Saving Throws

[Phanboy]

Just curious where the term came from. Why is it called a Saving Throw? I guess the saving part makes sense enough, but the throw part is kind of throwing me for a loop.

 

[Mark Hope]

Because you throw the dice when you make one... y'think?

 

[Phanboy]

But why is every other instance of Generating a Random number by throwing brightly colored polyhdral shapes refered to as rolling? Whats Different? You Dont Throw up a Character, You Roll Up a character.

 

[Thaniel]

You Dont Throw up a Character

You might if you eat the sheet of paper it's written on.

 

[Fish Priest]

I don't know. It's a holdover from wargaming AFAIK, but why wargaming has it?
Possibly because after making attack rolls, the attacker gives the dice to his opponent, who "throws" them back to make the save (ie rolling them so they land next to the attacking player, so he can roll attacks for the next unit).

 

[Phanboy]

Maybe I'll trot this one to the Q&A with Gary...

 

[Odhanan]

Maybe I'll trot this one to the Q&A with Gary...

Absolutely. I think Gary is the one you want to ask that question to.

 

[Phanboy]

Done!