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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 4152005" data-attributes="member: 29398">Let's give FarmerJoe a rusty shortsword of punyness for consistency, and carry on.Lord Death, by virtue of his outstanding skill at arms, is capable of 4 attacks per round.  FarmerJoe is capable of one.  Lord Death is going to critical more than 4 x more often than FarmerJoe (his confirms are easier), he's going to hit *way* more than 4 x as often as Joe, and he's going to give out more damage per hit than Joe.  These are all due to skill.Fumbles are not.  They are a random interrupt, caused by pushing one's abilities too far (the general assumption is you're always fighting to the limit of what you can do), or by the fog of war, or by any of a host of other circumstances...and yes, Lord Death will, every now and then, do something he doesn't want to.  The only difference between Lord Death fumbling and Farmer Joe fumbling is that Lord Death is doing it with a +5 Vorpal, and if it's all the same I'd rather he fumble it somewhere else, thanks. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  But yes, with greater reward (4 attacks per round and all the other benefits of having loads of skill) come slightly greater risks (you're still going to fumble just as proportionally often as anyone else).Lanefan</blockquote>

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