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Old October 10th, 2007
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Originally Posted by Trifletraxor View Post
I think the Mongoose idea of 10% criticals was a good one. 20% and 5% add extra calculations/looking at tables.
Pah! 20% is a fifth, 5% is a 20th, both really easy to calculate on the fly.

In any case, you only need to calculate them if you roll roughly the right amount. So, if I have 60% Pedantry and I roll 40 then clearly I haven't specialled or criticalled. If I roll 05 or 15 then I need to work it out because they are close to special or critical.

It does irritate me when people say RQ was maths-heavy and hard to work out. Maybe when you add all the bonuses and penalties together it takes a bit of working out, but that's what calculators are for.
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