D14 - Hoes does it work.?

[Jonathan_Stark]

Hi Forum and DCCRPG Team,

I am not sure if this topic has been discussed before, I had a search for it but I could not find a similar post.
But I was wondering if anyone could detail the maths/mechanics for how a D14 is calculated.?

The reason I ask is because I have noticed some odd behaviouw with D14 results.

For example:
The substitute dice for a D14 is the D20 - if I select a D20 to be rolled as a D14 and the actual D20 result is a 16 - the D14 result is a 3..why is this?
If I roll the same dice again, substitute D20 rolled for a D14 and I get a D20 roll of a 9 this also gave me a D14 result of a 3....confusion...:confused:

I am sure that there is a logical/maths/code based explanation for this, and it would be great if someone could help.

:D

[Trenloe]

For FG dice rolls to have the full functionality they need to use one of the pre-defined models (d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20 or dF), even if the result of that dice roll isn't used, but a result is substituted through code. In the DCC ruleset, the "funky dice" use the 3d models but don't actually use the result - in the case of the d14 the result is calculated using a LUA random number generator - math.random(14).