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 5 6-sided dice rolled against a target number of 4:
The probability of 5 successes or more is 3.125
The probability of 4 successes or more is 18.75
The probability of 3 successes or more is 50
The probability of 2 successes or more is 81.25
The probability of 1 success or more is 96.875
The probability of no successes is 3.125
and here is the form itself: