Hi Linsy.
It's actually fairly streight forward.
First compare your combat skill to your enemy's (your enemy's skill will be
in the text). that will tell you what colum of the combat results table to
look at.
So for example if your cs is 10, and your enemy's is 5, you'll be looking in
the 5/6 column, whereas if your enemy's Cs was 12 and yours was 10, you'd be
looking in the -1/-2 column.
Then, roll your ten sided dice, using 10 for 0. this will tell you which
column of the table to look at.
In the column, read which row corresponds to the number you rolled (which
also happens to be the number of rows down the column). This will tell you
how much damage your opponent and you suffer with your opponent's damage
first, so if it says 7/2, your opponent takes 7 points of damage, you take
two.
Stir vigorously, and repeat until one of your combatants is nicely dead!
lol!
Seriously, the reason combat in the lw books is like this is that originally
the books were published in the 80s, and once someone got a number, all they
had to do was turn to the table.
it's quite possible with a screen reader though that has good table
navigation and if your stuck with the html, i have a fully formatted Ms word
table which one of the project.aon chaps on the message board was kind
enough to whip up for me when i first came across lw in late 2005 (just
before I discovered audiogames in fact), and started asking about screen
reader access.
Part of me does wonder now, if Tom, phil, Jim or someone else clever, ----
with the appropriate amount of time could just whip up an lw combat program
to make all this much quicker, ---- heck, they could even have it roll the
dice for you.
Hth.
Beware the Grue!
Dark
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