One of the house rules in our D&D campaign is that although you roll your hit die when leveling up to determine how much your hit point total increases, there's a minimum roll for that die. For my character, who has a d10 hit die, the minimum is 6, so at each level up, she gains between 6 and 10 hit points (plus her constitution bonus).

I was ( Read more... )

Finally had some time to do a bit more cosmetic work on the Song of Ice and Fire RP test probability report generator script again - tables are colorized now, and the whole document produced is a nicely (well, reasonably so) organized book now, with a title page and PDF bookmarks and using a fairly pleasant font, Libertinus Serif.

Here's a sample ( Read more... )

Finally had some time to modify my script to also produce graphs for the probabilities of marginal, great, incredible and astonishing successes in Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying, for each combination of pool size and bonus dice.

Here's a sample plot for the (highly unrealistic) case of 7d6 + 7B:


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I'll join a Song of Ice and Fire RPG campaign soon. The system - by Green Ronin - uses a d6-based roll-and-keep mechanism for tests; the procedure for a regular test for a certain ability is

1. to roll N dice, where N is equal to your ability score;
   
2. to roll K bonus dice (if any), resulting from specialties or from assistance received;
3. discard the ( Read more... )

Do you have malapropisms that really get on your nerves? Ones that stand out in any text you read, in any words you hear, and grate? I do.

I dislike the expression "quantum leap" when it's used to refer to a particularly large (conceptual) jump; a quantum leap is the smallest conceivable leap.

Worse than this is "significant", used in the same ( Read more... )