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<blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8096568" data-attributes="member: 27780"><p><strong><u>Polyhedron Issue 33: Nov/Dec 1986</u></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>part 5/5</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The d6: Expanding the Power of the Cube: A curious little half-pager that shows you how to approximate the probabilities of other dice when you only have D6's. It'll take up to 5d6 rolls, but you can get weighted results that are accurate to within less than 1% if you follow these formulae. Interesting bit of maths, and I applaud the effort that went into working this out, but not hugely useful these days, as you'd not only need to be without dice, but also without electricity or internet to be lacking randomisers these days. (and with electronic dice rollers you can roll arbitrary combinations of xdx and even have the computer add them up automatically, removing one of the big causes of slowdown in high level play) No objection to them putting this in the newszine, but I sincerely hope I'm never in a position where I need to use it. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Convention Judge Appeal: As they said earlier, they don't have enough judges per player for all the tournaments they want to run this year. So here they put in a form so they can create a proper database of GM's, what games they can run, and when they're available. Hopefully that'll make getting on top of their logistic problems a little easier, as they'll be able to prepare further in advance, and if they have a last minute dropout, they can call anyone who lives in the area, say "You want a free ticket if you can run some tournament rounds?" and hopefully get the numbers balanced again. Fingers crossed there's enough motivated members out there to get things running smoothly.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Convention Announcements: Nana nana nana nana Batcon! That's a name that stands out against all the other announcements here. Hope they don't get hit by the Warner Bros lawyers. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, it definitely looks like Polyhedron is taking the shakeups in the company harder than Dragon did, as their smaller staff is more vulnerable to any disruptions. Since Dragon suffered all through the next year before finding it's feet again in 1988 as they finalised their new direction for 2e, I'm guessing the next year is going to be pretty rough in here. Let's get through it and find out what ways things can go wrong travelling by this route.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="(un)reason, post: 8096568, member: 27780"] [b][u]Polyhedron Issue 33: Nov/Dec 1986[/u][/b] part 5/5 The d6: Expanding the Power of the Cube: A curious little half-pager that shows you how to approximate the probabilities of other dice when you only have D6's. It'll take up to 5d6 rolls, but you can get weighted results that are accurate to within less than 1% if you follow these formulae. Interesting bit of maths, and I applaud the effort that went into working this out, but not hugely useful these days, as you'd not only need to be without dice, but also without electricity or internet to be lacking randomisers these days. (and with electronic dice rollers you can roll arbitrary combinations of xdx and even have the computer add them up automatically, removing one of the big causes of slowdown in high level play) No objection to them putting this in the newszine, but I sincerely hope I'm never in a position where I need to use it. Convention Judge Appeal: As they said earlier, they don't have enough judges per player for all the tournaments they want to run this year. So here they put in a form so they can create a proper database of GM's, what games they can run, and when they're available. Hopefully that'll make getting on top of their logistic problems a little easier, as they'll be able to prepare further in advance, and if they have a last minute dropout, they can call anyone who lives in the area, say "You want a free ticket if you can run some tournament rounds?" and hopefully get the numbers balanced again. Fingers crossed there's enough motivated members out there to get things running smoothly. Convention Announcements: Nana nana nana nana Batcon! That's a name that stands out against all the other announcements here. Hope they don't get hit by the Warner Bros lawyers. Well, it definitely looks like Polyhedron is taking the shakeups in the company harder than Dragon did, as their smaller staff is more vulnerable to any disruptions. Since Dragon suffered all through the next year before finding it's feet again in 1988 as they finalised their new direction for 2e, I'm guessing the next year is going to be pretty rough in here. Let's get through it and find out what ways things can go wrong travelling by this route. [/QUOTE]
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