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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7418149" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>It is still a normal distribution, as any distribution of independent measurements is by definition. The 'pyramid' you refer to is merely a result of the fairly high standard deviation and the granularity of the measurement (that there are only 10 discrete values in this case). Obviously if you take more measurements (use more dice) then you will get a steeper curve (smaller standard deviation) and because more different results are possible, it will also be a better fit to the bell curve.</p><p></p><p>What IS true, even for 2d10, is that getting a +1 when you need a 12 to pass a check is vastly more useful than getting a +1 when you need an 18 to pass a check. As I said before though, given that most checks in 4e fall into a range of requiring an 8-14 to pass them, you're not going to see a massive difference if you use 2d10 vs 1d20. It will be different for specific checks, but its going to mostly come out in the wash.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 7418149, member: 82106"] It is still a normal distribution, as any distribution of independent measurements is by definition. The 'pyramid' you refer to is merely a result of the fairly high standard deviation and the granularity of the measurement (that there are only 10 discrete values in this case). Obviously if you take more measurements (use more dice) then you will get a steeper curve (smaller standard deviation) and because more different results are possible, it will also be a better fit to the bell curve. What IS true, even for 2d10, is that getting a +1 when you need a 12 to pass a check is vastly more useful than getting a +1 when you need an 18 to pass a check. As I said before though, given that most checks in 4e fall into a range of requiring an 8-14 to pass them, you're not going to see a massive difference if you use 2d10 vs 1d20. It will be different for specific checks, but its going to mostly come out in the wash. [/QUOTE]
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