Re: (TFT) Critical Spell Failures

[John J Hyland <johnnyboytmm@juno.com>]

-- ErolB1@aol.com wrote:-----------------------------------
And above all, *please* don't try to tell me that it's "more realistic" to 
have Bad Shit happen ten or a hundred or a thousand times more often than would 
happen in real life. A breakage rate of 1 per 216 attacks for weapons of 
ordinary decent quality is no more realistic than the infamous exploding cars of 
Hollywood chase scenes. 
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Erol,

Don't get me wrong, I have no idea what a realistic break frequency is, 1 in 216 seems kinda high, one in a million kinda low, I'll assume the real number is somewhere in between.  But for gaming purposes, we enjoy the occasional 1/216 fumble, a one/a million fumble rate rounds to zero, so should simply be ignored (your suggestion IIRC), you apparently enjoy that convention.  Like you said, milage may vary.

Of course, now I want to get a bunch of swords, swing them at a chainmail wearing tree, and see how long they last, 216 swings, or a million.  Until then we'll just have to live with not knowing.

John


 

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