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<blockquote data-quote="ValhallaGH" data-source="post: 5440813" data-attributes="member: 41187">Not to get too far gone, since you don't seem to be wanting to continue it, but people often make a mistake when looking at acing dice-they think it is a gigantic boost to small dice, making a d4 the best die type.&nbsp; It ain't.Acing adds about .6 to the average result of any given die type.&nbsp; The actual increase in average roll is greater for smaller dice (~0.88 for d4, ~0.69 for d6, ~0.64 for d8, ~0.61 for d10, ~0.59 for d12), but the effect is that a d4 averages 3 and a d12 averages 7.&nbsp; Example:&nbsp; TN 10.A d4 aces twice and rolls a 2+.&nbsp; Total 10+.&nbsp; Odds ~5%.A d12 rolls once and rolls a 10+.&nbsp; Odds 25%.For Wild Cards (like the PCs) d4 has ~12% success (and ~4% critical failure), and d12 has ~31% success (and ~1% critical failure).Bigger dice get better results, and roll fewer 1's (which can be significant when there are consequences for getting a 1 on the Trait die).Factor in the dice-control option (bennies spent to reroll bad die results), and large dice are almost never overcome by small dice.&nbsp; And the exceptions are appropriately memorable.Note that this it true for every game with exploding dice.&nbsp; The change in frequency only matters if you use a threshold-success system, like Shadowrun 4th or World of Darkness.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ValhallaGH, post: 5440813, member: 41187"] Not to get too far gone, since you don't seem to be wanting to continue it, but people often make a mistake when looking at acing dice-they think it is a gigantic boost to small dice, making a d4 the best die type. It ain't. Acing adds about .6 to the average result of any given die type. The actual increase in average roll is greater for smaller dice (~0.88 for d4, ~0.69 for d6, ~0.64 for d8, ~0.61 for d10, ~0.59 for d12), but the effect is that a d4 averages 3 and a d12 averages 7. Example: TN 10. A d4 aces twice and rolls a 2+. Total 10+. Odds ~5%. A d12 rolls once and rolls a 10+. Odds 25%. For Wild Cards (like the PCs) d4 has ~12% success (and ~4% critical failure), and d12 has ~31% success (and ~1% critical failure). Bigger dice get better results, and roll fewer 1's (which can be significant when there are consequences for getting a 1 on the Trait die). Factor in the dice-control option (bennies spent to reroll bad die results), and large dice are almost never overcome by small dice. And the exceptions are appropriately memorable. Note that this it true for every game with exploding dice. The change in frequency only matters if you use a threshold-success system, like Shadowrun 4th or World of Darkness. [/QUOTE]

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