this activated my statistics brain too hard and i wound up more "this guy is way too fuckin' good at this" than "wahoo take all my willpower" haha
but i see from Incredibly Horny Hypno Avatar commenter below me that you knocked it out of the park with the target audience, so well done!
my main critique is that the starting INT seems a bit high for a guy who seems to pretty consistently make really bad decisions
Everyone thinks the dealer cheats! Unless he has somehow gone rogue within the machine, he does not! He just makes good decisions on what die to roll next based on the outcome of his first roll. But I am also often surprised at how often he manages to get within 0-2 points of the line. If you would like to run a statistical test to figure out if the naga really does cheat with p < 0.05, please let me know so I can be aware if I have accidentally created a malevolent computer intelligence.
Thanks for the review, and you're totally right about the INT being too high. Honestly, 15 just seemed like a nice round number. If the stats really worked like in DnD, I am pretty sure going to 0 INT would make you essentially into a vegetable, instead of just a puppy dog.
i don't think he cheats — i mostly think (a) making good decisions is just incredibly powerful actually, (b) you're usually shooting for 10 or lower which severely limits the number of possible outcomes and dilutes the impact of chance, and (c) a loss is far less impactful for the dealer than it is for me, which makes it more annoying that he's really good :)
