Has Wand Crafting Changed?
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Has Wand Crafting Changed?
Just out of curiosity, has wand crafting changed at all? I used to average about 34 charges, but lately, my characters has been making things in the low twenties. Three 22's in a row and that really upset a customer.
Someone told me that it was d20+level. If that's true, I rolled three ones in a row and then rolled 3 incredibly low numbers. Seems uh. . . quite unlikely.
Someone told me that it was d20+level. If that's true, I rolled three ones in a row and then rolled 3 incredibly low numbers. Seems uh. . . quite unlikely.
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Re: Has Wand Crafting Changed?
"A newly created wand has 1d20 + 1 charge per level of the character caster (up to a maximum of 50 charges)."
So in essence, the server really hated you in that time period. Statisticaly, that was a 1/8000 chance
So in essence, the server really hated you in that time period. Statisticaly, that was a 1/8000 chance
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Re: Has Wand Crafting Changed?
So uh. . . maybe I should feel lucky?Barradoor wrote:"A newly created wand has 1d20 + 1 charge per level of the character caster (up to a maximum of 50 charges)."
So in essence, the server really hated you in that time period. Statisticaly, that was a 1/8000 chance
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Re: Has Wand Crafting Changed?
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Re: Has Wand Crafting Changed?
If NWN's RNG was actually R, it would be a 1/8000 chance. But that's the thing about random number generators: they aren't. NWN's is particularly crappy. Numbers falling in streaks and improbably high numbers of failures are substantially more common than they should be.
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Re: Has Wand Crafting Changed?
Actually, repeats are surprisingly common even with mechanical random number generators (IE: Dice.) - it's one of those odd things I learned in Statistics; my professor could tell when a student was fudging the numbers because they never had any repeats, a haphazard spread isn't what commonly occurs. It's also not less likely that you'll roll a repeat - you have the same chance of rolling that number again as you did the first time you rolled it (if that makes sense.)
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Re: Has Wand Crafting Changed?
That's why I said "more common than they should be." And 2 doesn't count as a streak.
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