Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pax" data-source="post: 859673" data-attributes="member: 6875">Re: Re: Re: Why Does Concealment Afford the Same Miss Chance...Actually, they aren't saying the BAB goes down.They ARE saying, a 20% miss chnce only AFFECTS 20% of those swigns which are hits in the first place.Take an AC 20 target, with concealment good for a 20% miss chance.Take two attackers; one has +4 to hit, the other has +9 to hit.The +4 fellow -- call him Bob -- hits on a roll of 16-20, or, a 25% net chance to hit.  Of those hits, one in five -- 20% -- will be converted to misses.  So 4 of 5 "hits" will actually "connect".To get those 5 "hits", Bob needs to swing 20 times.Thus, Bob "connects" four times out of twenty swings, or, 20% of the time.  20% is 80% of 25%.On the other hand, the +9 attacker -- call him Fred -- has to roll 11+; he hits half the time.  Given the same twnety swings, we woudl expect Fred to hit ... ten times, right?  Well, 20% of those hits, are converted to misses.In other words, Fred "connects" 8 times, out of twenty swings.Twice as often as Bob, still!Bob, four connecting hits out of twenty tries.Fred, eight connecting hits out of twenty tries.8 = 4 x 2.Sans concealment, Bob gets 5 hits, while Fred gets 10 hits.10 = 5 x 2So, experience IS helping Fred hit more often than Bob; Fred is hittign twice as often as Bob -- just as he should, concealment or no concealment!</blockquote>