Re: PoA/Percentages and Outcomes just don't match up
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 6:17 am
Yeah I think anyone who has played a miniatures tabletop game understands luck (both good & bad) more intuitively than computer gamers.w_michael wrote:I used to grumble to myself after a series of bad rolls in miniatures wargaming, so I bought half a dozen precision backgammon dice. It didn't appreciably change my luck, but I stopped grumbling.Cheimison wrote:D&D players are always complaining about low rolls, especially on stats. Damn entitled casuals!
When I was a kid I played WHFB... I will always remember losing a Bretonnian Grail Knight to one skeleton archer firing at long range after moving (a 1 in 333 chance event IIRC).