Hi I just had a question about how actions are resolved. In the players guide (if I have read it right) you roll a number of dice and then equal to the attribute and then you add the modifier. What I understand from this is that you had all the D20's up together that were rolled and then you add the modifier if any are to be used. It then talks about how combat would work. What then confuses me is that in the combat section the highest roll is taken and that is used along with the modifier.
So which is correct out of the following;
All actions are resolved by taking a number of dice rolled and then using the results of the highest roll
Most actions are resolved by adding all dice up and adding modifiers, apart from attacks which use only the highest roll
Thank you in advance
Thank you for getting back to me!
You always take the highest of the multiple dice rolls for any roll and add your modifiers. Therefore, a high Attribute gives you a much higher chance of getting a high roll up to 20. Skill and any situational modifiers are how you can get rolls in excess of 20. The exception to this is if you have the Demigod Background Trait (which we will use more heavily in the Age of Antiquity sourcebook). With that, your natural 20s explode, so if you roll a 20 on your Attribute roll, you roll it again and add 20 to the result.