Re: [HOE] Sykers and healing [Hopler]

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

At 02:37 PM 8/1/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Im a little confused here.I dont under stand where you got the 22% chance of
>healing a maimed woound and a 0.5% chance of bustin.(mind Im not that good at
>math)
>The base target number for a maimed wound is 11 right? (dont have my book
right
>here) and the modifier for a maimed wound is -5 so you need a 16 to
suceed. Now
>you have 5d12, each one has a 1 in 12 chance to roll an ace (8.3% per die.
now
>if I remember my laws of probability correctly they chance per dice is not
>addative based on how many dice you have...but I am not that good at this
math
>stuff so I might be wrong). After you roll the ace, you then need to roll
a 4 or
>higher.
>That doesnt seem that easy to me.

I used  a base of 13, +5 for wound penalties (I don't have my book in front
of me either.)

Which - to use your figures, would be about 4.15% per die.  And, each die
is not strictly additive, as there is a "dampening" effect, in general you
can add 'em all up, and shave off a few points to get a rough estimate.
Two 50/50 shots, of which only one need to be good, is a 75% chance of
success.

Or - you could just use the calculation program that someone wrote up and I
downloaded.  :-)




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