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<blockquote data-quote="Ridley's Cohort" data-source="post: 5923792" data-attributes="member: 545">Yup.Those who are concerned about a possible loss of a proper SoD roll are ignoring the fact that if I make my save I get to walk up to her and attempt to plant my dagger exactly between her eyes.&nbsp; The D&amp;D Medusa in play in every edition has never closely resembled the Medusa of myth, because in most editions there are zero consequences for those who happen to have good dice (so far).&nbsp; In fact, IME some PCs in higher level play would outright taunt these things, because they are only failing on a 1 or 2.&nbsp; Is that the awesome &quot;authentic&quot; Medusa we are trying to honor?An obnoxious tactical penalty is a better result for a standard beast IMO, because at least it make some sense to simply say &quot;I catch a glimpse of her asps and I put my gaze towards her feet just in time.&nbsp; Now I am not fighting my best I cannot look properly at my enemy.&quot;SoD was originally a quick and dirty mechanic for deciding when a &quot;unit&quot; was sufficiently disrupted to be ineffective for the remainder of our mass battle on hand.&nbsp; Whether the unit was truly dead was not something gamers at the table usually thought so much about.&nbsp; Do you track your losses over the course of a game of Risk?&nbsp; We care who wins the battle, right?&nbsp; If we keep in mind that units were originally 20 or 100 men, then handling these things sort of how many other mass battle system handle Morale Checks is a &quot;good enough&quot; mechanic.&nbsp; It became ackward when 1 unit = 1 man.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ridley's Cohort, post: 5923792, member: 545"] Yup. Those who are concerned about a possible loss of a proper SoD roll are ignoring the fact that if I make my save I get to walk up to her and attempt to plant my dagger exactly between her eyes. The D&D Medusa in play in every edition has never closely resembled the Medusa of myth, because in most editions there are zero consequences for those who happen to have good dice (so far). In fact, IME some PCs in higher level play would outright taunt these things, because they are only failing on a 1 or 2. Is that the awesome "authentic" Medusa we are trying to honor? An obnoxious tactical penalty is a better result for a standard beast IMO, because at least it make some sense to simply say "I catch a glimpse of her asps and I put my gaze towards her feet just in time. Now I am not fighting my best I cannot look properly at my enemy." SoD was originally a quick and dirty mechanic for deciding when a "unit" was sufficiently disrupted to be ineffective for the remainder of our mass battle on hand. Whether the unit was truly dead was not something gamers at the table usually thought so much about. Do you track your losses over the course of a game of Risk? We care who wins the battle, right? If we keep in mind that units were originally 20 or 100 men, then handling these things sort of how many other mass battle system handle Morale Checks is a "good enough" mechanic. It became ackward when 1 unit = 1 man. [/QUOTE]

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