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03-20-2007, 05:28 PM

Zeke

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Wait a minute. 2d4 is two separate d4s? It's not "roll a d4 and double it"? Crap, that changes everything!

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Originally Posted by Sa'ar Chasm

Now tell me where I'm wrong.

You're not. Averages (a.k.a. expected value) are exactly the way to answer a question like this. But I found a particularly nice way to get why it works (the way I thought originally), and that's what I'll be posting later.

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