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I'm definitely going to buy this book because I do not own the corresonding 2nd edition books and would like to have the subraces more detailed in the book. Of course, to get a better understanding of, for example, the difference between moon and sun elves, it is better to read the novels (in...

I'm curious about what actually happened to Lolth? Is there anything about this in the adventure or other material? What are the other deities of the drow (the evil ones and the good one) doing about this?

Hello, does anybody know what a potion of Drow Sleeping Poison costs? What do you need to create the poison? Can only drow create this poison? Do they have to have any futher prerequisites besides the fact that they are drow? The only info on the poison that I've found was that in the...

As far as I know, you cannot risk your cohort getting "too much XPs". AFTER aquiring the cohort there needn't be any correlation between your leadership score (or your level) and the cohort's level. For example if your leadership score went down (say due to a charisma decrease by whatever...

After having divided our big set of s^n elements into s subsets indexed by t we divide these subsets two further times: For every outcoming let us denote by l the number of dice that show a result less than t and let us denote by r the number of dice which are among the highest k and show...

I am very sorry about me having mistyped the formula when I posted it for the first time and thus confusing you. You are asking what kind of math is required... Hmm. I think the most important thing to deduce such a formula is your own brain and some logic. On the other hand, it is of course...

The problem is that I have no sum symbol (the greek letter "Sigma") on my keyboard. With it, it would have been easier for me to post the formula. And now to your question: 1) Yes, you sum up over all possibilities of the triple (t, l, r). However, I made a MISTAKE! One has to sum t from 1 to...

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Wow!!! I need to take some math courses. What do you mean by that? Do you mean the number of total possibilities, i.e. the number of all rolls in the (6^4)^6 rolls that generate not useless characters?

Re: Re: Re: Re: Wow!!! I need to take some math courses. These are my results for the number of possibilities to get a specific stat total with the standard PHB method: 62, 1758002851779120 63, 13067562306614040 64...

Hello People from England! I am in Cambridge, England from October on. I am looking for players there either to join a game as a player or to start a new one as the DM.

Re: Re: Wow!!! I need to take some math courses. CRGreathouse, this would mean that my 75.03 ( = 6 x 12.505) is the correct answer compared with your new 73.664... However, where is the error?

Re: Re: Re: Correction of my previous result Addition to these results: The possibility to get a total of 108 (i.e. rolling an 18 all six times) is 0.2 * 10^(-10). For example if your program ran with 9 digit precision, it wouldn't even have noticed this value... I'll try to force Maple to...

Re: Re: Correction of my previous result How do you add your numbers? Do you add all possibilities for all possible outcomes? Maybe the very small ones lead to errors??? The lowest outcome is 62 according to my formula. Its possibility is 0.000424... What is your result to this question?

I haven't seen your post, Elric, so far. However it has convinced me to post my method of calculation: The experiment is the following: We roll an s-sided die n times and add up the k highest results. We ask for the average outcome, say E(n, k, s), of this experiment. The answer is: E(n, k...

Correction of my previous result Ehem, my 74.68... was the answer to the wrong problem. I calculated the average total stats for PC's which have to have at least a total modifier of 0 and not one of 1 as suggested in the PHB. My new answer is 75.03... which is sadly even further away from...

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Average stat total for PHB PC's Hmmm... Do you think the discrepancy is due to numerical reasons, i.e. rounding errors? Since I calculated with rational numbers, then my result should be correct. If you want, we can compare the probabilities of each stat total, however...

Re: Re: Re: Re: Average stat total for PHB PC's Yes, Maple is a Computer Algebra System but I use it for this problem only as a programming tool, which can compute with large numbers. You could also use any programming language which can handle very large integers. And for languages like C...

Re: Re: Average stat total for PHB PC's Oh, what a pity. I'll wait the 30 minutes. By the way, what is your computer power behind the scene? Is your program a C program?

Re: Re: Average stat total for PHB PC's Using the procedure described above and Maple for doing the actual evaluation. The function P(n,u,m,c) can be calculated recursively. I hope my answer is correct. Your program should have finished by now, shouldn't it? What is its output?

I calculated the number of possibilities P(n, u, m, c) to get a total of u with a total modifier m for n stats where every stat has to be <= c. Then the answer is (Z18-Z13)/(N18-N13) where Nx = sum P(6, u, m, x) over all possible u, m>=1, and Zx = sum P(6, u, m, x) * u over all possible...