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by Dylan16807
899 days ago
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> His original goal was to make his simple combat stat system clear to users by describing its odds as odds conventionally are described. Except that odds values don't add on to each other. It sounds like the numbers only worked like odds in a single way, and not in other ways. The system was inherently contradictory, and confusion is not irrational in that situation. And it's easy to clarify something as odds by making it two opposing percentages out of 100. |
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1:3 means the second outcome (that on the right-hand side of the ':' symbol) is 3 times as likely as the former outcome, which is true when the likelihood of the first outcome is 25% and the likelihood of the second outcome is 75%.
1/3 describes the chances only of one of the outcomes, and fixes it at 33⅓%. If there's only one other outcome, its likelihood is 66⅔%.
Is the 'addition' you're talking about just one of the readings of the first syntax, or did I miss something else in the video that made the initial presentation of those odds figures surprising?
Sorry if my terminology is off; it's been a long time since I did any stats