Re: [HOE] Math question

[Jason Young <jason_d_young@yahoo.com>]

I don't whether or not they were aware of the bust frequencies before
releasing the game, but they are definitely aware of them now. Certain
GM's and authors are known for building PC's with odd-numbered dice in
their most important characteristics. Take a look at some of those
archetypes.

And you can (sort of) gloss this -- as you are learning a skill, you pass
through stages where you are expanding your abilities and other stages
where you are refining them. During expansions, you are more likely to
make catastrophic errors. During refinement periods, you are less likely
to make catastrophic errors. This is modelled by the odd-even progression
of raising an aptitude.

It's not a great hand-wave, but it's my hand-wave.


--- Johnny Burlin <Johnny.Burlin@home.se> wrote:
> I would bet against that they analyzed the whole thing from a
> mathematical
> point of view (that it is easier to go bust with an odd skill aptitude
> than
> the
> preceeding even one kind of indicates that (you would expect that you
> screw
> up less the better you get at doing things), this is somewhat
> counterintuitive but
> pretty obvious when you analyze it) but that doesn't matter much, it
> works,
> better than many other systems, and it is simple. What more could one
> ask
> for?
> 
> /Johnny


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