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From: korishinzo@*****.com (Ice Heart)
Subject: SR4 Conversion
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:48:07 -0700 (PDT)
> > I can't say I ever really cared about the odds in SR's system.
> > After 13 years, you kind of develop a feel for what number of
> > dice and what TN is going to give which results :)

> Guess I'm the only one who wrote a computer program to calculate
> the odds and then made a 3D plot of success probability vs. TN and
> number of dice being rolled, huh? ;)

Except for the 3D plot part, we did something like that. Ran
probability charts for 1-25 dice at TN's of 2-26. Rolling a 26 on 1
die is not going to happen very often. Then again, rolling a 26 on
25 dice didn't happen often either. :)

======Korishinzo
--I'm with Gurth, never cared about the odds much... intuition served
me well enough



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