Re: (TFT) doing it wrong

[Rick Smith <rick_ww@lightspeed.ca>]

that would be cool!  

Rick
On 2015-02-17, at 4:37 PM, $mike cremer wrote:

> 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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