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True, but considering that's expected in average, it doesn't change the balance. Though I agree it changes gameplay drastically, since it becomes possible to calculate what is going to happen exactly. I don't know how that mod works, but poisoning should be reduced by the probability of the event so...

While I agree that it changes the gameplay significantly, I don't see how it could change balance... unless of course (I should have thought of that) average damage/effect is rounded to the nearest integer or up/down, since being up to half a point over or below average is huge. Imho, there are two ...

Oh OK, nice.

I suppose this closes the problem once and for all ! Well, at least as long as this mod maintains compatibility with the stable versions...

First to make things clear, I love randomness, am very happy with how it's implemented in Wesnoth and would hate what I'm going to suggest. I noticed some complains from people who hate randomness, sometimes using dubious arguments such as "randomness destroys competition". These arguments...

The OP mentioned that he wanted the least damage counterattack, so that another unit of his choosing would get the kill and associated XP. Sacrificing a pawn can get you a queen... No counterattack looks like the adequate option in this case. Concerning a Block counterattack, I know it potentially h...

Correct me if I'm wrong, doesn't being able to choose one default counterattack break the rules ? There should be one default counterattack per attack category, i.e. melee and ranged, considering a ranged attack can't be countered by a melee one and vice versa. And may I suggest the ability to choos...

Okay, thanks for this very documented reply. In my experience PRNGs are a hot topic on games generally due to people falsely thinking they know enough from having taken a quarter or two of Stats to be able to show some sort of error or bias; usually with only a half-dozen or so data points. Yes I kn...

The random number generator is Mersenne Twister MT19937. and not biased other than by things like terrain, weapon, time-of-day, etc. Interesting... I guess you didn't implement it yourself but rather use it from a standard library. Do you know what the initial conditions are, i.e. how it's initiali...