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Jun 14 |
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Can the astrology helping die decrease the chance of success? Note that the chance of the astrology die taking away a success is only 1/12, not 1/6. Even considering that the example works, assuming that the astrology die can take away no more than 1 success (this is unclear in the rules, at least to my reading). This all supposing I did not make any mistakes. |
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Aug 29 |
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Death by losing constitution Drain in D20 and PF is permanent, damage temporary: d20srd.org/srd/specialAbilities.htm#abilityScoreLoss . I don't know about PF beta. I don't see any mention of it in the question. |
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Aug 28 |
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Death by losing constitution Drain is permanent (until cured by magic), damage temporary: d20pfsrd.com/basics-ability-scores/… |
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Aug 20 |
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What kind of monster I can be? Possible duplicate, or at least related: rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/14204/… |
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Jul 25 |
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Sneaking up on sleeping giants Two die rolls every 5 feet. My first reaction is to say that it would be very cumbersome. Otherwise, pretty good ideas. |
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Jul 25 |
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Sneaking up on sleeping giants @kotekzot: Attacking a helpless foe means automatic hit for maximum damage, IIRC. |
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Jul 6 |
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Why can't clerics use sharp weapons? In I.33 (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Armouries_Ms._I.33 ) a priest teaches the use of sword and buckler, and the topics are quite advanced. So presumably at least some priests were quite competent in the noble art. |
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Jul 6 |
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Why can't a Cleric use a sling? Is the second paragraph merely Gygax's interpretation, or do you claim it true? Either way, can you provide a source? |
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Jun 21 |
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Sneaking up on sleeping giants @SevenSidedDie everyone has stealth at 1/6, but only experts may improve it. (Halflings also excel at hiding, which is not relevant.) |
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Jun 20 |
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Narrative options in an antique shop, old bookstore or library A bit more detail as to why and how they are relevant would be nice. |
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Jun 14 |
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Is a Fighter/Wizard/Thief viable in Pathfinder? The two starting sentences are argumentative and add nothing to the answer. |
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Jun 6 |
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Do Teleportation spells transfer kinetic energy? Nice interpretation. Do you have a source for it, or is it your own? |
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Jun 4 |
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How can I make BRP less variable? @DavidAllanFinch: Sorry, I don't understand what you mean when you write "this made the result need 50% which is not what you need". Do you mean that taking the median does not make all tasks easier? |
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May 25 |
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Experience and levels in Pathfinder I completely missed that, thanks. Now, let me see if the rules for much exprience an encounter is worth can also be found... |
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May 25 |
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Can the astrology helping die decrease the chance of success? @JoshuaDrake I did not learn anything new from either, but did find them less unhelpful than others. |
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May 25 |
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Running a dungeoncrawl with several game systems at once @GMNoob If the systems are fairly similar, stat it for one of them; if they are very different, stat it separately for each. Note that only AC and hp as concepts don't even exist in many game systems. |
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May 24 |
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Can the astrology helping die decrease the chance of success? If the situation is obvious, then presenting a formal proof is trivial. But consider a situation where the chance of getting enough successes is almost 1, say 1-e for some small number e. Should you still accept the astrology die? Can this happen in play? How small does e have to be in order for this to happen? |
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May 23 |
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Can the astrology helping die decrease the chance of success? The astrology helping die may take away a success, so the situation is not obvious. |
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May 23 |
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Can the astrology helping die decrease the chance of success? I know the calculation is fairly nasty - by ignoring some open-endedness I can get fairly nice estimates, but since I had to ignore the open-endedness, I achieved neither necessary nor sufficient bounds. That was all back-of-the-envelope calculations, though. |
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May 22 |
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Can the astrology helping die decrease the chance of success? @Daenyth: Give a scenario and calculate the probability of success and failure without help from astrology and with help from astrology, such that the probability of success without astrology is greater than with astrology. Alternatively, give a mathematical proof (or extensive numerical proof covering the usual cases) that in every scenario the astrology helping die actually improves one's odds. |
