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    D&D 5E Calculating Overkill Damage

    Count me in the group that thinks this is a useful white-room exercise. Here is how I think about this problem: There is a combatant fighting an infinite supply of identical enemies, each with H hit points. The probability that the combatant hits an enemy with an attack is p; when the combatant...
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    D&D 5E Randomly generating point-buy arrays

    Hi guys, Here's a simple method for randomly generating ability score arrays of a fixed point-buy value. It's simple enough to use at the table: all it requires is a bunch of 6-sided dice! (I'm sure you can find enough.) It can be adjusted for different point-buy values and for different...
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    D&D 5E How Many Point Buy Options

    For a point buy with 27 points, there turn out to be 65 different valid arrays. The easiest way to find these is to enumerate all possible arrays (all combinations of scores 8 through 15 each), and discard those whose point buy value is not 27 (using a computer of course). Here they are...
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