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Old January 8th, 2008
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Originally Posted by NickMiddleton View Post
Are you really suggesting that given a two rolls against two percentile targets you find it that hard to give an order of magnitude approximation?
It's not _hard_ but it does slows down things a bit.

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And, as has been said repeatedly, "highest roll wins on same success level" is mathematically equivalent to the subtraction, so the rule as written DOESN'T require even the terrifying complexities of basic two digit integer subtraction...
And as have been replied, while this is mathematically a good rule, it goes against the "roll low" tradition. It might be the best solution, but it doesn't really "feel" right.

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