Friday, October 3, 2008

Back again -- morphing die question

So j. has to attack, and almost certainly should take the morphing-20 sided die.
but does it make sense to take it with HIS morphing die? argument yes: he needs big dice
to have a chance of forcing me to reroll my 20-sided dice; argument no: it's almost certain to get captured, and he'd give me 8 points as his morphing die increases.... also, does rerolling with your other dice showing 3-5-5 threaten me as much as rerolling with the remaining dice showing 3-4-5? Maybe the fact that MY two other small dice show 3 and 1 mitigates this somewhat.

or am I grasping at straws here and overthinking it? remember this is all BEFORE doing any specific computation...
Tournament #12831: "Beating the stats" tournament for Jl8e
Current Round: Round 4. (organized by glassonion)
Top 10 buttons ranked 40-60% overall using which jl8e has played 10 or more games. Please pick randomly.
This game was last modified on Fri Oct 3, 2008 08:01:11

Player: ElihuRoot *Dead Dude* *Fanatic*
Button Man: Talus Score: 57 (24.3 sides) Rounds Won/Lost/Tied: 1 / 1 / 0 (out of 3 round(s))
Captured Dice: 20-sided die
Dice4-sided dieMorphing
20-sided die
20-sided die20-sided dieX Swing
(with 10 sides)
Value3419181
Dice4-sided dieMorphing
12-sided die
20-sided dieX Swing
(with 5 sides)
Value3455
* Next Turn * Player: jimmosk *Classically Fuzzy* *Bronze Medal in Men's Bars* *Bronze Medal in Men's Judo* * Next Turn *
Button Man: Talus Score: 20.5 (-24.3 sides) Rounds Won/Lost/Tied: 1 / 1 / 0
Captured Dice: None

Results from last turn:
ElihuRoot is performing a skill attack with a Morphing 12-sided die showing 10,a 20-sided die showing 7 and a X Swing 10-sided die showing 1,
targeting jimmosk's 20-sided die showing 18.

Since ElihuRoot attacked with a morphing die (Morphing 12-sided die showing 10), the number of sides it has is changed to 20.
The Morphing 20-sided die is rerolled and the new value is 4.
The 20-sided die is rerolled and the new value is 19.
The X Swing 10-sided die is rerolled and the new value is 1.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

One factor you didn't list- his 10.

Take it with the 12-sider, otherwise he gets a chance to use his 10 (showing 1) and 4 (showing 3) in a skill attack. You need to keep that 10 low to force him to use the 19 and 20.

-shavenjesus

Ted said...

Hmmm. that's an interesting idea, but if you did that, so the morphing 12-sided die becomes a morphing 10 sided die -- wouldn't my (ERoot's) response just be to take the 4-sided die with my morphing 20 (at least, unless the morphing-10 rolled an 8 or a 9; I guess if it rolled a 1,2,3,or 4 I'd have the morphing 20 capture IT instead of the 4 sided die) -- I'd keep the big 20 siders safe for another turn, and turn my morphing 20 into a morphing 4.