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Flashing Steel question.
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Neville
Mon Apr 25 2011, 04:58am
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 Quote from rules (syntax corrected): "The duellist weaves a complicated pattern of steel through the air designed to make it hard for an opponent to penetrate. This adds a +3/-3 reflexive modifier to the duellist’s swordsmanship scores, but the wielder does no damage unless he gets a critical in which case normal damage is done."

Am I correct that this all boils down to: no damage unless the user rolls exactly their skill number on a d20? So even if this successfuly increases the wielder's skill and lowers his opponent's, he has only a 5% chance of inflicting any damage (1 number in 20)? Can he still inflict damage due to some problem with his opponent's attack, or is this just a flashy form of losing until your skill is 18+ with a sabre?
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Andy_Scott
Tue Apr 26 2011, 11:49am
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 That's a reasonable summation but don't overlook the defensive benefits when facing opponents with a superior skill, yours being increased by 3 whilst theirs is lessened by 3 is quite a shift.
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Neville
Fri Apr 29 2011, 02:39am
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 Indeed, as I mentioned-- but in return for that, having only a 5% chance of doing any damage at all does not make it seem that useful. Moreover, we will not know for quite some time whether an opponent is likely to have a better or worse score, so that lets out planning when to use it.
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agent.pumpkin
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 The whole new duelling thing is d20 madness

May as well play DnD.
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rachaeln1brieng
Fri Apr 29 2011, 01:01pm
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Egads...Do you want to face Davey Jones and his ship of undead...
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J.Blonde
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 we are still tweaking the dueling rules as i type BTW
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Aquazoo
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 Punkin is one of Davy Jones' undead!
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Aquazoo
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 Not tweaking them, actually, we're going to see how it all goes for ease of calculating the turn.
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Lucius Yeo
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 I think they look quite interesting and I am looking forward to see how they work.
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 I'm just an old git who likes the original rules.
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Marc Orpheus Stanhope 4    
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James St. John 4 3  
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Royston Darkwing 1 2  
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Eric Olthwaite   1  
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William Hornchurch Oglby 1 3  
Edward Ernest Etheridge   2  
Peter Plain   5  
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Lucius Yeo 1    
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