How do we deal with hit chance attacks?

[Mr.Cinos15]

As the title says, how do we deal with attacks that gameplay wise only have a chance of hitting?

Lets say that there's a death spell in an rpg that only has a 10% chance of successfully killing a target, do we treat the percentage as a limitation of the spell? Or do we treat the percentage as game mechanics?

This came to mind as I read this thread: https://vsbattles.com/vsbattles/4084791 and someone said that the hit percentage of one of the characters moves was simply game mechanics.

Just a simple question.

 

[Ionliosite]

Yeah, game mechanics, not relevant to us.

 

[Mr.Cinos15]

Thank you for the quick answer.

 

[Antoniofer]

There's powers that are based in probabilities, Lucemon for example has a power that has 50% chances to severy injure someone and another 50% chances of one shotting; although, it has a well definied ability, rpgs in general are purely mechanics unless they have an explaination.

 

[Mr.Cinos15]

So basically, we treat percentages as game mechanics unless they are thoroughly explained in lore?

 

[Antoniofer]

The percentage may means that the game takes into account that the target may resist the effects of poisoning, paralysis, death, etc; like infusing poison in a wrong place, or that the attack stroke a vital and caused instant death. Or perhaps, the power itself is a subset of Probability Manipulation, and may induce an extremely unlikely result.

 

[Mr.Cinos15]

Hmm then what do you have in mind?

 

[Antoniofer]

If the power do not have an explaination, you may simply assume that a power that have 10% chances of poisoning works normally, if its touch you it will poison you, the percentage may consider like not infusing enough poison, not being enough potent and/or perhaps the immune system of the target rejected the poison.

If eeverything that happens had 100% or 0% chances of working then powers like Probability Manipulation would be useless.

 

[Mr.Cinos15]

Understood, thanks a lot you two.

 

[Antvasima]

Thank you for helping out.

 

[Mr.Cinos15]

This can be closed if you wish Ant.

 

[Antvasima]

Okay.