jadagul:

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lytefoot:

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(With reference to this post here.)

The second one. d66 tables were sometimes referred to as d6/d6 tables decades ago, but – unless you pronounce the slash – “d6/d6” sounds exactly like “dee-sixty-six”, so the latter soon stuck.

My group has always read d66 as “d6 percentile,” which is wrong in every conceivable way but communicates to someone with our precise degree of brain-rot how the roll is imagined.

I mean, it’s not wrong wrong.

D6 36-quantile?

I think my favourite proposal is that one guy who was like “calling it a d66 is counterintuitive, you should call it a d36 and then have a little paragraph explaining that it’s read in base 6″ – like, really? Introducing alternative bases is your plan for making it more intuitive for the average reader?

Also it’s not actually in base six because “6” isn’t a symbol you can use in base 6.

I get what they’re going for, but if you want to be correct you’d have to say it’s in base six and also you’re using an alternate numeral system where “1” represents zero, “2” represents one, all the way up to “6” which represents five. And then you have all the numbers from 11 (zero) up through 66 (thirty-five).

And that is definitely an intuitive explanation that will confuse nobody.

d6^2, obviously