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

submitted 3 days 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] 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (9 children)

I have never played ~~R&D~~ D&D (or, I did once, but had a bad experience), so bear with me.

Is it ever allowed to simply do the thing, instead of rolling dice? For example in this case, to place 5+5 tokens upside down, and pick two of them? Or fold pieces of paper, etc?

Edit: I meant D&D of course. Don't know where the R came from.

[–] WolfLink 17 points 3 days ago

Absolutely!

The rules are a base framework for the DM to build upon.

Also the scenario in the comic isn’t actual DnD it’s really a math problem phrased in a DnD setting using standard DnD dice. In a real game the DM would probably do something like what you described.

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