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Re: [DS] Dicing variants was: Hidden units

From: KH.Ranitzsch@t...
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 17:09:12 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Re: [DS] Dicing variants was: Hidden units

Alexander Williams schrieb:
> > Just note that the sum of two dice does not give a flat 
> > distribution of result probabilities. Not neccessarily a problem,
but 
> > the designer should be aware of it. Similar comments apply to other

> > possible variants of using several dice.
> 
> So don't sum the dice.  As I was saying before, just read 
> the highest value and take that as the result of the roll.  

But that doesn't give a flat probability distribution, either. The
distribution is just different from a sum. 

And, as I said, not neccessarily a problem.

To simulate a D14, D16, D18 etc., you should throw a D20, and reroll
any number over 14, 16, 18 etc.

Greetings


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