I'm not ignoring your post; I've just been cogitating over it for a few days. The thing I'm struggling with is whether doubling the mods is really the way to go or not. The original mods are for the 2d6 (or possibly 2d10) dice mechanics, each of which gives a bell curve for results. Also, with 2d6 and a target of 9, the base chance of success is approx 28% while a target number of 12 on 1d20 is 45%. Maybe shift the target number up to 15 (30% base success) and then tweak the mods a bit. Something like Hard -2, Touch -4, Demanding -6, Formidable -8, and Heroic -10?

I'm not saying I'm right, but I do think such large mods as -12 and -16 just make players feel "why bother?" it's the psychology of the numbers as much as anything.

Absolutely! 

Really itching to get my hardcopy as well. Summer is approaching and I fancy sitting in the backyard, sipping a scotch, smoking a cigar and perusing my hardcopy of Dicey Tales 

Just catching up on posts after coming back from vacation and, having read the stats for the Duneshark, I can only say "RUN AWAY!" 

Great feedback Steve. Like you I played the heck out of DT back in the day; I actually converted some of the FGU Daredevils adventures, and I also converted my group's PCs from our early DD games. The characters worked out great using BoL and DT (although I do use a few house rules of my own to give the characters a little more depth).

I own EW and PPP but I haven't given them as much time as I should because I tend to just go back to BoL and tweak it with some Dogs of W*A*R, DT and Barbarians of the Aftermath. I'll be sure to give EW and PPP a deeper read soon.