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xkcd #3015: D&D Combinatorics (xkcd.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Look, you can't complain about this after giving us so many scenarios involving N locked chests and M unlabeled keys.

https://explainxkcd.com/3015/

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This is where a LLM might come in handy. Just tell it the parameters and say roll random. I think D&D could really benefit from the LLM. Shouldn't be too hard to just let it be the DM. That way everyone can be in the party 😂

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Except an LLM has no way to roll anything random, it will just predict the most likely text for a random roll, which isn't remotely the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Why couldn't they be paired with a true rng? They can reference outside sources.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Why use dice and simple math to solve a problem, when we can use an enormous pile of circuitry, electricity and vector calculus to get an algorithmically determined string of text that contains a probabilistically likely description of the correct dice to roll?