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<blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 6155265" data-attributes="member: 13107">Not sure I'm understanding the question now.Linearity generally means that results are additive.&nbsp; Working within a framework of hit points, taking five HP of damage, then taking another five HP of damage, the total loss is the sum (10 HP).&nbsp; (Having addition gives you multiplication, since a * x is x + x ... x, repeating 'x' 'a' times.)Still working withing a hit point framework, taking away linearity would mean that subsequent damage would have an effect unequal to initial damage.&nbsp; Having the effect increase as additional damage is taken seems most natural, which would have the second 5 HP of generated damage (my damage roll) having some additional loss.Some systems provide this as a net effect because of additional consequences of damage, for example, if damage increases the chance to hit, say, by reducing dexterity or dodge, or perhaps by increasing damage by ablating armor.Not sure if we would want to use &quot;non-deterministic&quot; in this context, but I'm thinking the concept is not really what you you want.&nbsp; Would that mean random (which is usually the case, with lots of possible distributions, more or less different than simple uniform distributions), or as used by a computer scientist (as applied to a non-deterministic finite state automata)?Thx!TomB</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tomBitonti, post: 6155265, member: 13107"] Not sure I'm understanding the question now. Linearity generally means that results are additive. Working within a framework of hit points, taking five HP of damage, then taking another five HP of damage, the total loss is the sum (10 HP). (Having addition gives you multiplication, since a * x is x + x ... x, repeating 'x' 'a' times.) Still working withing a hit point framework, taking away linearity would mean that subsequent damage would have an effect unequal to initial damage. Having the effect increase as additional damage is taken seems most natural, which would have the second 5 HP of generated damage (my damage roll) having some additional loss. Some systems provide this as a net effect because of additional consequences of damage, for example, if damage increases the chance to hit, say, by reducing dexterity or dodge, or perhaps by increasing damage by ablating armor. Not sure if we would want to use "non-deterministic" in this context, but I'm thinking the concept is not really what you you want. Would that mean random (which is usually the case, with lots of possible distributions, more or less different than simple uniform distributions), or as used by a computer scientist (as applied to a non-deterministic finite state automata)? Thx! TomB [/QUOTE]

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