Re: (TFT) doing it wrong

[Rick Smith <rick_ww@lightspeed.ca>]

smiles out loud!

Warm regards, Rick.


On 2015-02-16, at 7:51 PM, gem6868 wrote:

> I'm sorry, but you will no longer be permitted to play TFT until you pass the qualification and comprehension exam.
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: $mike cremer
> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 10:40 PM
> To: tft@brainiac.com
> Subject: (TFT) doing it wrong
> 
> Have you ever had a moment when you discover suddenly that some cherished
> belief is wrong?
> 
> I only recently discovered that all these years we had been handling damage
> rolls incorrectly. Specifically, we always treated zero and negative totals
> as 1 pip.
> 
> However, I was carefully reading the (original) Wizard rules and found a
> single line which turned my world upside down:
> 
> "This same method is used to determine physical damage done other ways. For
> instance, the Magic Fist spell does 1 - 2 damage for EACH ST point expended
> by the wizard. If a wizard puts 4 ST into a Magic Fist, it does 4 times (1
> - 2) damage...that is, 4 - 8 damage. Four dice are rolled, and 8 subtracted
> from the total. If 8 or less was rolled on the four dice, no damage is done
> at all...the spell was a dud."
> 
> In our games we would treat a 1 - 2 roll of 1, 2, or 3 as 1 pip of damage.
> 
> I shudder to think of the number of combats my characters would have
> survived had we understood the rules.
> 
> $mike
> 
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