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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vulcan_idic" data-source="post: 4244319" data-attributes="member: 19615">But you didn't point this out - at least not in a logical, clear method of communication. You quoted statistics based on the assumption of a highly skilled/experienced individual, and, while provideing no comparable statistics of a nonskilled/experienced individual in the same circumstances, quoted statistics of a theoretically comparably skilled character in the game.  Then you stated that experience has zero proven bearing on the issue.  The fact that you specifically pointed out that the quoted statistics assume a highly skilled/experienced person, in the absence of any support to the contrary calls into question your claim that such skill/experience has no bearing.  If your intent was merely to point out that probabilities were off, why was it necesary to point out your were quoting statistics based on an assumption that you claim, "have zero proven bearing on one's ability to survive a free fall from hundreds of feet in the air" why not just leave out the assuption.  To put it another way, what you said there was akin to saying, "The odds of my shopping for a sword like that in the real world, assuming it rained last weekend, are something on the level of greater than 1 in 1,000,000. In D&D, assuming a Level 10 character, those odds are more like 1 in 3. [Note: In real life, weather patterns the previous weekend have zero proven bearing on one's tendency to go shopping for a sword.]"  If the weather patterns are irrelevant to your argument about buying a sword as your last state ment claims (and I would wager most of us would agree that it is) why do you take the time that you are assuming it in the first statement thus causing the reader to expect that there *is* some as-yet unseen correlation between the facts only to later refute the expectation that you yourself set up?  This confuses the reader and clouds your message.</blockquote>

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