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Old June 20th, 2008, 04:30 PM

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Endoperez,

I agree about the categorization. That's why finding a bunch of illusionists in one game is just weird (and possibly observer bias) and not necessarily a bias in the game. I *wonder* about the quality of the pseudorandom number generator, but without knowing the implemenation it's hard to know if the pseudorandom number generator could make any difference. Suppose that one particular seed is more likely to generate 2's on a d8 roll. Does that translate to more Air sites than normal? Only if d8 rolls are involved in site generation, e.g. if the game rolls for the chance of a site existing and then randomly picks which path it will be from a path mask. But it could just as easily do it the other way around (pick the site directly, not the path first) and in that case the d8 weirdness wouldn't matter.

So. It's not too small to be coincidence, but I've just seen things occasionally that make me wonder.

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