#the roll resolution with nothing gives you better odds than mid-tier dice pools. statistically disincentivizing using your skills.
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blasting into a discord with my 750,000 simulated dice rolls and stem background to argue about the rules of a game with the designer
#to clarify i am not doing this to be an asshole i am doing it because i had neat dice facts and strong opinions#there's a specific rule about how rolls are resolved if you don't have *anything* in your dice pool#but unfortunately in tough situations (where you'd be cutting the highest 1 or 2 results)#the roll resolution with nothing gives you better odds than mid-tier dice pools. statistically disincentivizing using your skills.#to be fair one can come up with potential narrative and mechanical workarounds as a dm#and it does require your players to either be desperate (not putting together an alternate route) or to have also run the numbers#(and to be willing to use a mechanical loophole)#but as i had neat stats information (hooray!) and one of my favorite activities is rules-lawyering i had to say *something*#anyway! dice-rolling stats are *weird* and vary *wildly* depending on how your system uses them#and a fun and easy thing you can do before playing any new ttrpg is get yourself some dice stats information#familiarize yourself with your odds of success
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