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Old 08-07-2020, 07:48 PM   #2
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Default Re: Formulas for speeding up repetitive rolls

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Originally Posted by lachimba View Post
Does anyone have any formulas for speeding up repetitive rolls?

For example:

A PC is badly injured (negative HP, but in hospital care for a month) rather than rolling perhaps 30 times I can roll maybe three times?
For that many rolls I'd just take the expected number of successes, based on the table on B171. The variability on 30 rolls is pretty small.

For say only a dozen, maybe roll three and take the expectede result for the rest if you want some variation?
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