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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 6413768" data-attributes="member: 15700">I'm not going to reply with a giant wall of text because it would probably fall on deaf ears, and you have a critical error right from the beginning that impacts everything else you say.It seems your problem is that you're basing your argument on the extremes, assuming the highest values will be rolled.&nbsp; Either you don't understand how math works, or you're being disingenuous in your analysis.&nbsp; For one, needing a 10 on a d20 (50%) as opposed to an 11 on a d20 (55%) is not a 10% difference, so I highly suspect it's the first of those two reasons.&nbsp; And a 5% difference is not something that a result would be &quot;heavily dependent on&quot;.When you're using analysis, you need to look at the average likelyhood of the result, and not cherry pick the highest possible result.&nbsp; Especially when you're ignoring the lowest possible result.&nbsp; That's just plain disingenuous methodology.&nbsp; For example, if you include a PC that has the likelyhood of getting an 18, you also have the likelyhood of getting something like a 5 or 6--lower than you'd ever have with an array.The rest of your post is also filled with similar errors, but there's really no point in creating a huge block of text, is there?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 6413768, member: 15700"] I'm not going to reply with a giant wall of text because it would probably fall on deaf ears, and you have a critical error right from the beginning that impacts everything else you say. It seems your problem is that you're basing your argument on the extremes, assuming the highest values will be rolled. Either you don't understand how math works, or you're being disingenuous in your analysis. For one, needing a 10 on a d20 (50%) as opposed to an 11 on a d20 (55%) is not a 10% difference, so I highly suspect it's the first of those two reasons. And a 5% difference is not something that a result would be "heavily dependent on". When you're using analysis, you need to look at the average likelyhood of the result, and not cherry pick the highest possible result. Especially when you're ignoring the lowest possible result. That's just plain disingenuous methodology. For example, if you include a PC that has the likelyhood of getting an 18, you also have the likelyhood of getting something like a 5 or 6--lower than you'd ever have with an array. The rest of your post is also filled with similar errors, but there's really no point in creating a huge block of text, is there? [/QUOTE]

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