Dice Roller giving out a lot of "1"'s on 1d20s

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Jul 28, 2016 8:50 pm
Hi There, not sure if there have been other people that mentioned this, mostly because I wasn't sure how to search the bugs forum, but my game has been seeing a lot of "1" rolls on 1d20's in posts. It may not be an inordinate amount of them, but it seems to be more than there statistically should be. Can you please investigate?

Game link: http://gamersplane.com/games/232

Play Forums: http://gamersplane.com/forums/571/
Jul 28, 2016 8:54 pm
I'll be honest, it doesn't appear to be broken, even in the game you've linked. I can only speak from personal experience, but the dice rolls I've seen in my games seem to run the gamut of results.
Jul 28, 2016 8:58 pm
True, it may be that it just seems that way. We will soldier on then! I am just beginning to run out of GM intrusions!
Jul 28, 2016 8:59 pm
It may be a bad string of luck, but the roller uses mtrand, a PHP function that is supposed to be a better randomizer than previous functions. Essentially, I get a random number between 0 and 1 and use that to get a random number between 1 and the size of the die. If there are an inordinate number of poor rolls, it's unfortunately just bad luck :/ If anyone has suggestions on better randomizers with PHP, I'm game to try them out!
Jul 28, 2016 9:00 pm
It is probably just bad luck, then. Luckily its a Cypher System game where the players do all the rolling!
Jul 28, 2016 9:28 pm
zatatmando says:
It is probably just bad luck, then. Luckily its a Cypher System game where the players do all the rolling!
I see what you did there.

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