3rd March 2008, 7:29 PM
Yeah I talked about this before. Those are all based on Dungeons and Dragons so they use that same "D20" system. And, apparently the fun thing in that sort of RPG system is that it isn't so much about skill as gambling. In other words the idea is not that as you get stronger you hit harder so much as you gain the ability to hit the enemy at all. In this world, apparently everyone has terrible vision and can't hit someone in front of them with a giant sword.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)