Post #1281801
2026-04-06 04:34 UTC
@sillyCoelophysis @sinbad
You should only roll dice when the outcome is uncertain and the success or failure is interesting in some way. If there are no consequences to failure then it doesn’t matter what the outcome of the roll is.
So, I think, no- a miss can’t just be a miss. There should have been something riding on that throw! Maybe you were trying to knock them down before they escaped. Maybe they were threatening you. Whatever those stakes were, *that* is what should happen.
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@toerror@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-06 06:52
@doty @sillyCoelophysis @sinbad Yeah - the 5% chance of catastrophic faliure when performing a mundane task would in reality give the denizens of a fantasy world total action freeze :-)