> Suppose you have these three characters:
>
> Joe1 Close Combat 17 (17 AP)
> Joe2 Close Combat 2w (22 AP)
> Joe3 Close Combat 17w2 (57 AP)
>
> If Joe1 squares off against Joe3 without any further modifiers, he
is most
> likely to roll a Success vs. Joe3's Critical Success.
>
> However, if Joe2 squares off against Joe3, he has a target
number of only
> 2, and will most likely keep rolling Failures vs. Criticals. He has
only a
> 10% chance of a Success, even though he has one level of Mastery
already.
> This means that a character with NO masteries has a better chance
against a
> guy with 2 Masteries than somebody with 1 Mastery has against the
same
> opponent.
This has been discussed and it was suggested that, as in the real world, inrease in skill is not linear with effort invested or, in other words, Joe2 has learned just enough to get himself into trouble. Yes, there is a decided non-linearity here but fixing it causes too much complexity in the system.
> Now for something even trickier.
> Suppose Alfred has Sword & Shield Fighting 5w3 (that's 65 AP) and
fights
> against Bob who has Sword & Shield w3 (60 AP). Does Bob have a
target number
> of 0, a target number of 1, or what?
There is no such thing as a naked mastery ;-) the progression is 20 followed by 1w and 20w followed by 1w2 . 60AP implies a skill of 20w2.
>
> Or how about this one:
> Al has Sword & Shield 5w3 (65 AP)
> Greg has Sword & Shield w2 (40 AP)
>
> You have to subtract w2 from both sides. So Al will get the benefit
of a BUMP
> on every roll in the contest. And what will Greg have? Which target
number
> does he roll against? Is it zero?
as above
> CU
> Norbert
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