I thought the sum of several dice rolls was a Gaussian distribution to start with. What more do you need just roll say 10 dice and then pick a threshold value?
Exactly. 3d6 is already pretty close, and it just gets closer and closer to the gaussian as you increase the number of dice. And it's bounded, too, so you get minimum and maximum values.
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I thought the sum of several dice rolls was a Gaussian distribution to start with. What more do you need just roll say 10 dice and then pick a threshold value?
Exactly. 3d6 is already pretty close, and it just gets closer and closer to the gaussian as you increase the number of dice. And it's bounded, too, so you get minimum and maximum values.