From: Malcolm Cohen (malcolm@num-alg-grp.co.uk)
Date: Tue 08 Feb 1994 - 15:48:38 EET
Malcolm's 2d worth:
> Joerg replying to Dave Cake
> >> Speak Own has a base of 50% [58]; Custom Own has a base of 50% [64].
>
> > Why not just leave it at 30%? I mean, why not? (that compatibility
> > thing again). I have (after not liking it at first) warmed to the 30% base
> > for speak own and would rather not have another needless skill change
>
> Because most players I have met like to apply a skill directly, and do
> not like to add two skills before rolling, I suspect. BTW, if you allow
IMO, 2 native speakers of the same language and dialect talking to each other
The RQ3 rule implies that 40% of the time an average person does not understand
have a 95% chance of successful communication. This is modelled reasonably well
by both having 50% skills (and adding them) with the 96-00 auto-failure.
what they are hearing; this is just wrong - (radio) news bulletins etc would be
useless if this were so.
OTOH, 30% seems like a reasonable approximation for non-native speakers.
> So I'd say if you don't like the 50%, give a 20% penalty for local
> dialects, and you're back to RQ3 compatibility.
Agreed, I think that having a substantially different local dialect is quite
similar to not having it to native speaker level.
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...........................Malcolm Cohen, NAG Ltd., Oxford, U.K.
(malcolm@nag.co.uk)
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