[UA] Adeptvatars

[Epoch]

On Thu, 24 May 2001 holycrow at mindspring.com wrote:

> >One counter argument is that a PC adeptvatar has to divide a given >amount of points between two Soul skills (of which he could only max >at 70%, meaning an average between the two skills of 35%) thus >weakening him in one or both, rather than having one or the other at >a better percentage.  Which doesn't mean it should be more common for >GMCs, but they really don't have that sort of limitation.
> 
> "The hunter who pursues two hares will lose both."  You want scads of funky powers, you're going to have to work for it with lots of experience: That's just part of the game.
> 
> For the real minmax afficionado, you can put your Avatar skill at 51%
> so that it's vaguely reliable, and leave your Adept skill at
> 19%.  That's pretty sad, but since it's your obsession skill it's
> effectively much higher.  (I think there's some kind of mathematical law
> of diminishing returns on obsession as the skill rises... I knew this
> once... It works out that the obsession bonus is zero at 99% skill, but
> it's effectively something like +20% at 19% skill.  Any smart math types
> wanna correct me?)

A 19% obsession skill succeeds on numbers 01-19, 20, 21, 30, 31, 40, 41,
50, 51, 60, 61, 70, 71, 80, 81, 90, and 91.  That's a total of a 35%
chance of success, or a +16% chance from what it would be if you were not
obsessed.

The obsession bonus actually increases your chances of success most at the
middle of the range (the 50% range), and is less at both ends (frex, if
you have a 01 obsession skill, you only get a 1% bonus (a 10 can be
flipped).  However, if the degree of success matters, then it's not
accurate to say that there's less of a bonus at high skill levels for
obsessives -- as skill increases, your ability to flip to a higher, but
still succesful, number also increases.

Gun obsessives get all kinds of thrilled by this.

Mike

--
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	- Jeff Grant


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