> > 1) I'd like to know how attacks are resolved when the Attack score is less than the Defense score.
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> When attack and defense are equal, you do 1 point of damage with every other hit, and 0 points with the remainder of the hits. When attack is one less than defense, you do 1 point of damage every three hits. And so on.
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This is great information, Sam -- thanks. One other question I forgot to include is, how is attack rate determined from Agility? Is attack rate expressable as "x number of attacks per combat turn" or something along those lines? (And if so, what constitutes a combat turn?)

Right now it seems that if you're battling a well-defended opponent, you'd do better to pump up your Attack score as much as possible, so that you deal damage on one attack out of three instead of one attack in five, for example. But if your Attack is already pretty close to the opponent's Defense and you have the opportunity to improve Agility, a couple of extra attacks might be worthwhile.