{"id":759,"date":"2024-01-09T02:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T07:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=759"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:09:20","slug":"t2k-4e-life-path-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=759","title":{"rendered":"T2k 4e Life Path Math"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Elsenet, a colleague recently asked about the likelihood of <em>Twilight: 2000<\/em> 4e PCs making it to various numbers of lifepath terms before the war kicks off.  Assuming a RAW implementation of a 1d8 roll under the number of terms taken thus far, the distribution looks something like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1004\" height=\"306\" src=\"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-01-at-11.45.59.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-01-at-11.45.59.png 1004w, https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-01-at-11.45.59-300x91.png 300w, https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-01-at-11.45.59-768x234.png 768w, https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-01-at-11.45.59-624x190.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1004px) 100vw, 1004px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; so your &#8220;average&#8221; 4e PC will four terms of character development before the war breaks out.  Anything above 6 terms is a significant outlier (and probably doesn&#8217;t have great attributes from all those aging rolls).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(I<em> think <\/em>I got this right, but my math is not guaranteed.  It&#8217;s been a minute since I did anything with probabilities, and I somehow managed to get a master&#8217;s degree without ever taking a college statistics course.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elsenet, a colleague recently asked about the likelihood of Twilight: 2000 4e PCs making it to various numbers of lifepath terms before the war kicks off. Assuming a RAW implementation of a 1d8 roll under the number of terms taken thus far, the distribution looks something like this: &#8230; so your &#8220;average&#8221; 4e PC will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[12,6],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mechanics","tag-t2k","tag-t2k-4e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}