#DICE

[littlealienproducts]

Sorbet Sunset DnD Dice Set by FennekandFinch

[imma-dragon53]

I have dice!

I’ll share.

Dice

Oh so you wanna play an RPG?

Well, sorry.

No dice

[ccartandcomics]

Roll for art prompts!

[darkelfdice]

All you need is love :)

[crownedinmarigolds]

@thesixthplaneteer made me a dice tray filled with rose petals....!! I love you, how cool!!!!!

[prokopetz]

You know, I'd genuinely never thought about what the general case of a generating function for an X-keep-Y dice pool would look like in practice. I guess I've never actually played a game that uses X-keep-Y dice pools large enough to warrant that approach. I'd love to see what conclusions you arrive at if you manage to get it working.

While we're talking about AnyDice, do you know if there's a way to accurately test the probability of multiple outcomes on unconventional dice? The below link is an abriged test of an implementation of FFG's Genesys dice I found on a forum thread; the tester was trying to work out if the implementation was even correct, and testing for 2 Advantages AND two Successes on one ability dice (which is impossible, but AnyDice gives 1.56%). The ability dice is a d8; only one side has 2A and only one side has 2S, and they're different sides. The intuition is that because the advantage sides and the successes sides are defined in different orders, the same index for success and advantage should be used which will never see a 2 on both arrays. AnyDice just outputs the intersection of the two 1-in-8s, 1/64 = 0.015625. Do you know of any way to get the intuitive output, or is this just a reflection of AnyDice being a probability calculator and not a dice roller? https://anydice.com/program/3aeb3

Yeah, no, that's completely wrong. What you've got there is is a script to generate the results of rolling two dice, one of which has only success symbols and no advantage symbols, and the other of which has only advantage symbols and no success symbols. That's where your unexpected intersection is coming from.

The problem here is that, because each die can have multiple kinds of symbols on it, potentially including multiple kinds of symbols on a single face, and we care about the total number of each kind of symbol, our odds become a sum of vectors rather than a sum of scalars. I'm not aware of any widely available dice probability calculator that can elegantly handle dice which produce vector results.

We can cheat a bit in this particular case, though, because the fact that we don't need to deal with negative numbers means we can convert a vector result to a scalar result by assigning each symbol a power of ten.

For the sake of argument, let's assign each "success" a value of 10, and each "advantage" a value of one. This, a face with one "success" symbol becomes a 10; a face with two "success" symbols, a 20; a face with one "success" and one "advantage", an 11; and so forth.

In the table of results, we then examine the digits individually, with the "tens" place being read as the number of success symbols, and the "ones" place being read as the number of advantage symbols.

Expressed in this way in AnyDice terms, a Genesys skill die becomes:

output 1d{0, 10, 10, 20, 1, 1, 11, 2}

In the resulting table, you'll see that your anomalous intersection has vanished; there's a 12.5% chance of "2" (that is, two advantages with zero successes), and a 12.5% chance of "20" (two successes with zero advantages), but no "22" (two successes with two advantages).

Note, however, that this only works correctly with up to four dice; with five or more, there will be some outcomes where the number of advantage symbols exceeds nine and "overflows" into the successes column, polluting your results.

Clear as mud?

[sugarpopparty]

Dark Love Spell 🖤❤️🖤

[alliegations]

coping with kokichis death again

[iwilltryalittlearter]

One thing I love about buying random dice singles is discovering when the lights are out that some of them were secretly capable of

✨glowing in the dark✨

[fightingchancestudio]

I plan on making more of these ceramic dice, but what else are you looking forward to seeing more of?

[alchemistsattic]

I'll get around to editing the video of making this commissioned set of Undertale dice eventually... I only made them in 2023, that's not too long ago, right? right?

[geekmeup-scotty]

So many sets to ink! These I have out to number in bronze tonight.

[bugsinthebayou]

these would be perfect for a children's hospital!

[vntys]

31 days of agere stimboards; day 20 - your favorite animal!

x x x / x o x / x x x

[prokopetz]

Given how much of feline play and social behaviour are imitative in character, I feel like it shouldn't come as a surprise to gamers that their cats want to roll the shiny math rocks, too. Like, you demonstrated that this is a form of play and let them watch you do it. They're participating!