Author: FireCat (---.mindspring.com)
Date: 06-18-2002 16:55
Unless you're one of those gamers who rolls dice all the time, even when results don't mean anything, your rolls probably haven't followed averages. I have yet to meet a single gamer whose dice act 'normally' ;). Statistically, what are the odds of rolling a dice X times, where X is the number of different possible results on it, and getting each exactly once? It may have happened to you, but if so, I'd put your name down in a record book. Rolls will probably even out in the larger amounts, of course - but we gamers aren't known for making such calculations possible. At the lower scales, I'm sure it seems like the dice have developed 'personality'; but on the wider scale, all the dice rolled by every person in the world, ignoring environmental factors such as uneven playing surfaces, imperfectly weighted dice, and the like, will even out. Fortunately, I wanted to roll high, and that fellow over in Brazil wanted to roll low, so we're both happy. Or perhaps the other way around, and our dice 'hate' the both of us :)
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