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MrTim · 05-09-2017, 07:41 AM

For all intents and purposes, you're rolling against a 16 if your skill is higher than 16, so it makes sense that a 17 is a failure by 1. As for critical failures, I usually treat them as failure by infinity; the only oddity that produces is the question of which infinity is bigger if both sides critically fail, but at that point I usually go with something amusingly disastrous for both sides.

05-09-2017, 07:41 AM	#10
MrTim Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Albuquerque, NM	Re: Mass Combat: Failing Strategy Roll with a bigger Margin of Success than the Winne For all intents and purposes, you're rolling against a 16 if your skill is higher than 16, so it makes sense that a 17 is a failure by 1. As for critical failures, I usually treat them as failure by infinity; the only oddity that produces is the question of which infinity is bigger if both sides critically fail, but at that point I usually go with something amusingly disastrous for both sides.