What are the odds?
Back in the early days, we didn’t have no internet. Cons, clubs, and written material was all we had to communicate with between individuals and groups of game players. Every month we’d all wait for the Dragon to show up at the Hobby Store or our mailbox.
Ed sent me a pdf of a Dragon Magazine from 1980 today and I had to post this Gem…
From the July,1980 issue of The Dragon Magazine
What are the odds? By William Keely
In the last three years I have had approximately 220 characters in D&D. Never once have I rolled one with 18 Strength. I have always thought this odd until I did a little mathematics. These charts are what I came up with. Column A tells you what your chances are of getting that score or lower and the percentage of the populace with that score or lower. Column B tells you what your chances are of getting that score or higher and the percentage of the populace with that score or higher. Column C tells you the average number of times you will roll each number out of 216 rolls. Column D is the percentage chance of rolling each score.
-Russ