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Comment by Semaphor

> The D1000

> This is also insane. Really, the justification for doing this is for very large probability tables.

That’s indeed crazy. As every Hackmaster [0] player knows, you need a D10,000 to roll for critical hit locations [1]. The severity range goes up to 24 btw. And there is a table for hacking, crunching and puncturing weapons each. Followed by 4 pages of skeletons, muscle structures and organs of a human to explain where all those locations are, exactly.

But what am I saying, maybe you rolled a fumble or mishap, in that case you do indeed need your d1,000 [2].

FWIW, this is a D&D 1st ed based game that has multiple possibilities of dying during character creation ;)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HackMaster

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/FIljuga.png

[2]: https://i.imgur.com/13xVopQ.png

parent Semaphor 4 years ago

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