Re: [DL] Wound Penalties

["Joey Fanning(Wraith)" <wraith530@comcast.net>]

heh...my mistake.  i forgot most of my precal over the lst two years...



"79.84% of all statistics are made up on the spot"
Wraith
----- Original Message -----
From: "Clint Black" <cblack@ohtinc.com>
To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 12:10 PM
Subject: RE: [DL] Wound Penalties


>
> >the reason a bust is for MORE than half the dice is quite simple once you
> >look at it from a statistical standpoint.  let's take a look at the
chance
> >of busting with both versions..
> >half or more:
> >1d6=1 in 6.
> >2d6=2 in 6.  there is double the probability this way because either of
the
> >dice could come up as 1.
>
> Okay, the mathematician in me couldn't stand it.  The probability on 2d6
> with half or more would be 11 in 36.
>
> There, I feel better.  :)
>
>
> Clint Black
>
> "You smell that? Do you smell that? ...Ghost Rock, son. Nothing else in
the
> world smells like that. I love the smell of ghost rock in the morning. You
> know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all
over
> I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' Yank body. The
> smell, you know that sulphurous smell, the whole hill. Smelled like...
> victory. Someday this war's gonna end..."
>
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