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This mechanic is intended to be the equivalent of social initiative when the party begins an encounter, so this scenario is a bit strained. The only way you can have it be Assaulting is if the party had killed the king's brother in front of the king and/or his security; as Presentation is a behavio...

The royal adviser has tricked you (the party) into killing the king's beloved brother by framing him for planning a failed coup, which you now know was actually planned by the adviser. How does the king react upon hearing of this secondhand from the adviser: a. Order your execution and place a bount...

Huh, so N must be greater than or equal to 2R - 1 for CDF(N,R) to be greater than or equal to 0.5 (50%). I can't tell just looking at the charts; are there similarly simple formulas for 12.5%, 25%, 75%, and 87.5%? I'm hoping to see a pattern between them in order to develop easy to remember rules of...

I'm curious what the distribution looks like when the variables are "# of fair coins flipped" (or xd6 at or above target number 4) vs. "required number of heads" (required number of successes).

DragonChild wrote:f is the actual probability of getting the number of hits you want.

Precisely the number of hits you want, or at least the number of hits you want?

Some trends that might be worth extrapolating from: How much of the world is designed more by the algorithms and magic rituals people are using, than by the people themselves? (P=NP might have interesting implications for this) How can you justify an underutilized workforce and global resource short...