Therefore the first arrow would have a 5/10 chance of being cursed, while the second selection would have either a 4/9 or 5/9 chance of being cursed depending on whether or not the first arrow was cursed.
If they pulled one, checked if it was cursed, and then pulled another, you’d be right
But they pulled two out of ten at the same time.
So roll two d10s, and say odds are cursed and even would regular. And that’s good enough.
I mean, maybe I’m missing something and I didn’t spell it out exactly what I meant in the first comment, but that should be the exact same odds as the action.
We have a binary result: cursed or regular. You probably wouldn’t lose anything by flipping a coin twice as long as the distribution of the arrows in the quiver is truly random.
Like, if you’re looking closer than that, you might as well account for when the arrows were added to the quiver, if they were added at the same time, how much the quiver has been jostled. The line has to be drawn somewhere, which I think is literally the joke of the comic…
There’s a very very simple solution but the DM is about to overthink and come up with the same result as the easy way, which they’ll realize after taking the long way around.
I know I’ve lost a lot of time by thinking “it’s worth being exact” and then I found out, no it really wasn’t worth it.
If they pulled one, checked if it was cursed, and then pulled another, you’d be right
But they pulled two out of ten at the same time.
So roll two d10s, and say odds are cursed and even would regular. And that’s good enough.
I mean, maybe I’m missing something and I didn’t spell it out exactly what I meant in the first comment, but that should be the exact same odds as the action.
But what if I roll 2 times 1? I can’t pull arrow 1 twice!
Specific number doesn’t matter.
We have a binary result: cursed or regular. You probably wouldn’t lose anything by flipping a coin twice as long as the distribution of the arrows in the quiver is truly random.
Like, if you’re looking closer than that, you might as well account for when the arrows were added to the quiver, if they were added at the same time, how much the quiver has been jostled. The line has to be drawn somewhere, which I think is literally the joke of the comic…
There’s a very very simple solution but the DM is about to overthink and come up with the same result as the easy way, which they’ll realize after taking the long way around.
I know I’ve lost a lot of time by thinking “it’s worth being exact” and then I found out, no it really wasn’t worth it.
you will lose. the first arrow has 50% of being cursed the second 4/9 or 5/9.
That is if he pulled two individually, one after another.
Not two at the same time.
The odds are two out of ten.
There is no simpler way to explain this, I’m sorry if it still isn’t working
the odds of what exactly are 2/10?