I've at least had some family members to do a bit of gaming with.  On the plus side, I've probably written more adventures in the past couple years than in any other time span.  We even played a couple of the shorter ones.

Ghul, if/when/whatever I do get around to doing a weighted spell selection thing...how direct should I make the tables?

Just refer to it by number in the list or by name?

Roll 2d10 for a list of 17 spells. 2d10 gives 19 possibilties with a bell curve distribution.

I suppose I could do a percentage and keep the order preserved instead...

For example, level 1 pyromancer spell list

#   %   Spell list number
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2   1    :   roll_again
3   2    :   3
4   3    :  10
5   4    :   2
6   5    :  11
7   6    :   6
8   7    :  13
9   8    :   8
10  9    :  14
11 10    :   7
12  9    :  16
13  8    :   1
14  7    :   5
15  6    :   9
16  5    :   4
17  4    :  15
18  3    :  17
19  2    :  12
20  1    :   roll_again


This website is nice to give the distributions for a variety of dice rolls.

https://anydice.com/

Last edited by gizmomathboy (5/22/2021 2:15 pm)

Sounds like a plan.

I can make available my distributions and list the spell list number from the rules (instead of the spell names). That way folks can "see my" work as well as grab it and modify it themselves.

Sure a bit of indirection but doesn't step on your IP and might be of some aid for those so inclined.

This is really just to move a step beyond BA's NPC party generation from his Encounter Tables. Good for a "I need a party of NPC stat!", but also as a rough draft.

I could even have a selection of distributions to choose from. The flat percentage (easiest to implement), whatever I cook up, and maybe even folks could submit them.