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<blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 6871684" data-attributes="member: 6795602"><p>It is impossible to ever get an outcome of 1 when you roll a d6 and always reroll on 1's. Sure a 1 can appear on some intermediate step but that doesn't mean you rolled a 1 as far as the final outcome goes. Such a reroll rule changes the expected average and the distribution to essentially be the same as rolling a dice with 2,3,4,5,6 as its faces.</p><p></p><p>The same principle applies to anytime rerolls are allowed to be part of the process. Anything in the rerollable pool is essentially not counted because it will never actually be a final outcome. This changes the probability distribution for all ultimate outcomes. Rolling perfect stats under such a method is demonstratively more likely with rerolls of any set of non perfect stat combinations allowed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FrogReaver, post: 6871684, member: 6795602"] It is impossible to ever get an outcome of 1 when you roll a d6 and always reroll on 1's. Sure a 1 can appear on some intermediate step but that doesn't mean you rolled a 1 as far as the final outcome goes. Such a reroll rule changes the expected average and the distribution to essentially be the same as rolling a dice with 2,3,4,5,6 as its faces. The same principle applies to anytime rerolls are allowed to be part of the process. Anything in the rerollable pool is essentially not counted because it will never actually be a final outcome. This changes the probability distribution for all ultimate outcomes. Rolling perfect stats under such a method is demonstratively more likely with rerolls of any set of non perfect stat combinations allowed. [/QUOTE]
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