Rule of 16? Also, Re: [gurps] Harry Dresden?

[Brandon Cope]

--- On Tue, 3/18/08, Lucas Bodnyk <daletheladrien at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Lucas Bodnyk <daletheladrien at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Rule of 16?  Also, Re: [gurps] Harry Dresden?
> To: "The GURPSnet mailing list" <gurpsnet-l at sjgames.com>
> Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 9:59 PM
> I've never dealt much with resisted spells and
> abilities, but I reread the rule of 16 today, since it
> looks like two of my players will be mages.
> 
> Am I correct in my reading of this, that a mage at
> skill (anything sufficiently high) can never get
> better than a 50% success rate against subjects with a
> 16 or higher relevant resistance?
> 
> Is this a little bit unfair?

Only if the mages constantly run into people with resistances of 16+.

Brandon


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