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Originally Posted by chaosvoyager
Unrelated, I noticed the review said that the difference between the yin/yang dice was calculated by subtracting the greater from the lesser. Yet the exact same results can be had by simply taking the lesser as the result.
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That's not true. In the first place, the highest result you can get when you subtract one from the other is less than the highest result you can get just by taking the lowest. (Granted, in this particular case that doesn't matter since doubles give a special outcome, but it does show that the possible results are different.) Even if you take the lower die minus one, you still get a different distribution of results. I wrote down all the possible rolls on 2d6, then worked out the result of taking the difference versus taking the lower minus one. (Yes, I know Qin uses d10s, but the same principles hold regardless of the die size.) Here's the distribution - the first column shows the possible results, the second and third show the number of times they came up:
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Roll Diff. Low-1
0 6 11
1 10 9
2 8 7
3 6 5
4 4 3
5 2 1
(Forgive me if this has already been addressed in the other tread that Sammael mentioned; I don't usually visit the Open forums, and he didn't provide a link.)
Wyvern