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Re: Net.rpg: How many of you have seen Ars Magica?

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From: Charles F Fitzgerald
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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Subject: Re: Net.rpg: How many of you have seen Ars Magica?
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