thread: 2008-03-03 : The Owe List
On 2008-03-09, John Harper wrote:
Jonathan,
Rolling Smaller Dice = Pulling Weight simply because that's how it works in Tanith Lee and Jack Vance. The stories are about the consistent underdogs who scrape by and/or manage crazy reversals of fortune. In those tales, the coolest or most engaging characters aren't necessarily the ones that recur.
In other words, I think it's a stylistic choice.