• BLAMM67@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    This kind of thinking is wasteful. Every d20 has a finite lifespan. It was created, and it will, at some time in the future be destroyed, as all things are. That means it has a finite number of rolls in its lifetime, with an equal distribution of all possible outcomes. When you “practice roll” and get a nat 20, you have wasted one of the limited number of nat 20s that die has in it. Think of the 20s. Don’t practice roll.

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      On the contrary, it will not be the number of rolls that destroys it, but being thrown away. You should roll it as much as you can before then, any time spent not rolling is time wasted!

    • ButteryMonkey@piefed.social
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      Besides, everyone knows you play the long game of training your dice by always resting them with the high value up.

      It probably does nothing, but maybe the atoms shift over time and it warps just a bit and rolls better.

    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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      🎶These dice are spinning around me

      🎶The whole table’s spinning without me

      🎶Every sesh sends future to past

      🎶Every roll leaves me one less to my last

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      That’s stupid. But obviously how the dice strikes the table impacts its balance and therefore the probability of rolling specific numbers. So we must figure out what side need to strike the table first to decrease the probability of getting an undesirable roll. Boom, I out physicsed you’re probabilities.

      • Minnels@lemmy.zip
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        I did this with d6. I am a master at rolling low, cursed you may say but if I pick up a 1 the chance of rolling another one is lower. Or at least in my mind and memory.