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Old January 21st, 2012, 04:10 PM
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Default Re: Conquest of Elysium 3 dev log

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Originally Posted by ioticus View Post
I thought I read damage rolls are not open ended. But during one battle report a unit took 32 points of damage from a bite (it was from a bird like creature called ZiZ) that has a damage range of 1-21. The unit even blocked the attack, reducing damage by 4. He was immobile and damage was increased by 1 according to the report. How do you account for that?
If anyone told you that damage was not open-ended, chances are they were under the influence of something mind altering, but I don't remember anyone from the beta test team actually saying that. I remember saying that damage was open-ended, which is roughly the only way you can count for a 1d8 damage crossbow doing 32 points of damage on a manticore.

Note that targets that get hit also get an open ended armor roll (no idea of what the die is), since otherwise it would be impossible for a Troll King to do 1 point of damage on unarmored targets (1d3 + 25 damage)
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