Utsukushi:
Sometimes it's important to know what order they happened in, like if you need to know how many times you tried something before succeeding (or failing).
If there are a lot of cases where people would want them sorted, then we'd need a new option for that, instead.
Yup. This is entirely correct. Order of results does sometimes take on some importance in certain situations. That gives rise to a question: does the dice roller cast dice strictly in the order selected?
That is: does [dice=1d4,1d6,1d8,1d10,1d12,record=yes] always evaluate in the stated order? My earlier experiments with the dice roller would suggest this is, in fact, the case.
Perhaps more interestingly, would [dice=8d10,record=yes] display unsorted or sorted results? My experiments in this respect are so far not conclusive, but it appears they are unsorted, and occur one after the other in order rolled.
Drifting just a bit, I wonder what the deviation between the middle die and the arithmetic mean of all dice would be? I'll have to noodle on this some, I guess.
Praguepride, let me see if I've got the tentative specs right: the dice pool is a subset of three dice selected from the set {1d4, 1d6, 1d8, 1d10, 1d12}. How are these three selected (rules-wise), or does that matter?
Finding the mid value of any subset of three dice is a near-trivial "by inspection" operation, but I understand the desire to have the dice roller do the lifting. (I won't go so far as to say "heavy lifting" here...)
It seems, from reading the original post, that other permutations of results need to be selectable for display from any given roll of three dice. I guess selection of dice and permutation desired would all be situation- and system-dependent?
The only question that remains to be settled would seem to be how to get the dice roller to display the intermediate result, i.e. how to get it to drop both the low and the high result?
One last question: what happens when two dice, say the d6 and the d4, roll the same values? The result here would depend on what the third die showed, maybe?
I gotta get downrange just now, but I will look at this more when I have time this evening.
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