From D&D to Savage Worlds: What am I missing?

[Votan]

That's unsettling...I've personally been in a group of level 1's that subdued a black dragon at 1st level in a basic game (waaaaay back at the start of the 80's), but could you elaborate on the Balor's defeat - was it luck or manipulating the system?

Yeah, I am kinda of curious myself. It is hard to see how a first level party (unless there is an element missing) broke the 15 DR or the spell resistance, nor how they achieved tactical surprise (true seeing, te) or handled something that could fly, teleport and kill the party with a standard action (Blasphemy is instant death at these levels).

 

[Jan van Leyden]

Ok, well I don't want to go spewing a lot of comments, just because it's been a long time and I don't want to misstate. I remember noticing the exploding dice rolls and becoming curious how that would work out with some of the more common TNs. I figured out that for many routine tasks, d4s were better than d6s. Uh, here's some math someone else did:

Uhm, this graphs show that the probability to get a result of exactly 6 is higher for an exploding d4 than for a d6. As a player you'd be interested of getting at least a 6 - and for this experiment the d6 is the better solution.

 

[pawsplay]

Uhm, this graphs show that the probability to get a result of exactly 6 is higher for an exploding d4 than for a d6. As a player you'd be interested of getting at least a 6 - and for this experiment the d6 is the better solution.

You are reading the graph incorrectly. The probably is higher for the d4.