Timeline for Are these two methods of handling Elven Accuracy "Double Advantage" mathematically equivalent?
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| Feb 8, 2020 at 11:35 | comment | added | FrazzleUK | RAW you cant call non-lethal ranged or spell damage so if the aim was to incapacitate and not kill the enemy and you had the choice of a nat 20 and a normal ranged hit you might choose to take the non-nat 20 hope you dont do enough damage to take the enemy down to 0hp and let one of your melee party members deal the non lethal damage | |
| Feb 8, 2020 at 11:27 | comment | added | soxroxr | While not wrong, you can always choose to fail a roll, and don't forget, a nat 20 doesn't mean "you hit really hard" it means you succeed very well at achieving what you wanted. If you want to knock them out or do low damage, you don't need to hope for a low roll, you can tell your DM that you want to do non-lethal damage, such as hitting them with the pommel, the side of your axe, you give them a disabling shot in the throat, something like this. Trying to stab someone "not too bad" is a pretty poor way to achieve that result. | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 14:23 | comment | added | Draco18s no longer trusts SE | @PeterTaylor Ah, I see. Yes, that would be a different scenario. I misunderstood. | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 13:09 | comment | added | Miniman | +1 - this could also come up if you wanted to avoid a crit, for example if you were trying to knock someone out without killing them. | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 7:36 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | @Draco18s, you've misunderstood the scenario. The unoptimised scenario is that you roll two dice, reroll the higher, and then take the higher value of the two visible dice. The closest optimisation would be to take the middle of the three, but that's not equivalent. In the extreme that the dice are D2s the desired output is to get a 1 37.5% of the time and a 2 62.5%. | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 0:16 | comment | added | Draco18s no longer trusts SE | Rolling three and wanting to fail just means that the third die is a rerolled "higher" and picking the lowest of the three is, once again, mathematically identical for the same reasons. | |
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| Aug 20, 2018 at 15:25 | history | answered | FrazzleUK | CC BY-SA 4.0 |