d6 probability charts

[ewookie]

check out this one:
www.tangentialcold.com/rpg/3d6_Odds.html

3d6 Dice Odds

Target	Number of	Number of Possibilities	Percent to	Percent to get
Result	Possibilities	of Target or Lower	get Target	target or lower
3	1	1	0.463%	0.463%
4	3	4	1.389%	1.852%
5	6	10	2.778%	4.630%
6	10	20	4.630%	9.259%
7	15	35	6.944%	16.204%
8	21	56	9.722%	25.926%
9	25	81	11.574%	37.500%
10	27	108	12.500%	50.000%
11	27	135	12.500%	62.500%
12	25	160	11.574%	74.074%
13	21	181	9.722%	83.796%
14	15	196	6.944%	90.741%
15	10	206	4.630%	95.370%
16	6	212	2.778%	98.148%
17	3	215	1.389%	99.537%
18	1	216	0.463%	100.000%

[sirgawain]

www.ogmiosproject.org/articles/stattables.html

This website allows you to plug in whatever you want and produce a chart in another tab to compare results.

That is all.

[chrisrice]

Such charts are interesting, but in actual play I just concentrated on a few key values for 3d6.

6=10%
8=25%
10=50%
12=75%
14=90%

These are acccurate to within a percentage point and can be easily remembered without reference to a table.

The score of 14 is also the 50% value on 4d6 which is a useful fact to memorise also.

[ewookie]

yeah, i memorize a few of them too...until i forget that's what references are for.