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% |
Graphical representation of above table
FASERIP style chart
0 Dice Probability
1 Die Probability
2 Dice Probability
3 Dice Probability
4 Dice Probability
5 Dice Probability
6 Dice Probability
update: Checkout Probabilities of 2d6 Compared to d6 Dice Pools – Troy Press for additional comparisons between Blades in the Dark and the “traditional” 2d6 Powered by the Apocalypse 🔍 game.