From: Alex Ferguson (abf@interzone.ucc.ie)
Date: Wed 20 Aug 1997 - 17:43:18 EEST
Guy Hoyle says, of the Creatures Book chart for hp/location:
> You're supposed to be able to multiply the creature's total hit
> points by .40, .33, .25, or -16 to get the appropriate hit points for
> a specific location. However, the results I get from using this
> formula don't exactly correspond to the chart, and I can't figure out
> how they got the results they did.
Looks to me like they used, for the range "m -- n", column d:
ceiling (n * d)
(The function "ceiling" means "round up all fractions".)
So for example, HP 64, column 0.40 falls into the 64--66 range, and
66*0.4 = 26.4, which gets rounded up to 27. Personally I'd say the
table was "wrong" in such cases (this guy is getting a free hitpoint,
but are _you_ going to argue with him about it?), but if you want to
stick to it, I think that's how they arrived at it.
Hope this helps,
Alex.
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