2014-07-27, 03:54 AM
Polantaris Wrote:I actually meant to ask this myself. I noticed a lot of roles have disclaimers about using the ability on yourself. Was the a reason for this? Was any ability in particular going to do anything if you targeted yourself with it?
About the dice outcomes thing: The reason I didn't really talk about it is because they seemed pretty straight forward. Interesting mechanic, but really random. Thanks for revealing the info by the way.
It's almost 4 AM so I'm not quite sure why I'm answering this instead of sleeping, but in Kyrastri's case, a self-target would work as intended. I'm struggling to think of where else I advised that right now, but generally it was because it'd backfire in a way that would have been mean/unfun if I had just let them go ahead with. I mean, most of the rolls do something bad to either person, and rolling a 2 against yourself would waste an entire day of voting.
The thing about the dice that I'm surprised no one seemed to think about (and I stupidly forgot to specifically mention in that notes post) was how rolling a pair of dice actually works probability wise. It's not just an equally random number between 2 and 12 (and though I wasn't using real dice, the app I used (which I linked earlier in the discussion thread) simulated both dice and not just the sum). The further you go in either direction from 7, the less likely it is to be that number, but with equal probability to the other direction. That's why everything except the ends is basically the same action, just done to either Kyrastri or the target depending on whether it's higher or lower.