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Role Playing Games (RPGs): 50 years of Making Math Fun: Mechanics or Gameplay

An Exhbit at the Science and Engineering Library Summer-Fall 2024

The Math Part

   

 

For Further information on the math part, we recommend these resources:

 

Browning, Christopher. “How to Calculate Ability Scores D&D 5E.” Plus One to Gaming, Plus One to Gaming, 16 Oct. 2023, www.plusonetogaming.com/blog-episodes/how-to-calculate-ability-scores-dnd-5e#:~:text=To.

“Dungeons and Dragons Mathematics.” Dungeons and Dragons Mathematics, The Monkey House, 4 May 2008, monkeysushi.net/gaming/DnD/math.html.

Emblem, Holly. “Understanding Probability Theory with Dungeons and Dragons.” Medium, Towards Data Science, 26 Aug. 2018, towardsdatascience.com/understanding-probability-theory-with-dungeons-and-dragons-a36bc69aec88.

Green, Kris H. “Coming out of the Dungeon: Mathematics and Role-Playing Games.” Fisher Digital Publications, St. John Fisher University, 2012, fisherpub.sjf.edu/math_facpub/19/.

Lai, Tri, and Gregg Musiker. “Dungeons and Dragons: Combinatorics for the DP3 Quiver.” Annals of Combinatorics, vol. 24, no. 2, 2020, pp. 257–309, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00026-019-00487-y.

Willmert, Justin. “Basic D&D Statistics: DICE Rolling with Advantage.” Basic D&D Statistics: Dice Rolling with Advantage, 2020, justinwillmert.com/articles/2020/basic-dd-statistics-dice-rolling-with-advantage/.

Willmert, Justin. “Basic D&D Statistics: Sums of Dice Rolls.” Basic D&D Statistics: Sums of Dice Rolls, 2020, justinwillmert.com/articles/2020/basic-dd-statistics-sums-of-dice-rolls/.

 

 

 

Creating a Character

Rolling the Dice

Combat

Gameplay