Post by Ziphion on Jul 24, 2014 5:23:58 GMT -8
But it's not the last card.
Ok, so here's how it worked before this change to criticals, when they were still one big check mark for each color. When flipping triple red (when your score in a given ability was 5, the highest possible), you flipped three cards. If the first or second card was a critical, it didn't count as a critical; it counted as a single success. You then pick the best result from those three cards; if it's that single success, so be it, but if another card was a triple check, your result was triple check. If the last card was a critical success or failure, it counted as a critical success or failure, regardless. The motivation for this was to maintain the probability of getting a critical no matter what your ability score was, and also to avoid doing any math; you just look down at the cards and use the card with the most checks on it.
Now, the only change is that there are four check marks on the critical success for red. (And likewise four strikes on blue critical failure.) So now when you flip triple red, you still pick the card with the biggest number of checks, unless the last card is a critical, exactly like before. The only difference is, the number of checks on the red critical card is four instead of one. So it's now possible to have a simple four-check success.
Ok, so here's how it worked before this change to criticals, when they were still one big check mark for each color. When flipping triple red (when your score in a given ability was 5, the highest possible), you flipped three cards. If the first or second card was a critical, it didn't count as a critical; it counted as a single success. You then pick the best result from those three cards; if it's that single success, so be it, but if another card was a triple check, your result was triple check. If the last card was a critical success or failure, it counted as a critical success or failure, regardless. The motivation for this was to maintain the probability of getting a critical no matter what your ability score was, and also to avoid doing any math; you just look down at the cards and use the card with the most checks on it.
Now, the only change is that there are four check marks on the critical success for red. (And likewise four strikes on blue critical failure.) So now when you flip triple red, you still pick the card with the biggest number of checks, unless the last card is a critical, exactly like before. The only difference is, the number of checks on the red critical card is four instead of one. So it's now possible to have a simple four-check success.
