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Originally Posted by SDLeary
It is going to be limited in the above situation. But then, someone foolishly went after a Dragon without proper prep (proper armor, magical protection, etc). If the character did go in prepared, and had
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Even with all that, there's simply cases where the dice hate you, or when the dragon or his allies dispels your magic. Because RQ/BRP involves a big, essentially linear die roll, there's a little too much opportunity for bad luck to pretty much come out of nowhere just because of the swings in potential result; consider just the fact that with 96+ being an automatic failure on defenses, and 01s always being crits, that one in about 2000 rolls is going to crit you no matter what your skill or your opponents. That's obviously a very extreme case, but its also a best-case scenario for a defender, and over the course of a campaign where any significant combat occurs, I'd put bets the net set of attacks and defenses approaches that number.
That said, with the category reduction, that probably is the better choice in all but the marginal cases anyway (or in cases where categories are irrelevant like some attack magic).