Playing Dice In The Hood

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Playing the early access release of Baldur's Gate 3 Lucky charm plant. feels like playing Dungeons & Dragons.

Search all available jobs at Software Technology Inc on Dice.com. Search salaries, skills and more. Your tech career starts here. After the shooter's turn is over, the dice are passed to the shooter's left so that the next person can have a turn. This person can choose to either take a turn rolling the dice as a shooter or can decline to roll and continue passing the dice to the left. Either way, a new shooter begins a turn, starting over at Step 1. A lot is happening under the hood. A soundscape consists of over ten tracks playing simultaneously various environmental noises and sound FX, and a continuous randomized engine of sound processing elements. Even the most complicated dice throw is one touch away while you can trust our randomly generated results, just like the real dice,.

The Baldur's Gate series has always been based on D&D, so that's not surprising. What is surprising is exactly how much the experience of playing Baldur's Gate 3 feels like sitting at a physical table with actual dice in hand.

The game takes on the role of the Player's Handbook, a dice roller, a battlemap with miniatures, and Dungeon Master all at once. Lots of games take the mechanics of a tabletop RPG like Dungeons & Dragons and moves them under the hood. Dice rolls happen in the background, and your modifiers get added automatically. Baldur's Gate 3 opens the hood for me to see those dice rolls as they happen.

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I see an icon over the head of a character when they fail a saving throw. I get a success notification when they succeed a Perception check to reveal a hidden button. There's a note in the corner of the screen when my character remembers whether or not they read about a monster in a book. Instead of wondering about the secrets hiding in the black box of the game's inner workings, I'm invited in. I'm part of the process. I get to see what went wrong, and what worked.

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Baldur's Gate 3 also manages to be (relatively) welcoming to those unfamiliar with D&D. There are words I can hover my mouse over that offer helpful explanations throughout every item description, action button, and spell. The action buttons across the bottom of the screen pop up cards with details about what each action does. If I forget what kind of weapons my character knows how to use, I get a warning when I try to equip them. There's even a lengthy tutorial and reference section in my menu.

The concepts that require flipping back and forth between chapters in a physical book become so much more clear when presented in a video game.

Being so faithful to 5th Edition rules means that Baldur's Gate 3 is constantly illustrating concepts and rules for me. So much of what felt like paperwork, formulas, and spreadsheets in D&D becomes so much clearer on a computer screen. I can quickly piece together that my Tiefling character has a bonus to Charisma, that my Charisma Ability score adds to my Persuasion Skill, and that Persuading the person I'm talking to will need a roll of nine on a 20-sided die to succeed, all from hovering my cursor above character options and dialogue choices.

The hardest part of D&D is finding a time when everyone can meet to play. Having Baldur's Gate 3 to turn it into a solo experience is a great way to scratch the role-playing itch when scheduling fails.

Wintingo online casino. The only thing missing is the real-time feedback I get from a human DM. There's no one there to ask me, 'Are you sure you want to do that?' when I try something harebrained. There's no way to argue in support of the Rule of Cool when what I'm trying isn't technically allowed, but would be awesome if it worked.

Baldur's Gate 3 is a video game and that means, as a DM, it's inflexible. It's still a lot of fun to see what I can get away with, though.

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Introduction

Street Dice is a dice game that debuted at the Downtown Grand casino in Las Vegas on May 16, 2014. It could loosely be described as a simplified version of craps, with just two bets and a maximum of four rolls to resolve a bet. At the Grand, the game is played outdoors with the dice cast inside a three-sided wood box, painted to look like an alley.


The dealer uses a claw to pick up the dice.

Rules

There are two bets only in Street Dice. Both are played with two ordinary dice.


Pass Bet

  1. The Pass bet is made before the 'Set the Point' roll, the equivalent to the come out roll in craps.
  2. If the Set the Point roll is a 7, then the Pass bet pushes.
  3. If the Set the Point roll is an 11, then the Pass bet wins even money.
  4. If the Set the Point roll is a 2, 3, or 12, then the Pass bet loses.
  5. Otherwise, whatever was rolled becomes the Point. The object is to roll the point again, within three more rolls, and without rolling a seven. The odds depend on the point and on which roll it was rolled a second time, according to the pay table below.
  6. If a seven is rolled after the Set the Point roll, or the player goes three rolls without rolling the point or a seven (I'll call this getting three strikes), then the Pass bet loses.

Pass Bet Pay Table

Roll Point
4, 10 5, 9 6, 8
1 5 to 1 4 to 1 3 to 1
2 4 to 1 3 to 1 2 to 1
3 3 to 1 2 to 1 1 to 1

These are the dice used. They are a little bigger than craps dice. I'm told the Grand preferred to use even larger dice, but these are as big as Nevada Gaming will allow.

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Brick Bet

  1. The Brick bet is made before the 'Set the Point' roll.
  2. If the Set the Point roll is a 7 or 11, then the Brick bet pushes.
  3. If the Set the Point roll is a 2, 3, 5, 9, or 12, then the Brick bet loses.
  4. Otherwise, whatever was rolled becomes the Point. The object is to roll the point again the hard way* within three more rolls, and without rolling a seven or the point the easy way**. A win pays 25 to 1.
  5. If the player rolls a seven, rolls the point the easy way, or goes three rolls after the Set the Point roll without doing either, then the Brick bet loses.

* The Hard Way is rolling a particular even number with both dice landing on the same face. For example, a five and five would be called a hard 10.
** The Easy Way is rolling a particular even number with both dice landing on difference faces. For example, a four and six would be called an easy 10.
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Analysis

The following return table shows the probability and contribution to the return of all possible outcomes of the Pass bet. The lower right cell shows a house edge of 5.02%.

Pass Bet Return Table

Event Pays Probability Return
Set the Point roll 7 0 0.166667 0.000000
Set the Point roll 11 1 0.055556 0.055556
Set the Point roll 2, 3, 12 -1 0.111111 -0.111111
Roll 1 -- Point 4 or 10 5 0.013889 0.069444
Roll 1 -- Point 5 or 9 4 0.024691 0.098765
Roll 1 -- Point 6 or 8 3 0.038580 0.115741
Roll 2 -- Point 4 or 10 4 0.010417 0.041667
Roll 2 -- Point 5 or 9 3 0.017833 0.053498
Roll 2 -- Point 6 or 8 2 0.026792 0.053584
Roll 3 -- Point 4 or 10 3 0.007813 0.023438
Roll 3 -- Point 5 or 9 2 0.012879 0.025758
Roll 3 -- Point 6 or 8 1 0.018605 0.018605
Seven out -1 0.248114 -0.248114
Three strikes -1 0.247054 -0.247054
Total 1.000000 -0.050223

The following return table shows the probability and contribution to the return of all possible outcomes of the Brick bet. The lower right cell shows a house edge of 6.27%.

Brick Bet Return Table

Event Pays Probability Return
Set the Point roll 7 or 11 0 0.222222 0.000000
Set the Point roll 2, 3, 5, 9, 12 -1 0.333333 -0.333333
Hard way win 25 0.027502 0.687538
Point made easy way -1 0.088594 -0.088594
Seven out -1 0.165009 -0.165009
Three strikes -1 0.163340 -0.163340
Total 1.000000 -0.062738

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This display indicates how many more rolls the player has to hit the point.

Free The Dice

Rack Card


Playing

Analysis

The following return table shows the probability and contribution to the return of all possible outcomes of the Pass bet. The lower right cell shows a house edge of 5.02%.

Pass Bet Return Table

Event Pays Probability Return
Set the Point roll 7 0 0.166667 0.000000
Set the Point roll 11 1 0.055556 0.055556
Set the Point roll 2, 3, 12 -1 0.111111 -0.111111
Roll 1 -- Point 4 or 10 5 0.013889 0.069444
Roll 1 -- Point 5 or 9 4 0.024691 0.098765
Roll 1 -- Point 6 or 8 3 0.038580 0.115741
Roll 2 -- Point 4 or 10 4 0.010417 0.041667
Roll 2 -- Point 5 or 9 3 0.017833 0.053498
Roll 2 -- Point 6 or 8 2 0.026792 0.053584
Roll 3 -- Point 4 or 10 3 0.007813 0.023438
Roll 3 -- Point 5 or 9 2 0.012879 0.025758
Roll 3 -- Point 6 or 8 1 0.018605 0.018605
Seven out -1 0.248114 -0.248114
Three strikes -1 0.247054 -0.247054
Total 1.000000 -0.050223

The following return table shows the probability and contribution to the return of all possible outcomes of the Brick bet. The lower right cell shows a house edge of 6.27%.

Brick Bet Return Table

Event Pays Probability Return
Set the Point roll 7 or 11 0 0.222222 0.000000
Set the Point roll 2, 3, 5, 9, 12 -1 0.333333 -0.333333
Hard way win 25 0.027502 0.687538
Point made easy way -1 0.088594 -0.088594
Seven out -1 0.165009 -0.165009
Three strikes -1 0.163340 -0.163340
Total 1.000000 -0.062738

Role Playing Dice Games


This display indicates how many more rolls the player has to hit the point.

Free The Dice

Rack Card


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Here I am making the very fist bet, which was Tweeted. Hopefully, that guy behind me wasn't holding his nose because of me.

Internal Links

  • Die Rich — Similar game that appeared at the Luxor in 2006.

External Links

  • Wizard of Vegas — Discussion about the game in my forum.

Written by:Michael Shackleford



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