[UA] OT Math

[Nick Wedig]

>So there's a small payoff at either end, but a fat, creamy middle?  Egad, it's the return of the Bell Curve from old green box D&D!

A rough approximation of the return is that your skill of x% gives you x% + (x% * (100 - x)).  So for a skill like 50%, you normally fail on anything higher than 50, but half the time, you get saved by the flip-flop.  For 25%, you're only saved by the flip-flop.  But then, toward the higher end, the section of failure becomes smaller, such that you receive less benefit (eg, you succeed 80% of the 20% that you fail, giving you an effective skill of 96%.

Mr. teapot
not a math whiz

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