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When aiming to roll for a 50/50, does the die size matter?
I noticed how D&D 5e's Hexblade Warlock subclass feature Armor of Hexes imposes a chance to miss regardless of the attacker's roll. That chance is based on a d6: if it's a 4 or higher it misses...
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@izzion said in pendants.stackexchange:
When aiming to roll for a 50/50, does the die size matter?
I noticed how D&D 5e's Hexblade Warlock subclass feature Armor of Hexes imposes a chance to miss regardless of the attacker's roll. That chance is based on a d6: if it's a 4 or higher it misses...
The answer is "It doesn't matter. The D&D police aren't going to kick in the door and deport you and your buddies to whatever location in the D&D setting is most similar to Guantanamo Bay."
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in pendants.stackexchange:
The answer is "It doesn't matter. The D&D police aren't going to kick in the door and deport you and your buddies to whatever location in the D&D setting is most similar to Guantanamo Bay."
That sounds like a fun campaign.
I can understand the user not being sure. When working on my roguelike, I did a lot of modelling with random number curves, and found them a bit less than intuitive (at first; I think I understand now). Like how rolling more smaller dice will have a lower standard deviation and right-shifted median and minimum than 1 larger die with the same number of sides.
In this case, yes, 50/50 is 50/50, but better to check with the
expertsnerds.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in pendants.stackexchange:
whatever location in the D&D setting is most similar to Guantanamo Bay
If you want to model that, you're better off using GURPS.
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@error said in pendants.stackexchange:
rolling more smaller dice will have a lower standard deviation and right-shifted median
Once you roll more than a single die, you're talking about the binomial distribution. Those have quite a pronounced central peak and are fairly realistic about how things are distributed in reality. The more dice you roll, the more closely you approximate to a normal distribution; that's the infinite limit case.
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@dkf said in pendants.stackexchange:
Once you roll more than a single die, you're talking about the binomial distribution. Those have quite a pronounced central peak and are fairly realistic about how things are distributed in reality. The more dice you roll, the more closely you approximate to a normal distribution; that's the infinite limit case.
Again, though, it's important to recognize that most dice don't have a "0", so by rolling more, you're increasing the minimum roll (and the median, as a corollary to that).
I was much more fascinated by the random distributions used by Nethack, which have all kinds of funky shapes that I don't think can be accurately modelled with dice.
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@error said in pendants.stackexchange:
I was much more fascinated by the random distributions used by Nethack, which have all kinds of funky shapes that I don't think can be accurately modelled with dice.
Depends on how much math you want to do. Dice just create entropy, the rest is computation.
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@error said in pendants.stackexchange:
Again, though, it's important to recognize that most dice don't have a "0", so by rolling more, you're increasing the minimum roll (and the median, as a corollary to that).
So just subtract the number of dice rolled from the roll. Presto, your minimum roll is now 0.
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Of course it matters. Hypothetically speaking, when you roll a d6, it could land on a corner, slightly deforming the structure of the die and thereby biasing the following rolls. A d20 or even a d100 is much more spherical, and has less pronounced corners/edges, so it makes sense to assume that the deformations (and the chance of such occurring) are smaller.
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Do you know about moment generating functions? It's basically taking the two-sided Laplace transform of a probability distribution. If that makes sense, check out:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1025&context=grrj
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@Captain said in pendants.stackexchange:
It's basically taking the two-sided Laplace transform of a probability distribution.
Made-up words thread is
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Make sure you don't use one of these.
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@Captain said in pendants.stackexchange:
Do you know about moment generating functions?
I do, but could you phrase it in the form of an endofuctor for the peanut gallery?
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@Captain said in pendants.stackexchange:
It's basically taking the two-sided Laplace transform of a probability distribution. If that makes sense
That didn't make sense when I was studying Laplace transforms 35 years ago; it makes even less sense after 35 years of avoiding that sort of math.
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Well, it's a function defined over the reals that comes from integrating a probability distribution function (also defined over the reals), making the integral operator an example of an endofunctor.
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@boomzilla I might be in this comic.
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@HardwareGeek said in pendants.stackexchange:
@boomzilla I might be in this comic.
Not for much longer.
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@HardwareGeek said in pendants.stackexchange:
@Captain said in pendants.stackexchange:
It's basically taking the two-sided Laplace transform of a probability distribution. If that makes sense
That didn't make sense when I was studying Laplace transforms 35 years ago; it makes even less sense after 35 years of avoiding that sort of math.
Kinda agreed - the normal (one sided, if you want) Laplace transform makes sense. Doing a two-sided one feels like you actually wanted a Fourier transform, but got scared of the imaginary numbers and consequently just half-assed it.
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@cvi said in pendants.stackexchange:
the normal (one sided, if you want) Laplace transform makes sense.
Tell that to the me of 35 years ago. It didn't really make sense to me then. I kinda understood it, but not really; I was a year or so beyond my depth in math. I got through the class, eventually, but never really understood it well. There's a reason my career has been in digital electronics instead of analog.
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@HardwareGeek said in pendants.stackexchange:
I kinda understood it, but not really; I was a year or so beyond my depth in math.
I felt that way for a good part of my studies. There are plenty of things that clicked into place years after the respective courses. (And others turned out to be insufficiently relevant to my life to ever appear again.)
There's a reason my career has been in digital electronics instead of analog.
I mainly remember the Laplace transform because it made a good chunk of the exercises of our (fairly basic) analog electronics simpler than the advertised "simple" approach.
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@cvi said in pendants.stackexchange:
And others turned out to be insufficiently relevant to my life to ever appear again.
This. I intentionally chose my career path so that it would be irrelevant. (I'd already chosen to focus on digital, but the math involved in analog reinforced that choice.)
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@boomzilla said in pendants.stackexchange:
Couldn't a buffalo rifle be used to shoot a bison though?
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@Zecc would you put a tomato in a fruit salad?
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@boomzilla Depends on whose fruit salad.
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@boomzilla said in pendants.stackexchange:
Why does he think that a "pedantic jackass rifle" is suited for shooting American bisons?
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@BernieTheBernie I figured he found something he would rather shoot
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@boomzilla said in pendants.stackexchange:
It's a pretty common thing for people to do. English colonists called bison "buffalo." Spanish colonists called llamas and alpacas "goats." Starfleet explorers called bat'leths "swords."
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@Mason_Wheeler And native Americans are still often called Indians because we're stupid.
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@error native isn't a very good term anyway, when we'll let the people that are currently being born there to be called native of that place? are you native to where, the outer space?
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@error Do it the Canadian way, and call them First Nations, as a generic group, or by their actual name (Sioux, for example) if specific
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@sockpuppet7 said in pendants.stackexchange:
@error native isn't a very good term anyway, when we'll let the people that are currently being born there to be called native of that place? are you native to where, the outer space?
Invasive species are a thing, you know. They're by definition not native to where the specimens are born in.
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@GÄ ska
Humans are pretty invasive...
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@Mingan said in pendants.stackexchange:
First Nations
The Sumerians, Minoans, Egyptians, Chinese, Indians, and a few others would like a word with you.
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@HardwareGeek Those are already recognised as organised groups and refered to properly, not so much for the First Nations of America
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What I'd really like to know is what this thread has to do with jewelry...
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@Quietust said in pendants.stackexchange:
What I'd really like to know is what this thread has to do with jewelry...
I guess that âpendantâ started here as an autocarroted version of âpedantâ, and amused people so it entered the forum lexiconâŚ
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@Zecc said in pendants.stackexchange:
Now I'm curious whether someone summoned @Quietust with an @mention or if he just so happened to show up on the day I made a Signature Guy joke in a thread topic.
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@topspin Just a coincidence, I assure you.
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@dkf said in pendants.stackexchange:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in pendants.stackexchange:
whatever location in the D&D setting is most similar to Guantanamo Bay
If you want to model that, you're better off using GURPS.
I would say FATAL, but nobody should be subjected to that.
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@dkf said in pendants.stackexchange:
@Quietust said in pendants.stackexchange:
What I'd really like to know is what this thread has to do with jewelry...
I guess that âpendantâ started here as an autocarroted version of âpedantâ, and amused people so it entered the forum lexiconâŚI think it's the semi-common practice of doing an emoji search and picking a result that's close (in spelling) to what you meant.
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@error said in pendants.stackexchange:
@dkf said in pendants.stackexchange:
@Quietust said in pendants.stackexchange:
What I'd really like to know is what this thread has to do with jewelry...
I guess that âpendantâ started here as an autocarroted version of âpedantâ, and amused people so it entered the forum lexiconâŚI think it's the semi-common practice of doing an emoji search and picking a result that's close (in spelling) to what you meant.
Or at least shares one letter
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@error said in pendants.stackexchange:
@dkf said in pendants.stackexchange:
@Quietust said in pendants.stackexchange:
What I'd really like to know is what this thread has to do with jewelry...
I guess that âpendantâ started here as an autocarroted version of âpedantâ, and amused people so it entered the forum lexiconâŚI think it's the semi-common practice of doing an emoji search and picking a result that's close (in spelling) to what you meant.
Our
emote is a custom one, made long after the meme
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@hungrier I swear it's just my CRS syndrome. I've been here since the longlongago and the beforetimes.
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@error said in pendants.stackexchange:
I think it's the semi-common practice of doing an emoji search and picking a result that's close (in spelling) to what you meant.
Now that you mention it... it's where we got
for anger as well.
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@error said in pendants.stackexchange:
@hungrier I swear it's just my CRS syndrome. I've been here since the longlongago and the beforetimes.
But you can't prove it since everybody joined on May 20, 2014, when we apparently fucked over to another forum software!
Okay, technically your first post is recorded as October 2006, beating me at April 2008. Damn you.
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