Thread:Vae Victis/@comment-6042046-20130430224020/@comment-6042046-20130519040652

The second is the same as the first? Just read differently? It should be read as "This is the probability of Rare Success % based on 100% Fortunate results." The readers should understand that the RS value depends solely on the achievement of fortunate results.

RS is a 2-step process: 1) Pass the fortunate/unfortunate check - 1A) You rolled an Unfortunate result. This is failure and it sucks to be you. Stop and try again at step #1. 1B) You rolled a Fortunate result. This is success and it's great! Now move onto step #2 to see what sort of fortune you've obtained. 2) Pass the regular success/Rare success check - 2A) You rolled a regular success result. Nice. :) 2B) You rolled a Rare success result. Awesome! :D

...Is this better or worse than the theft analogy utilizing porcelain kittens?

The F/U %'s are quite important in themselves. For instance, the RS % of a challenge is 75%. Nifty, right? You're likely to get 3 RS results out of every 4 times you succeed at a luck challenge. BUT this particular challenge's Fortunate % is 5% DUUUNDUNDUN! You will probably fail hundreds of times before you score a handful of fortunate results, never mind that most of those fortunate results will be RS ones.

Vice versa, it can also be awful. Let's say a different luck challenge possesses a 90% Fortunate chance. Yay, you will succeed most of the time! OH NOES, the RS % is a measly 1%. You will probably need to spend hundreds of actions to attain a handful of Rare results despite the fact that you succeed most of the time.

You should explain everything to the readers in the best way you see fit. If people don't understand the connection, then the numbers won't help them much.

They might misinterpret luck-based RS 30% and F 20% to mean this: "The challenge is split as 30% Rare Success, 20% Fortunate/Regular Success and 50% Unfortunate." No, they should read it like this: "The challenge is split as 20% Fortunate and 80% Unfortunate. If and when a Fortunate result is achieved, 30% of those will be Rare."

Would tiny icons help?
 * Kitten.png Whoo, you stole 10 porcelain kitties!