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ChikOppi
chikoppi

Mon

Aug 16
1999

20:44



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Need Dice Mechanic

At 2:57 PM -0500 8/16/99, John Harper wrote:
>1) Roll d20.
>
>* If you roll 1-5, keep this total and roll again, subtracting the "tens"
>digit of the second roll from your total.
>
>* If you roll 16-20, keep this total and roll again, adding the "tens"
>digit of the second roll to your total.
>
>If on the second roll you get 1-5 or 16-20, add/subtract the "tens" digit
>and roll again. Repeat as necessary.

    Ah, I like it! So, if I'm not mistaken (I'm terrible with statistics, so I probably am), the percentage spread looks something like this:

Etc.
-19 through -10 : 0.3125%
-9 through 5 : 1.25%
6 through 15 : 5%
16 through 25: 1.25%
26 through 36 : 0.3125%
Etc.


Brian Koppi
chikoppi@pipeline.com
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