Scott Gray's Dice Pool Calculator

This program is © 2000 by Scott David Gray.

This program is designed to calculate probabilities when using a dice pool.

Dice pools are used in role playing games such as Shadowrun, Star Trek, the Storyteller games, and other games. A dice pool is used by rolling a number of dice and, rather than adding them together, comparing the rolls to a target number and counting how many dice meet that target.

Here are the figures (cumulative) for 6 4-sided dice rolled against a target number of 4:

The probability of 6 successes or more is 0.0244140625
The probability of 5 successes or more is 0.4638671875
The probability of 4 successes or more is 3.759765625
The probability of 3 successes or more is 16.943359375
The probability of 2 successes or more is 46.6064453125
The probability of 1 success or more is 82.2021484375
The probability of no successes is 17.7978515625

and here is the form itself:


Number of dice to be thrown:
Number of sides each die has:
Target number:

Not cumulative
Cumulative
Both cumulative and not cumulative

This program was designed (and the math calculated) by Scott David Gray, from the Sudbury Valley School.
If you find this program to be useful, you will want to check out my PERL Card Calculator program, and PERL Shadowrun Dice Pool Calculator program.

Click here for a copy of this program.

If you find this program useful, please treat me to to a $3 cup of coffee!!!