Posted by Zix on February 7, 2000 at 07:17:02:
In Reply to: Warrior skills posted by Not so amused warrior on February 7, 2000 at 04:49:51:
> Just out of interest why do skills fail or miss even after you have mastered them to 100%. Spells dont fail when you eventually get them to 100%, so why should skills. Perhaps a couple skills could be looked into. Some might say that you can save vs spells well perhaps a simple tweak and you could save vs skills but make it dependant on size str etc. But I would like to know why skills fail so often even at 100% they should work all the time. I'm not sure what you mean by the claim "spells don't fail at 100%." If you mean the mage doesn't accidently say the wrong words and botch up the spell, then you are correct. If you mean that the spell always does what it's supposed to, then you are wrong. Both skills and spells inherently involve TWO people, the attacker and the attacked. Sleep/halt/hold spells can all be saved vs, with spellbane simple damage spells can be saved against, etc. If you get, say, whirl or pincer to 100%, you ALWAYS execute that move correctly: there just isn't any gaurantee that the victim won't dodge or parry or somesuch.