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[Neruz]

Merlin was the offspring of the Fey and a mortal, not Demons (although the Fey we're talking about here are the Sidhe, who are probably substantially worse than Demons...)



I think thanks to DnD, Tiefling has become pretty much synonymous with 'half demon'.

[Acanthus117]

Sorry about that. 

Back on topic...

Can we give two different attacks the [MAIN] tag, so that they will have a 50/50 chance of doing it?

[Sean Mirrsen]

Yes.

[Acanthus117]

Does this apply to natural attacks, or only weapons?

[Sean Mirrsen]

Both.

[Acanthus117]

Cool! My liches shall have poison/fire/ice breath!

[Sean Mirrsen]

Breath weapons aren't an attack, methinks. You can make them inject several different poisons, maybe, but I'm not so sure about the breaths.

[Footkerchief]

Does this apply to natural attacks, or only weapons?

Yes.

Only for natural attacks, actually.  Weapon attacks don't have that tag -- edged attacks are 100 times more likely than blunt ones, otherwise they're all equally likely.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Well, "yes" in the sense that you can have several attacks with equal probability on weapons and natural attacks alike. I can't say I see a reason to make such a limiting method of attack selection though, when MAIN and SECOND tags worked like a charm. I mean, I'm fine with one kind of attack being 100 times more probable, but I'd like to be able to select WHICH kind of attack is the more probable. Just sayin'.

[SmileyMan]

Or just assign a weight to each would be even easier.

[James.Denholm]

Didn't someone suggest just spamming the blunt-attack-tag however many times to make it be more probable than the one edge-attack-tag?

[toiski]

Didn't someone suggest just spamming the blunt-attack-tag however many times to make it be more probable than the one edge-attack-tag?

Doesn't it process the attack type first and the individual attack second?
So with 1 edged attack and 100 blunt attacks you'd have a 99% chance of getting the edge attack and 1% randomizing between the blunt attacks...

[Shoku]

I'm picturing a seven legged spider with a human face mark back away from it's head.

I see what you did there.

Not so much intentionally.

[warlordzephyr]

Sorry about that. 

Back on topic...

Can we give two different attacks the [MAIN] tag, so that they will have a 50/50 chance of doing it?

lol 50/50 chance of doing it

[budapi]

A quick Wikipedia check:
"The name "Tiefling" was coined by Wolfgang Baur, when original Planescape designer David "Zeb" Cook asked for a Germanic-sounding word for humans with fiendish blood.[citation needed] Baur derived the name from Teufel, or "Devil" in German.[citation needed] The direct translation of Tiefling, however, would be "deepling," since tief means "deep." A closer derivation from Teufel would be teufling."

The German word "Teufel" (devil) stems from Old High German "tiuf" > "tiufl" > "tiuflun" ("-un" having the function of a singular definite article (like in Scandinavian languages)). Old High German "tiuf" corresponds to Standard German "tief" and English "deep", and the particle "-(e)l" to German/English "-ling" (creature/person associated with the attribute before). "Tiefling" is an awesome word for that matter, for it conveys the original pre-Christian (or Romanticism period ) meaning of "one of the (however many) deep-dwellers" rather than "a single being that fucks shit up".