Chaska the Magic Dog  Jul 18, 2023

#askfedi

What are you opinions on the d20 dice itself. Do you find that it creates too large of a spread? Do you dislike how most games use the 1 and the 20 for critical failures and successes? Do you swap it out for 3d6 or something else?

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Show threadLuigi Jul 18, 2023
@ChaskaTheMagicDog disliking d20s was one of the reasons my group adopted GURPS in the 90s, and switched to the D6-dicepool Silhouette in the 2000s.
Show threadOblomovJul 23, 2023
@luigirenna @ChaskaTheMagicDog isn't that kind of different though? The number of sides in a dice determine the granularity of the result under the constraint of uniformity of distribution for the outcomes, while the d6 pool is for normal distributions is outcomes.
I guess ultimately the question is: are there cases where you might need more than 6 equally-probable outcomes?
Show threadChaska the Magic Dog  
@oblomov @luigirenna in regards to the math. A d6 only has a 16.66...% Chance to land on a single number. And a d20 has a 5% chance for each number. And in a d20 game there is typically only 4 outcomes: success, failure, critical success, and critical failure, all at different probabilities of success. You can take a d100 and do the EXACT same spread as a d20 without any issues and the probability remains the same. For most people, the dice the choose is because they want different probabilities
Jul 23, 2023 at 8:15amWeb