From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-01-07T08:14:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Dice Roller (#61)

On 06/01/06, Sascha Abel <sascha.abel@ewetel.name> wrote:
> Austin Ziegler wrote:
>> No. d00/d%/d100 all refer to values from 1 to 100. It should be
>> considered impossible to get a value of 0 from dice. Strictly
>> speaking, d100 should be a special case simulated where you are
>> rolling two d10 values and treating one of them as the 10s and one of
>> them as the 1s. Again, it results in a slightly different curve than
>> a pure d100 result would be.
> How exactly would those d10s differ from a d100?

In the same way that 3d6 is different than rand(16)+3. It's not
necessarily as dramatic a difference, but IME, the incidences of the
very lows (01-19) and very highs (81-00) are not as common as those in
the middle.

>> One gaming system developed by Gary Gygax after he was ousted from
>> TSR in the mid-80s used what he termed d10x, which was d10*d10,
>> resulting in values from 1 - 100 with a radically different
>> probability curve than a normal d100.
> Not only a different curve, but also some values would be impossible
> to get (as 13 and 51)

Yes.

-austin
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