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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8669099" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>How random really is combat though? I mean, sure, there must be SOME random element. However, I recall years ago when I was engaged in SCA combats (not that they are exactly realistic, but I think they do engage the sorts of skillset that would realistically matter in actual melee combat) there was a guy. He was invincible. I mean, truly invincible. Nobody ever touched him. He ended up 'King of the East' simply by beating every single one of many rather talented people one after another without even basically breaking a sweat. Even the guy whom I knew who was extraordinarily fast and cunning and would pull some really surprising move couldn't touch this person. He was just so fast, so strong, and so remarkably athletic that there was a 0.0% chance you would ever win against him. I don't care if the man slipped on a banana peel, he'd still have won. What I'm saying is, I am not so sure how random these kinds of things really are! Sure, between equally (un)skilled fighters, yeah, but there's a point of disparity at which you don't need dice anymore!</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8669099, member: 82106"] How random really is combat though? I mean, sure, there must be SOME random element. However, I recall years ago when I was engaged in SCA combats (not that they are exactly realistic, but I think they do engage the sorts of skillset that would realistically matter in actual melee combat) there was a guy. He was invincible. I mean, truly invincible. Nobody ever touched him. He ended up 'King of the East' simply by beating every single one of many rather talented people one after another without even basically breaking a sweat. Even the guy whom I knew who was extraordinarily fast and cunning and would pull some really surprising move couldn't touch this person. He was just so fast, so strong, and so remarkably athletic that there was a 0.0% chance you would ever win against him. I don't care if the man slipped on a banana peel, he'd still have won. What I'm saying is, I am not so sure how random these kinds of things really are! Sure, between equally (un)skilled fighters, yeah, but there's a point of disparity at which you don't need dice anymore! [/QUOTE]

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