Migrated to GitLabI’ve decided to migrate the canonical version of articles to a GitLab wiki. You can also get updates at my WordPress. Mostly this is to get…Jul 25, 2021Jul 25, 2021
Exploding dice: odds and endsMiscellaneous items that I didn’t cover in the series proper, which I tried to keep focused on effective hit points.Mar 8, 2021Mar 8, 2021
Effective HP versus: exploding diceAs we saw last time, the tail of a normal distribution falls approximately as exp(-x²), which makes the EHP in the right tail grows…Feb 14, 2021Feb 14, 2021
Effective HP versus: XdYIt’s well-known that as you sum dice together that you start to get a bell curve shape (normal distribution). For standard dice this…Feb 14, 2021Feb 14, 2021
Effective HP versus: d20The most famous RPG is Dungeons & Dragons, and its core mechanic is rolling 1d20, adding a modifier, and comparing it to a target number…Feb 14, 2021Feb 14, 2021
