Ranking Attack Roll Margin of Success

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by Orochi-art

They do the same thing but it comes from two different sources. When attacker has a upper hand and when defender has an upper hand. I only wanted to extend the definition in case someone has doubts does it work in both ways.

Example 1: Aggressor attacks for 4 MoS. Defender uses DB 2 shield and has Mos 2. Difference is +2 in favor of attacker. But shield has DB 2. Shield is struck

Example 2: Aggressor attacks for 2 MoS. Defender uses DB 2 shield and has Mos 4. Difference is +2 in favor of defender. With shield having DB 2 he needs to put it in a way to intercept the blow. He wasn't able to deflect it. Shield is struck

Er. So on the one hand, I can't see any difference between those two. Nobody 'has the upper hand', one character or the other had a better number and got no benefit from it.

On the other more significant hand, you appear to have doubled the effectiveness of shields, since you add DB to your block and then still block the attack if you fail the contest by DB or less. Maybe appropriate since you've doubled the scale of the basic defense values.