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James Margaris @markymarg2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I worked on a game like UO (Lucadian Chronicles, also an Ogre Battle inspired game) that had no RNG other than that units of the same speed took turns in random order, and fights could still be pretty swingy just due to order. In one fight two of your guys go first and kill their key guy, battle won

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James Margaris @markymarg2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

UO fights are chaos theory in action. (Nobody talks about Chaos Theory anymore! Remember that?) "A butterfly flaps its wings in Japan and causes a hurricane in California." I think they basically *have* to preview the results or else the game would be tremendously frustrating and random.

1:22 AM · Sep 28, 2026

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James Margaris @markymarg2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Interestingly Ogre Battle itself doesn't really have this problem because damage is pretty low compared to HP, which allows RNG to come out in the wash, and it has no abilities like "if you crit attack again" or "if the enemy is poisoned they take double damage." It's very numerically stable.

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