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<blockquote data-quote="Ricochet" data-source="post: 6699563" data-attributes="member: 2024">Yes very true. Yet many rolling d10 (or even d8) opts to stop at a 4 because the fear of getting something lower plays in too, and statistics are still just statistics. There is no guarentee of a better outcome even if the odds are in favor of it.I'd argue that the fighter rolling a 5 in your example would have an anguished decision to make, however: if he rolls again to hit his goal of getting to the usual average or more, and rolled a 1,2,3,4 ,he is stuck with that roll. Rolling another 5 has him stuck with that. In any case, there is an interesting psychological approach to it, and my players (and myself) aren't too engrossed by statistics and logic to simply overlook it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ricochet, post: 6699563, member: 2024"] Yes very true. Yet many rolling d10 (or even d8) opts to stop at a 4 because the fear of getting something lower plays in too, and statistics are still just statistics. There is no guarentee of a better outcome even if the odds are in favor of it. I'd argue that the fighter rolling a 5 in your example [I]would [/I]have an anguished decision to make, however: if he rolls again to hit his goal of getting to the usual average or more, and rolled a 1,2,3,4 ,he is stuck with that roll. Rolling another 5 has him stuck with that. In any case, there is an interesting psychological approach to it, and my players (and myself) aren't too engrossed by statistics and logic to simply overlook it. :) [/QUOTE]

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