Re: (TFT) doing it wrong

["$mike cremer" <mike@thecremers.com>]

I have no excuse: the same text is in all four editions of Wizard.

(As an aside, I ended up acquiring each edition of Melee and Wizard, which
I then rendered to plain text. It is interesting to compare the versions
side-by-side to see what changes were made. At some point I will get some
time to write up a detailed analysis and post it.)

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:57 AM, gem6868 <gem6868@verizon.net> wrote:

> seriously...any chance that it was amended later?  I don't have my copies
> handy but that sounds correct.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: gem6868
> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 10:51 PM
> To: tft@brainiac.com
> Subject: Re: (TFT) doing it wrong
>
>
> 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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