There was a post on reddit about moderating the player vs. player randomness when rolling ability scores. There was some sentiment that if you want players to be evenly matched, don’t roll; only roll if you’re okay with some players having better abilities.

I initially agreed with that assessment, and posted some stats about the expected variability. But then I realized that it is valid to want different levels of variability, so I went through my list of ways to roll abilities, and did some simulations to try and find a range of possibilities with different variability between players. Continue reading “Player vs. Player Variability When Rolling Abilities” →