You had me in the first half for real
Comment on Odds of rolling a 7 with a weighted die
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
You’re marginally less likely to roll a 7 with a single weighted die.
My reasoning: if you use your weighted die, whoever you’re gambling against might figure it out. Now they’re pissed, they’re gonna give you the beat down. But you’re packing, and OH SHIT YOU DIDN’T MEAN TO HIT HIM IN THE HEAD YOU WERE AIMING FOR HIS LEG SHIT SHIT and now you’re serving jail time for manslaughter and dice aren’t allowed in jail, thus you won’t be able to roll any 7s for a while.
Yermaw@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
pleasejustdie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Don’t worry, there are dice in (at least some) prisons, every cell block had at least one D&D group going with 4-6 people, and they used dice.
Source: Was a prison guard in the ARMY for 4 years at Fort Lewis.
Deestan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ah, so the chance of rolling a 7 changes to 1/20?
pleasejustdie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If you’re rolling D20s, but there are also D4s, D6s, D8s, D10s, and D12s for 5e, and some spells require multiple of the same dice, so rolling 6d6 is a very real scenario, so you can have plenty of dice to use to find variations to get to 7 with different sided dice.
Deestan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That just sounds confusing. You’re putting me off murder now.
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I read an article written by an inmate who explained how they’d form dice out of toilet paper (because dice were banned in his case) to play D&D. I assumed that was the case in most facilities.
pleasejustdie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, no doubt different facilities run things differently. Depends on where you are, who governs it and it’s security level. Low security gets more privileges than medium, high, or maximum security. Though for us medium security and lower could have small games, dice, dominoes, etc during rec hours.