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Title: Math resources for dice probabilities
Post by: Paolo D. on August 08, 2011, 09:25:10 AM
Hi guys,

actually I'm designing a game with lots of d6. To do some "fine tuning" at the design table, I might need a resource that enable me to easily calculate probabilities of success/failure when someone roll the dice (with variables like the number of dice, the difficulty threshold and so on).

Does any of you know of a website that enable me to easily do this? Maybe something that could give me a graph as output?

Thanks,
Paolo
Title: Re: Math resources for dice probabilities
Post by: Baxil on August 09, 2011, 07:58:30 PM
Paolo,

I typically rely on Troll (http://www.diku.dk/hjemmesider/ansatte/torbenm/Troll/ (http://www.diku.dk/hjemmesider/ansatte/torbenm/Troll/)) - click on the web interface link and you can use it right from your browser.  The interface can be formidable if you don't have programmming experience, but the predefined rolls are excellent templates for 90% of what you'll want to do.

- Bax
Title: Re: Math resources for dice probabilities
Post by: Paolo D. on August 10, 2011, 08:37:04 AM
Hi Baxil,

great link! I'm exploring Troll right now.

Thanks!
Title: Re: Math resources for dice probabilities
Post by: Thunder_God on August 13, 2011, 03:30:43 PM
If you need more advanced help with Troll, I worked with it "some", to create calculators for the Hordes/Warmachine miniature game, you can see my work here (http://privateerpressforums.com/showthread.php?15220-Troll-Dice-Calculator-Rolls.). For the record, Adam Dray helped me when I ran into issues too :)
Title: Re: Math resources for dice probabilities
Post by: Eero Tuovinen on August 15, 2011, 08:56:14 AM
I'm pretty fond of AnyDice (http://anydice.com/) myself. Easy to use, gives graphs and seems to answer most of my off-the-cuff questions with sufficient accuracy.