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hit and run, hit-and-run Move in which a player uses one throw to hit an opposing blot and a second throw to move the hitting piece to a point occupied by a friendly piece. hitting game A game in which hitting a blot is permitted. Examples: Backgammon and Portes. [15] home. noun. The first point on a player's side. [5] noun. The starting or ...
Armor Class (or AC): The difficulty to hit a specified target, abstracted from its dodging capacity and armor. [3] [4] "This term was inherited from a naval battle game". [3]: 203 Many role-playing games that came after Dungeons & Dragons have "abandoned the notion of defining defense as armor class". [3]: 54
The One-Roll Engine (or O.R.E.) is a generic role-playing game system developed by Greg Stolze for the alternate history superhero roleplaying game Godlike. [1] The system was expanded upon in the modern-day sequel, Wild Talents, as well as the demonic supervillain game Better Angels, the Film Noir game A Dirty World, the heroic fantasy game Reign, and the free horror game Nemesis.
The concept of "controlled shooting" goes beyond simply "setting the dice" prior to shooting.It purports to limit the rotation of the dice during the roll. The theory is that if the dice are properly gripped and tossed at the correct angle they will land just before the back wall of the craps table, then gently touch the wall, greatly increasing the probability of their remaining on the same axis.
On each throw of the dice the player may: Move one man by the total pip count, resting on the intermediate point; Move two men: one by the count on one die and the second man by the count on the other. Doublets do not score double. A man may not be placed on a point occupied by an opposing man, nor rest on an intermediate point so occupied.
The Blue Devils led 16-10 before Damari Monsanto hit Wake’s first two 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions to tie the game at 16. At that point Duke had missed 11 of its past 12 shots from the ...
In turn, each player throws the dice and moves men as described above. A man may not rest or move onto a closed point i.e. one occupied by two or more opposing men; however, a single enemy man may be hit and removed from the board. [a] Men so removed, must be re-entered before any men already on the board are played.
Dice used in the d20 system. The d20 System is a derivative of the third edition Dungeons & Dragons game system. The three primary designers behind the d20 System were Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, and Skip Williams; many others contributed, most notably Richard Baker and Wizards of the Coast then-president Peter Adkison.