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I sometimes have people at the table I am playing with complain when I use the dice roller built into HLO saying they don't trust it. I have faith in the RNG in HLO but I would like to know what RNG is used so I can be like, "Here is the RNG they use, see it's random". It blows my mind the number of people that don't trust a RNG to roll a d20 but they trust one to make secure financial transactions.
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I don't know what HLO uses, but if it's just a dice roller, I wouldn't necessarily expect it to be on par with RNGs used for cryptography. It COULD be on par, but there's no reason to expect it to be. |
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just about any RNG you'll find in use today is going to be better than mass produced cheap dice.
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I’m hoping a dev will weigh in, it should be a simple question. I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be crytptologically secure quality.
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I don't know the answer myself, being a DFA rather than a Dev, but I flagged this to the person who should know.
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If I'm running a game, and I'm attacking the party with a creature, a monster or an NPC, and I used HL's dice tool, and I roll three natural 20s in a row, that's not only allowed for with randomness, but it's to be expected sometimes. But that's counter-intuitive to our brain's understanding of randomness. If I do the same thing with a physical d20, it appears symmetrical, therefore it appears to be fair. Also, people have been using dice for games much longer than we've been using computers, so it's also more "normal" and more trusted. When it comes to understanding random number generation, computer code is more esoteric and less approachable than the perception of physical symmetry. I doubt the average gamer, even if you showed them the code, would understand the intricacies of random number generation anymore than they would have the capacity to measure the balance (and, by extension, the randomness) of a physical die. |
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My craziest streak of natural 20s ran 7 long, FYI.
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