Posted by Death_Claw the Personal witness, Experienced in using Random Number Generators. on December 8, 2000 at 13:39:33:
In Reply to: I've wondered about this now and then as well posted by Nepenthe(IMM) on December 8, 2000 at 13:07:07:
> My best guess is you should invest in some lottery ticket action. I haven't spent intense time screwing around with the guts of random number generator so I can't swear on my life that it's not dodgy, but it seems okay to me. As far as I know, all spells are straight up percentile checks for the purposes of whether you will cast the spell or lose concentration. They aren't, otherwise logically you could cast 'detect invis' 100 times and it would only fail 25 times out of that 100, which is not the case. Similarly if you had assassinate at 75%, you should be able to kill anyone with it 75% of the time, but that's not quite how it works. My guess is that it is tweaked for better game balance, not to screw the players. Not to mention why would there be a luck stat, or for that matter, Magical resistances, saving throws etc.. It's better off the way it is imho.