character will tend to succeed, but at a cost—you’ll rarely get away clean. Blades in the Dark is a game about underdog characters who are in over their heads.
Just doing my basic odds, a 4 or 5 should come through 1/3 of the time. You succeed 1/2 the time. I didn’t see anything about modifiers, looks like you add more dice to your roll which wouldn’t necessarily raise the odds. Am I missing something like a boost that would normally improve these dice rolls? I’m not that far through the book yet, so if that’s later, I apologize.