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<blockquote data-quote="ichabod" data-source="post: 9191077" data-attributes="member: 1257">You seem to think that if someone gets a reroll, they get a better chance of getting a high roll. That is not the case. Your odds of getting a high roll do not change if you get a reroll. If two people roll, and one of them gets a reroll, they still both have the same probability of getting a high roll. In fact, the guy who got the reroll has the same probability of ending up with the lower result as the guy who didn't get the reroll. There is no extra chance to get a high roll. Everyone has one chance to get a high roll: their first valid roll. The fact that someone can make an invalid roll doesn't change the fact that each person only gets one valid roll, which only gives them one chance at getting a high roll.Say you have two options: option A is to roll 1d6, but you get to reroll 1's and 2's. Option B is to roll 1d4+2. You seem to think option A would be unfair because there are rerolls. But the two options are exactly the same. They give the exact same probabilities. This is a mathematical fact.Well, I'm sorry, but you are coming here and telling people they are being unfair when they are not. You are telling me that I have been unfair when I haven't. Expect to have to defend that statement. Especially when you are misrepresenting probabilities to make that statement.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ichabod, post: 9191077, member: 1257"] You seem to think that if someone gets a reroll, they get a better chance of getting a high roll. That is not the case. Your odds of getting a high roll do not change if you get a reroll. If two people roll, and one of them gets a reroll, they still both have the same probability of getting a high roll. In fact, the guy who got the reroll has the same probability of ending up with the lower result as the guy who didn't get the reroll. There is no extra chance to get a high roll. Everyone has one chance to get a high roll: their first valid roll. The fact that someone can make an invalid roll doesn't change the fact that each person only gets one valid roll, which only gives them one chance at getting a high roll. Say you have two options: option A is to roll 1d6, but you get to reroll 1's and 2's. Option B is to roll 1d4+2. You seem to think option A would be unfair because there are rerolls. But the two options are exactly the same. They give the exact same probabilities. This is a mathematical fact. Well, I'm sorry, but you are coming here and telling people they are being unfair when they are not. You are telling me that I have been unfair when I haven't. Expect to have to defend that statement. Especially when you are misrepresenting probabilities to make that statement. [/QUOTE]

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