I received my copy of Blades in the Dark. Curious about the probabilities, I wrote up a ruby script to generate the dice pool results from 0 dice to 6d6.
I’ve tabularized the output for easier reading.
| Pool Size | Critical | Success | Compromised | Failure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0% | 3% | 22% | 75% |
| 1 | 0% | 17% | 33% | 50% |
| 2 | 3% | 28% | 44% | 25% |
| 3 | 7% | 35% | 45% | 13% |
| 4 | 13% | 39% | 42% | 6% |
| 5 | 20% | 40% | 37% | 3% |
| 6 | 26% | 40% | 32% | 2% |
For those that prefer a graphical representation:
Or if you prefer a FASERIP style chart
0 Dice
1 Die
2 Dice
3 Dice
4 Dice
5 Dice
6 Dice
Nice tables. Thanks.
I never did complete a statistics course, so when I made my attempt to figure out the same probabilities, my numbers were off. What formulas did you use to determine your percentages?
I wrote some Ruby scripts that iterated through all of the possible dice results.