Proposed Lands Perilous Calandar

Peter Knutsen peter at KNUTSEN.DK
Sun Jun 17 22:24:10 CEST 2001


Scott Adams wrote:
>
> At 01:22 PM 6/16/01 +0200, you wrote:
> >>
> >> >For people wishing to roll dates (birth date?):
> >> >     1d6 for season
> >> >         1d2 for month of season
> >> >             1d5 for week of month
> >> >                1d6 for day of week
> >>
> >>  That gives averages of the middle seasons might use alternative of
> >> D12 for month and get a wider range maybe.
> >>
> >
> >Huh? Looks like a flat distribution to me...
>
> I'm talking average die results ie d6 3-4 etc...how the averages fall.
> D12 would tend to average 5-7 makig it a bit robust..but it works
> ither way :)

No, Matjis is correct, rolling 1d12 is the exact same as first
rolling 1d6 and then rolling 1d2. The only objective difference
whatsoever is that rolling a single dice is faster. Subjectively
the single dice may *appear* to be more "robust", but it isn't.

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Peter Knutsen



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