| From: | scott@**********.com (Scott Harrison) |
|---|---|
| Subject: | SR4 Conversion |
| Date: | Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:20:41 -0400 |
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 06:41:00PM +0200, Gurth wrote:
>> 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? ;)
>
> BTW, while calculating the odds in the new system may be a big harder,
> it's
> still not completely trivial. You need to calculate binomial
> coefficients
> to do it right.
>
I am sure I will come out with some silly program that will calculate
odds for people once I know what the new system is. And I will
probably make comparisons to the old system. And I will probably
augment the SRDiceRoller to handle SR4, or perhaps just come out with
an SR4 version that differs from the SR3 version and label them. I
just need to wait to get my hands on the rules since no one thought to
send me a set before it is officially released. How is a programmer to
program these things without the rules? :-)
--
Scott Harrison
