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Roleplaying taught my players that I streak with dice, average, average, poor, get those bloody dice off him before he kills us all.
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Shahbahraz wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 8:53 am It always amazes me that some wargamers don't have a grasp of the fundamentals of probability. It's when and where you roll the outlier result that makes a huge difference.
You can generalise that to any odds based gambling, lotteries, the pools etc. It is a Dark Art to many. To those of us who fall outside the standard deviation however .... :evilgrin:
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Can confirn I am a standard deviant.
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I'd say you probably are. 😄
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As indeed do his police records.
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
Baron Mannshed von Wreckedoften, First Sea Lord of the Bavarian Admiralty.
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goat major wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 8:57 am I also learned that dice hate humans.
:thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs:
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
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Jeremy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 25, 2021 9:36 am

Ask him to explain average dice then where the two extremes are removed
Howard Whitehouse explains average dice in A Gentleman's War.

They were invented to make wargames boring.
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Average dice are actually 2d2.5
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I have yet to achieve a result of 4.5 on one.
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It's in the wrist Buff...
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