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From: ews@hammer.UUCP (Ed Sznyter)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Re: Teleportation, die rolls
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Date: Mon, 19-Dec-83 14:41:17 EST
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	So it is always better to be attacked by a 1d5/1d5 monster than a
	2d5 monster (not that you get to make that choice)

Well, most of the time.  However, imagine that you have 2 hit points left,
and the monster has a 20% chance to hit you.  If the monster does 2d5, he
will kill you 20% of the time.  If the monster does 1d5/1d5, he will kill
you (.16 x 3/5) + (.16 x 3/5) + .04 = 23% of the time, since he gets two
tries, and either one of those tries has a good chance of doing you in.

	Ed Sznyter
	tektronix!tekecs!ews