How does “If a number or other game variable is selected “at random” or “randomly” from a range of possible values, its value shall always be taken from a uniform probability distribution over the entire range of possible values, unless otherwise specified. This value must be determined by an appropriate roll in the Dice Roller, unless otherwise specified, and which value the roll result corresponds to must be reasonably inferable from the nature of the roll and any comments supplied by the Nomicer making the roll before or while making the roll. If a selection is explicitly specified as being “secretly” random, the Nomicer making this determination may do so using a private method of their choosing, instead of the Dice Roller.” not already cover this?

@Clucky: Empirically the exisiting rule doesn’t successfully cover this case because players have historically been unwilling to write proposals to make weighted dice rolls without trying to specify how (even though such specifications have been doing more harm than good, as we saw recently).

It’s also written in terms of weights rather than probabilities, which are generally easier to use in rules (and work around problems like Josh’s “what if the Dice Roller probabilities aren’t exactly correct?” that came up during my DoV).

I don’t mind too much if players decide that this is unnecessary (even though Josh explicitly requested it in the belief that it would be necessary, he may have been wrong).

I worry a bit about the “the choice is made by posting a Dice Roller comment that contains a list of the options with positive weights”—I guess it doesn’t hurt to keep it there.

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I feel like this is unnecessarily prescriptive for a common phrase which already has an unambiguous statistical meaning, and honestly it’s a little too verbose and confusing for me personally to the point that I would have trouble following it.

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