| Mon Apr 27 23:29:57 2015 by Rebel Scum |
| I was surprised not to see this mentioned on your site or under the list of frequently used die rolls; so if it is already somewhere else my apologies. In the Star Wars (D6) system, the main mechanic is as follow: You roll X number of 6 sided dice and sum them, one of those dice is predesignated the "wild" die. If that die rolls a six you re-roll it (after adding the 6). The wild die can explode an infinite amount of times, adding 6 each time. If the wild die rolls a 1 then you do not add that 1 to the die pool sum; and you ALSO do not add the highest die of the remaining pool of dice either (failing on the wild die cancels your highest non-wild die roll) Is there a simple expression that will handle the highs and lows of the wild die for a pool of X dice? (1 die pool is only the wild die) I havent been able to get it working |
| Mon Apr 27 23:50:05 2015 by Rebel Scum |
| I was surprised not to see this mentioned on your site or under the list of frequently used die rolls; so if it is already somewhere else my apologies. In the Star Wars (D6) system, the main mechanic is as follow: You roll X number of 6 sided dice and sum them, one of those dice is predesignated the "wild" die. If that die rolls a six you re-roll it (after adding the 6). The wild die can explode an infinite amount of times, adding 6 each time. If the wild die rolls a 1 then you do not add that 1 to the die pool sum; and you ALSO do not add the highest die of the remaining pool of dice either (failing on the wild die cancels your highest non-wild die roll) Is there a simple expression that will handle the highs and lows of the wild die for a pool of X dice? (1 die pool is only the wild die) I havent been able to get it working |
| Tue Apr 28 09:47:41 2015 by Torben |
Giving the complexity of the mechanism, it is not a trivially simple expression in Troll. But you can do it like this:pool := 3d6; \ change for different pool sizeIt should be fairly easy to see what happens above. |