How to make "kick" useful?

[DoubleSkulls]

See I read that same section and get the opposite opinion, especially since it specifies what a 1 is, what a 3 is, etc. So if I roll a 1 and 3, it goes 0+1=1 squares. You take each die, round down according to kick skill rules, then sum.

The kick skill description never refers to the die (or dice) roll, just the amount scatter.

The fact you are rolling 2d6 for scatter instead of 1d6 is irrelevant to the kick skill.

The example is there just to show rounding for those who do understand what rounding down is.

[Artificial Penguin]

Here's kind of a funky one:

According to the rules, the order of kickoff resolution is:

1. place the ball
2. roll kickoff result
3. scatter ball
4. resolve kickoff result
5. bounce ball 1 square

How do you handle the order if the kickoff resolution is Bad Kick? It's really more of a semantic question, since I think 3 and 4 would be combined...forget I said anything

[Munkey]

If you were going to play it in sequence like that you could scatter the ball as normal (step 3) then roll an extra dice and move it further (step 4), in which case Wesley's version would make sense.

I think it is far easier to just roll 2d6 and halve the result for kick skill though.

[Taffsadar]

Because his kick is so accurate, the number of squares that the ball scatters on kick-off is halved, rounding any fractions down (ie, 1 = 0, 2-3 = 1, 4-5 = 2, 6 = 3).

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I agree with Ian on this one.

And I really can't see how it can be read differently. You scatter the ball X numbers of squares and halves them. And the thing inside the () is just a clarification to show how it works.