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| Apr 15 at 14:07 | comment | added | user3067860 | Or the low-budget variation, which is just slips of paper in a bag. The great thing about this method in general is you can do more subtle probability nudges where you start with, say, three of each attack and remove as you go, so you can end up with some clumping but you're still guaranteed an even overall distribution of attack type. Or some of the attacks are marked and after you draw enough markers then it does it's big attack. Etc. (Also if you have some cash and find paper unsatisfying but hate shuffling, colored or marked tokens in a bag are nice and tactile.) | |
| Apr 15 at 0:28 | comment | added | Kirt | Of note, statisticians talk about the difference between a random result when "sampling with replacement" vs "sampling without replacement" based on whether or not the outcome is equally likely to come up again after having been previously selected. Dice are a great way to sample with replacement and cards (without reshuffling) are a great way to sample without replacement. | |
| Apr 14 at 23:16 | history | answered | sptrashcan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |