I love reading this kind of analysis of fantasy realities. When I was younger, I often did this kind of thinking myself. As I got older, I started to look more closely at the purpose of such mental e… (View Post)

The problem with Slow Poison is that if the caster is the one who gets poisoned, the poison will often tick and interrupt the spell before it casts. Even though it takes only 2 segments to cast, the … (View Post)

That's a kind of confirmation bias. It only seems that way because you remember the times you desperately needed to roll a critical and didn't with a more pronounced and vivid memory than the times y… (View Post)

Another way to think of the math on this is that by expanding the critical hit chance from 1 in 20 to 2 in 20, you are going to get a critical hit 100% more often, i.e. twice as many critical hits. (View Post)

Hmm, I don't know. I also frequent the BG Reddit, and I see posts from a lot of new BG players over there. Here at Beamdog, I think we're mostly the "old guard". Newer players seem to frequ… (View Post)