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Article #873Re: Net.rpg: How many of you have seen Ars Magica?
From: Charles F Fitzgerald
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 02:42
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 02:42
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Jim Scannell writes,
...THe progression is
somewhat logarithmic since +5 is considered a
"mythic characteristic."
This is not the first time I have heard of a distribution
being referred to as "logarithmic" in this newsgroup, and
it confuses me. Does this mean that the value approaches
a maximum or minimum value asymptotically? I was under the
impression that the logarithm of x was the integral of
x to the -1 power, a singular function due to the n+1 term
in the denominator going to zero. I do not see how this
fits any regular dice distributions, which tend to be either
linear or bell curves.
--
Charles F. Fitzgerald | '....Life's but a walking shadow,
Iowa State University | a poor player, that struts, and frets
cffitzge@iastate.edu | his hour upon the stage,
| and then is heard from no more....'
| _MacBeth_, by W. Shakespeare.
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Newsgroups: rec.games.design Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!news.iastate.edu!IASTATE.EDU!cffitzge From: cffitzge@IASTATE.EDU (Charles F Fitzgerald) Subject: Re: Net.rpg: How many of you have seen Ars Magica? Message-ID: <1992Nov22.204205@IASTATE.EDU> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: cffitzge@IASTATE.EDU (Charles F Fitzgerald) Organization: Iowa State University References: <By4zFw.DKw@acsu.buffalo.edu> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 02:42:05 GMT Lines: 21