From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:25:20 -0400
Subject: FMA odds
Here are odds for FMA--I'll also post this to my website somewhere in the next week (plus how to calculate odds and some examples). Probablities are for attacker die (column) beating defender die (row). The "sum across" and "sum down" are there to rank the dice--for you'll see that attacking with 2d4 is not quite as good as d10, but on the defense they're nearly identical. Of course, if you never face 2d4, or d12, or whatever, your own totals might change the rank order. A (col) > D (row) d4 d6 d8 2d4 d10 d12 sum across d4 0.375 0.583 0.688 0.844 0.750 0.792 4.031 d6 0.250 0.417 0.563 0.656 0.650 0.708 3.244 d8 0.188 0.313 0.438 0.500 0.550 0.625 2.613 2d4 0.063 0.208 0.375 0.414 0.500 0.583 2.143 d10 0.150 0.250 0.350 0.400 0.450 0.542 2.142 d12 0.125 0.208 0.292 0.333 0.375 0.458 1.792 2d6 0.028 0.093 0.194 0.201 0.311 0.417 1.244 sum 1.150 1.979 2.704 3.147 3.275 3.708