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<blockquote data-quote="Yunru" data-source="post: 7046233" data-attributes="member: 6780961"><p>The Favoured - Deficient System is a method of rolling stats in order that can be applied to any process that involves only dice of the same size.</p><p></p><p>To start with, choose up to half (rounded down) of your stats to be your Favoured Stats. These are the stats that your character focuses on in his day-to-day life. For example, a character with Strength and Constitution for his or her favoured stats might often find themselves in fights.</p><p></p><p>Next choose an equal number of stats to be your deficits. For one reason or another either these don't come easy to you, or your character simply doesn't focus on them.</p><p></p><p>For your favoured stats, you gain an additional die, but lose the lowest.</p><p></p><p>For your deficient stats, you lose a die, unless that would put you below your end number of dice, in which case you roll an additional die and then remove the highest result. (For instance, 4d6, drop the lowest would become just 3d6, whereas 3d6 can't go lower, so it becomes 4d6 drop the highest).</p><p></p><p>Thoughts?</p><p></p><p>EDIT: Now with Anydice links!</p><p>I recommend viewing them as either "at least" or "at most" graphs, as that shows you where the average lies.</p><p></p><p>For 3d6: <a href="http://anydice.com/program/af56" target="_blank">http://anydice.com/program/af56</a></p><p>For 4d6, drop lowest: <a href="http://anydice.com/program/462" target="_blank">http://anydice.com/program/462</a></p><p></p><p>EDIT 2: For those who don't want to anydice, here's the outputs (maximum and minimum remain unchanged so I'm excluding them):</p><p></p><p>[TABLE="class: grid, width: 100%, align: left"]</p><p>[TR]</p><p>[TD]<strong>3d6</strong></p><p>[/TD]</p><p>[TD]<strong>Favoured</strong>[/TD]</p><p>[TD]<strong>Normal</strong>[/TD]</p><p>[TD]<strong>Deficient</strong>[/TD]</p><p>[/TR]</p><p>[TR]</p><p>[TD]Mean[/TD]</p><p>[TD]+ ~1.74 (12.244598765428275)[/TD]</p><p>[TD]Control (10.500000000004832)[/TD]</p><p>[TD]- ~1.75 (8.755401234562946)[/TD]</p><p>[/TR]</p><p>[TR]</p><p>[TD]Deviation[/TD]</p><p>[TD]- ~0.11 (2.84684444531159)[/TD]</p><p>[TD]Control (2.9580398915501926)[/TD]</p><p>[TD]- ~0.11 (2.84684444531159)[/TD]</p><p>[/TR]</p><p>[TR]</p><p>[TD]<strong>4d6, Drop lowest</strong>[/TD]</p><p>[TD]<strong>Favoured</strong>[/TD]</p><p>[TD]<strong>Normal</strong>[/TD]</p><p>[TD]<strong>Deficient</strong>[/TD]</p><p>[/TR]</p><p>[TR]</p><p>[TD]Mean[/TD]</p><p>[TD]+ ~1.19 (13.430169753077793)[/TD]</p><p>[TD]Control (12.244598765428275)[/TD]</p><p>[TD]- ~1.74 (10.500000000004832)[/TD]</p><p>[/TR]</p><p>[TR]</p><p>[TD]Diviation[/TD]</p><p>[TD]- ~0.25 (2.6034679846916866)[/TD]</p><p>[TD]Control (2.84684444531159)[/TD]</p><p>[TD]+ ~0.11 (2.9580398915501926)[/TD]</p><p>[/TR]</p><p>[/TABLE]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yunru, post: 7046233, member: 6780961"] The Favoured - Deficient System is a method of rolling stats in order that can be applied to any process that involves only dice of the same size. To start with, choose up to half (rounded down) of your stats to be your Favoured Stats. These are the stats that your character focuses on in his day-to-day life. For example, a character with Strength and Constitution for his or her favoured stats might often find themselves in fights. Next choose an equal number of stats to be your deficits. For one reason or another either these don't come easy to you, or your character simply doesn't focus on them. For your favoured stats, you gain an additional die, but lose the lowest. For your deficient stats, you lose a die, unless that would put you below your end number of dice, in which case you roll an additional die and then remove the highest result. (For instance, 4d6, drop the lowest would become just 3d6, whereas 3d6 can't go lower, so it becomes 4d6 drop the highest). Thoughts? EDIT: Now with Anydice links! I recommend viewing them as either "at least" or "at most" graphs, as that shows you where the average lies. For 3d6: [URL]http://anydice.com/program/af56[/URL] For 4d6, drop lowest: [URL]http://anydice.com/program/462[/URL] EDIT 2: For those who don't want to anydice, here's the outputs (maximum and minimum remain unchanged so I'm excluding them): [TABLE="class: grid, width: 100%, align: left"] [TR] [TD][b]3d6[/b] [/TD] [TD][b]Favoured[/b][/TD] [TD][b]Normal[/b][/TD] [TD][b]Deficient[/b][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Mean[/TD] [TD]+ ~1.74 (12.244598765428275)[/TD] [TD]Control (10.500000000004832)[/TD] [TD]- ~1.75 (8.755401234562946)[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Deviation[/TD] [TD]- ~0.11 (2.84684444531159)[/TD] [TD]Control (2.9580398915501926)[/TD] [TD]- ~0.11 (2.84684444531159)[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][b]4d6, Drop lowest[/b][/TD] [TD][b]Favoured[/b][/TD] [TD][b]Normal[/b][/TD] [TD][b]Deficient[/b][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Mean[/TD] [TD]+ ~1.19 (13.430169753077793)[/TD] [TD]Control (12.244598765428275)[/TD] [TD]- ~1.74 (10.500000000004832)[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Diviation[/TD] [TD]- ~0.25 (2.6034679846916866)[/TD] [TD]Control (2.84684444531159)[/TD] [TD]+ ~0.11 (2.9580398915501926)[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/QUOTE]
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