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    Curiosity about chances of rolling......

    ....something with 3d6. I guess I am wondering if anybody has a table to show the percentages (theoretical ) of rolling each 3d6 number between 3 and 18.
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    Re: Curiosity about chances of rolling......

    Err...yeah. This one's been done ad nauseam. You might do a thread search with terms like, "probability distribution spreadsheet," or somesuch.
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    Re: Curiosity about chances of rolling......

    Here's a table I got from somewhere, long, long ago.


    3d6 Roll Probability of rolling number or less
    3 0.46 %
    4 1.85 %
    5 4.62 %
    6 9.26 %
    7 16.20 %
    8 25.93 %
    9 37.50 %
    10 50.00 %
    11 62.50 %
    12 74.07 %
    13 83.80 %
    14 90.74 %
    15 95.37 %
    16 98.15 %
    17 99.54 %
    18 100.00 %
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    Re: Curiosity about chances of rolling......

    The "Free Stuff" section of this website has an XLS spreadsheet which calculates the percentage chance of rolling any number on any total of d6s. You can find that here, under "Utilities."
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    Re: Curiosity about chances of rolling......

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