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[-] jounniy@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 week ago

Statistically it comes up 5% of the time you use a hero point, so yeah, about as often as rolling a nat 20.

[-] iamthetot@piefed.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Yep! But there's typing that out, and then there's experiencing it first hand, and the latter can be surprising. ;)

[-] jounniy@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, human brains are bad at statistics, so logical outcomes can still surprise us.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Sounds like salience bias.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

People typically don't use fair dice. There's often a much higher than 1/20 chance of getting a particular result

Dice are polished to remove molding marks, which also rounds off edges and makes faces different sizes

[-] jounniy@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 days ago

But they are polished equally on each side, right?

[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

They often are polished the way rocks are, tumbled with abrasives, which randomly wears them down

Few expensive dice will be polished carefully

I trust internet dice rollers over commodity dice, d6 is pretty much the only one easy to get fair versions made for the gambling industry

[-] jounniy@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 day ago
[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

I read a lot and own game science dice. Game science described the process in their marketing to explain how their dice were different

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