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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7231235" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>And, let's just look at the 3d6 bell curve for a second. That gives a nice, gentle bell curve. But, populations don't look like that. Probably something like 90% of the population would be between 8 and 12. And you certainly wouldn't have 3% of your population with an 18 or a 3. That's ridiculous. The reason we baseline at 10 is because that covers about 90% of the population.</p><p></p><p>The remaining 10% can pretty safely be ignored. But the notion that a given population should follow a 3d6 bell curve is not supported anywhere in the game. Yes, the range is 3-18, fair enough. But, that does not, in any way, presume a smooth distribution through the range.</p><p></p><p>And, let's not forget, [MENTION=6799649]Arial Black[/MENTION], while you're claiming that all sorts of concepts are available if we die roll, it's not actually true. The "I trained like crazy and now I'm an Olympic level athlete" isn't actually available to a character that starts with a 19 or 20 stat, which, your method easily allows for. That character didn't train at all. After all, isn't the claim that die rolling follows natural talent?</p><p></p><p>Which means all your olympic athletes are actually just born that way. They could sit around eating donuts and playing Xbox all day long and they'd still have an olympic level physique.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 7231235, member: 22779"] And, let's just look at the 3d6 bell curve for a second. That gives a nice, gentle bell curve. But, populations don't look like that. Probably something like 90% of the population would be between 8 and 12. And you certainly wouldn't have 3% of your population with an 18 or a 3. That's ridiculous. The reason we baseline at 10 is because that covers about 90% of the population. The remaining 10% can pretty safely be ignored. But the notion that a given population should follow a 3d6 bell curve is not supported anywhere in the game. Yes, the range is 3-18, fair enough. But, that does not, in any way, presume a smooth distribution through the range. And, let's not forget, [MENTION=6799649]Arial Black[/MENTION], while you're claiming that all sorts of concepts are available if we die roll, it's not actually true. The "I trained like crazy and now I'm an Olympic level athlete" isn't actually available to a character that starts with a 19 or 20 stat, which, your method easily allows for. That character didn't train at all. After all, isn't the claim that die rolling follows natural talent? Which means all your olympic athletes are actually just born that way. They could sit around eating donuts and playing Xbox all day long and they'd still have an olympic level physique. [/QUOTE]
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