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Grabbing for die silences the table. You’re waiting to see if your character keeps their weapon intact or if the die decides the fate of the campaign. Will your character keep their sword? Will the twenty-sided die end the campaign? These are critical hits. They’re the stuff of legend. Players remember them. They write them … Read more

But it’s all right there on the calculator (above). It calculate the math for you, including complicated probability distributions that otherwise require a spreadsheet during combat. It translates exploding dice, rerolling, best-of pools and more into easily understandable percentages. Beyond that raw number (beyond whether or not you’ll pass/fail), look deeper at what makes those … Read more

These are the roll under mechanics. There’s always that moment in a tabletop session when the narrative tension hangs entirely on a single roll; you need to hit a target, but you also don’t want to roll too high because then you’ll fumble your spell and blow yourself up or drop your sword into the … Read more

There’s a certain sort of frustration that comes from attempting to assess the risk of an action at the table while your brain resists calculating the probability on the fly. Okay, sure, you’ve got eight dice, you’re looking for three successes, but how safe does that sound? Human intuition fails us when it comes to … Read more

But it’s not truly random. When you roll four six-sided dice, you get a bell curve pattern. If that sounds familiar, its probably from tabletop games in which you roll to determine your ability score. Are you going to be a strong character or a weak one? It depends how much those dice adds up. … Read more

One of the oldest habits in tabletop gaming is rolling three six-sided dice. Shake ’em, drop ’em on the table, tally the pips. It seems random. It isn’t. Behind those plastic cubes is a hidden heavy bell curve, and knowing what it looks like alter your gameplay. Most people think all sums between three and … Read more

There’s this moment in every Mau Mau round where it feels like everything’s gone on too long, and everybody simply wishes they could go home. That’s usually because no one is paying attention to the scoreboard. Strategy goes out the window as the conversation turn to who can bluster his way through his hand without … Read more