Elite Infantry

[Dr DeAth]

Ooh, hark at her 

You are of course correct (although anyone who plays Settlers of Catan can tell you 6 and 8 come up more than 7). Does it not become a bell curve when there are numerous available modifiers, some of which are more common than others? Or is it still flat?

It's always flat on a single die, you have to add the results of two or more dice to get a bell curve as it is a graphical plot of all the possible outcomes.

Re the Settlers of Catan thing:

On an unmodified 2d6 roll:

Probability of 7 = 6 in 36
Probability of 6 = 5 in 36
Probability of 8 = 5 in 36

so there's a 10 in 36 chance of rolling a 6 OR 8 (5/36+5/36) and only a 6 in 36 chance of rolling a 7, so statistically in a single roll of 2d6 you're more likely to get a '6 or 8' result than a '7'. 

Don't you just love dice and probability 

[Dewbakuk]

Ah but I can play settlers on my phone and it tracks the dice results, I have never yet seen a game where the 7 has come up more often than either the 6 or the 8.

We are getting a little off topic here though 

[Dr DeAth]

Ah but I can play settlers on my phone and it tracks the dice results, I have never yet seen a game where the 7 has come up more often than either the 6 or the 8.

We are getting a little off topic here though 

Well it may be that your phone is using a Pseudorandom Number algorithm rather than a True Random Number algorithm, the latter of which is harder to implement and not really necessary for a game - I get a similar problem with Risk on my iPad.

You're right, we are getting off topic - I'll stop now and let someone put it back on topic.

[Dewbakuk]

In fairness I think the topic has been resolved anyway