razlyubleno

I would have to track all revisions to the fixpack to make sure I stay current.

The Fixpack's codebase is pretty much static at this point. Very little actually changes from version to version.

... not much to keep up with, in other words.

razly

I'm taking a look at it just now, but if everything is as how you describe it, then you should most certainly be proud... this is quite an accomplishment.

razly

I wonder if there will be any new grandmasters of D&D.
If not, that's really *really* sad.
I leave open to discussion about what is considered D&D though... (3.5? 4.0?)

It ceased to be D&D after the 2nd edition. That's my completely biased opinion. I hope people realize that a classic game was created, and that gradually redefining the rules is not going to make it any more classic. Really, I wish we could just sit back and appreciate the masterpiece. Beethoven's 9th is fine how it is. 2nd edition D&D is just fine, too. No more editions please.

razly

Wow. That's really sad.

razly

As the top value of a skill is 127. This is cause the the game engine is binary based, and so... the value can be from 0 to 127

A byte can hold 256 different values. The correct range is -127 to 128 for signed bytes, and 0 to 255 for unsigned bytes.

This is the same in the normal decimal math, but the calculations are usually restricted to none negative values, or the negative value is represented with an "-" mark, and not with a 999... value.

Either method is possible when doing the math by hand.

For computers, there are many different ways to represent negative numbers in binary. The simplest is to use the most significant bit to signal whether the number is negative or not, leaving you with only a 7-bit range. But it would be entirely up to the engine to decide if the most significant bit is a sign bit, since the sign is not stored in a real sense.

IE might use Two's Compliment, though. I'm not sure.

razly