USING CHANCE WELL IN GAMES

Extra Credits has a great series of vids that show how you can use RNG/chance in great ways. Chance can be REALLY horrible when abused, but it's that spice of randomness that adds a little bit of excitement in games, you know? While consistency keeps your game "fair", leaning towards too much consistency makes everything rather predictable, and that's sure to make your game boring after a while.

Anyway, here are the videos in question:



The last one is for esports, but I think we can still apply it.

author=LockeZ

author=Crystalgate
it works better if the game is set up so that it's multiple rolls that matters rather than single rolls in critical situations. Over a hundred attacks, if you have 30% evasion, you can expect to evade somewhat close to 30 attacks and that way conserve healing.

And yet when I make enemies that take more than 3 hits to kill, in order to actually accomplish this type of gameplay, I get people screaming at me that my battles take forever, and player/enemy HP both need to be halved to double the battle speed, and that the game is completely unplayable because battles take more than a minute each.

Number of hits need not be proportional to battle length. I seem to recall the idea of a single attack command representing multiple hits being used in jrpgs at least as far back as the original Final Fantasy.