It's weird that Swen contradicts himself like that, but I think referring to the dice rolls as hard was just a poor choice of words on his part.
As he says in the latter paragraph, it's pure RNG. There's nothing easy or hard about that, it's completely random. Like he said, some people are just getting pissed because of having bad luck sometimes, but that's how RNG works. It can seem like it's working against you but it's not.
I understood it as "hard evidence", in the sense it's concrete and indisputable, the roll is there and that's that, no dicussion on whether you have enough skill to succeed or not:
(Oxford Dictionary, "hard")
9. facts/evidence
[only before noun] definitely true and based on information that can be proved
- Is there any hard evidence either way?
- The newspaper story is based on hard facts.
I like it that the followers aren't always kissing my characters ass. It was a bit odd at first after so many games where followers are more like thralls to the player. But I enjoyed it. The Geth woman, she was loads of fun. I confess my Drow Rogue had a lot of fun antagonizing her.
And I am surprised they said they only put in neutral or evil characters as Gale and the warlock dude both seem on the good side. But I suppose neutral could work since they both did something you could argue wasn't very good. Still both tend to like it when you make "good" choices or decisions.
Lae'zel is something, isn't she?
Some fierce and feisty warrior. And she can't stand Shadowheart, so having them together is fun. Add Wyll to the mix, who'll try to hit on her and get biting responses, it certainly won't be boring.
I'm not sure I'd put Gale on the good side, he's pretty selfish-neutral, no?
But definitely not evil (except if you fail his miserable revive protocol).
Btw, everytime there's one of those "more info" links on announcement posts like this, the link just takes me to the very thread I was already on. Instead of a source, like I would assume would be the result.
The link brings me from the forum URL to the newsbit URL (
in a new tab), which only has the news post, and the game info box on the right with the handy "Details" link. Perhaps your browser blocks the new tab?