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Fudging a Fudge Dice Roll.

Posted by jait
jait
member, 308 posts
Sat 14 Jun 2014
at 22:59
  • msg #1

Fudging a Fudge Dice Roll

I attempted to fudge a Fudge roll today... with the following interesting results:

I was rolling 4 Fudge dice.  I wanted four failures. I got the following results:

Fudge (rig) or skew the rolls:  -2 -2 -2 -2
Error:
Please correct the following errors:
Skewed rolls for the Fudge system rolls are between -2 and 2, inclusive (2 is then subtracted from each roll).



Fudge (rig) or skew the rolls: 0 0 0 0
Error:
Please correct the following errors:
Rigged rolls for the Fudge system rolls are between 1 and 3, inclusive (2 is then subtracted from each roll).


Fudge (rig) or skew the rolls: 1 1 1 1
Success!
This message was last edited by the user at 01:02, Sun 15 June 2014.
jase
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Sun 15 Jun 2014
at 02:23

Re: Fudging a Fudge Dice Roll

Ok, I'll break this down:

The first one, "-2", is a skew of the dice.  Skewed dice rolls are any prefixed with a positive or negative symbol.  For a dice system where dice are normally between x and y, when you skew it's then either between x+skew to y (for positive numbers) or x to y-skew (for negative numbers).

What you were trying to do here is basically force the results to be between -1 and -1.

The amount you entered should have been accepted, so I've hacked that in quickly.


The second one, "0", is a rig/fudge of the roll.  This is what you want the roll to be.  As we can't have "-1" otherwise it'll think it's a skew of the roll, you have to (as it says) enter in a number between 1 and 3.  2 is then subtracted from the roll.  Putting in "1" results in "-1", "2" in a "0", and "3" in a "1".  You've changed from a skew of the dice to a rig.  The information here is correct.


Not much you say here, you should have seen a result of "-1 -1 -1 -1".
icosahedron152
member, 276 posts
Sun 15 Jun 2014
at 04:17
  • msg #3

Re: Fudging a Fudge Dice Roll

Not sure if I'm understanding the question or the answer properly, but I've found that if I want to fudge a roll, I have to enter the desired 'imaginary dice' result, not the 'final' result.

eg. if I'm trying to roll 1D6-3 and I want a result of -2, I need to enter 1 as my fudge (the number I'm looking for if I actually rolled a real 1D6 on the table). The roller then subtracts 3 from that and gives me the desired result of -2.

I suspect if I tried to enter -2 in the fudge line it would reject it because it's trying to roll -2 on 1D6 and then subtract 3 from that, and you can't roll a value of -2 on 1D6.
jase
admin, 3356 posts
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Sun 15 Jun 2014
at 04:21

Re: Fudging a Fudge Dice Roll

In reply to icosahedron152 (msg # 3):

Fudging is entering in what you want the dice to roll, not what you want the result to be.  (With the Fudge system, results are really 1d3-2, so your fudge amounts are what you want the d3 to be.)

+/- rolls, as I mentioned, are skewed results, which affect the range of the rolls, but don't fix the actual roll.
jait
member, 309 posts
Sun 15 Jun 2014
at 05:16
  • msg #5

Re: Fudging a Fudge Dice Roll

Thank-you.  I get it now.
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