I have of late been pondering the notion of randomness in dice rolls, largely becuase Johannes joined the group. Since everyone else rolls their dice by hand, while he has a rolling cup, it is likely that his dice rolls are more random than anyone else's, and all this without anyone trying to cheat, or even realising that the rolls aren't totally random.
Truth be told, this isn't an issue I see any need to consider at length, since it's so trivial an issue as to be irrelevant, since bringing up anything of this sort is a friendship-ender, since you would need to be a fairly sad individual to cheat in an RPG anyway, and since the only two ways I know of to guarantee random results are more trouble than their worth. (One requires the enforced use of a cup, with minimum shake durations and protocols for witnessing rolls and so on, while the other needs a craps table.)
I just thought it was worth rambling about. Not that I'm bored or anything...
Oh, and I probably wouldn't have given the subject a second thought, except that I witnessed three rolls in immediate succession where the player picked up the dice and immediately threw them down again, generating three almost identical results. But I'm definately not going to say any more on that one, for all the reasons above.
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