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<\/a><\/p>\nIt’s been a while, but I finally had time to do some light painting.\u00a0 I took the opportunity to knock a couple of things off my painting queue.\u00a0 The first was a batch of knights I got in a convention flea market.\u00a0 I have been toying with the idea of a jousting game for some time.\u00a0 I’ve played in several jousting games that have been fun, but they often get boring quickly as the number of decisions is quite small.\u00a0 So, I have some ideas that I’ve been thinking about while pushing a bunch of flab around the streets for an hour in a vain attempt at weight control.\u00a0 I’ve had some ideas for an opposed die roll dice progression mechanic that will be just right for jousting, I think.\u00a0 The problem with dice progression systems (i.e., d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, etc.) is that they break down after d12. \u00a0Each die adds .5 to the expected value. \u00a0E(d4) = 2.5. \u00a0E(d6) = 3.5. \u00a0E(d8) = 4.5. \u00a0Etc. \u00a0But when you get to rolling two dice (say, d6 + d8) instead of a uniform distribution, you get a bell curve. \u00a0Recently I’ve seen that d14, d16, and d18 are readily available. \u00a0I think a die progression mechanic with a lot of variance (4-20 instead of 4-12) is finally feasible in a way that I can live with, mathematically.<\/p>\n
Some weeks back I posted some pictures of some WWII Americans riding giant eagles and some Eureka Stukasauruses. \u00a0I traded something to Chris for his unpainted Stukasauruses. \u00a0After sitting on them for several months, I finally painted them. \u00a0I have Major Objective (the guys who custom made the Americans for my eagles) working on some Brits to ride on griffins. \u00a0I will pick them up at Fall In, so watch for a weird world war two game by Cold Wars.<\/p>\n It’s been a while, but I finally had time to do some light painting.\u00a0 I took the opportunity to knock a couple of things off my painting queue.\u00a0 The first was a batch of knights I got in a convention flea market.\u00a0 I have been toying with the idea of a jousting game … Continue reading Recent Painting Projects<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3110"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3115,"href":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions\/3115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n Share on Linkedin<\/span><\/a><\/li> Subscribe to the comments on this post<\/span><\/a><\/li> Print for later<\/span><\/a><\/li> Bookmark in Browser<\/span><\/a><\/li> Tell a friend<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul>