Read the first two articles about this series, and I can't quite figure out how the RPG system works. Is it dice based? Something else? Perhaps we don't know yet, but thought I'd ask in case I just missed it somehow. Thanks!

It is dice based, and from what I understood it works a bit like how the Star Wars RPGs work; you have two sets of dice, in this game all d6, and matching numbers from the two sets cancel each other out:

"Whenever you attempt a task that is difficult or poses a serious danger, you roll a number of six-sided dice to determine if it succeeds or fails. These dice are split between two colors – one representing “positive” dice that help you, and the other representing “negative” dice that hinder you. Positive and negative dice can be added by your positive and negative features, your equipment, any existing injuries, the difficulty of the task, the environment, or other contributing factors.

Once the pool of dice for the task has been collected, you roll them and compare their values. Each negative die result that matches a positive die result removes both dice from the final pool. If any positive dice remain in the pool with a result equal to or lower than the characteristic associated with the task, you successfully complete the task. However, even success may hold its consequences. Any negative dice left in the pool cause you to suffer stress, pushing you closer to your limits, as we’ll explore in more detail below."

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=5206

Yes, and from what I've gathered (submitted the question through proper channels) no proprietary dice. Just d6s you might want to have 2 different colors to differentiate between positive and negative.

They made the right call by not making the dice system proprietary.

They made the right call by not making the dice system proprietary.

This a thousand times over.

I'm curious to see how the 6 sided dice system will handle the various actions as well as the anticipation of the "might get eaten alive on this roll" rolls.

But as far as I'm concerned I prefered the starwars dice polls to the basic probability of "anything under a 12 on this D-20 means I become dragon poop", because that's a bit plain to me and I like a little whipped cream on my dessert.

Wich places me right up there on the -out of shape perk.