Editing Dice Pool (section)

=== Additive ===
It's all bell-curves, just like classic 3d6.  Here's the numbers for counting successes on d10s needing 7s (Exalted), and d6s needing 5s (Shadowrun 4e).  Both systems use crit failures: in Exalted, if you roll more 1s than successes, and with Shadowrun it's when half or more of the dice are showing 1s and you have no successes.
What's a bit messed up with the Exalted-style crit failures is how the more dice you have, because you're more of an expert, the better chance that what few failures you have will be a colossal fuck-ups even with simple tasks.  Shadowrun 4e is also weird because you have a greater chance of glitching if you are using an even number of dice.

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!colspan=9|Additive Dice Pools - Exalted
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!rowspan=2|Dice !!colspan=7|  # of Successes
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!       Botch !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5
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|1d	||10%	||50%	||40%	||-	||-	||-     ||-
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|2d	||11%	||25%	||48%	||16%	||-	||-	||- 	
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|3d	||9%	||13%	||43%	||29%	||6%	||-	||- 
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|4d	||7%	||6%	||35%	||35%	||15%	||2%	||- 
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|5d	||5%	||3%	||26%	||35%	||23%	||8%	||1%
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|6d	||3%	||1%	||19%	||31%	||28%	||14%	||4%
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|7d	||2%	||1%	||13%	||26%	||30%	||20%	||8%
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|8d	||1%	||&lt;1%||9%	||21%	||28%	||24%	||12%
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|9d	||1%	||&lt;1%||6%	||16%	||25%	||25%	||17%
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|10d	||1%	||&lt;1%||4%	||12%	||22%	||25%	||21%
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!colspan=12|Additive Dice Rolls - Shadowrun 4e
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!rowspan=2|Dice !!colspan=10|Threshold
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!  Glitch !! 0   !! 1   !! 2   !! 3   !! 4   !! 5   !! 6   !! 7   !! 8
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|1 || 17% || 66% || 33% || -   ||   - ||   - || -   || -   || -   || - 
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|2 || 31% || 44% || 56% || 11% ||   - ||   - || -   || -   || -   || - 
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|3 ||  7%  || 30% || 70% || 26% ||  4% || -   || -   || -   || -   || - 
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|4 || 13% || 20% || 80% || 41% || 11% ||  1% ||  -  || -   || -   || -
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|5 ||  4% || 13% || 87% || 54%|| 21%|| 05%|| &lt;1%||     - || - || -
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|6 ||  6% ||  9% || 91% || 65%|| 32%|| 10%|| 2%|| &lt;1%||      - || -
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|7 ||  2% ||  6% || 94% || 74%|| 43%|| 17%|| 5%|| 1%|| &lt;1%||      -
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|8 ||  3% ||  4% || 96% || 80%|| 53%|| 26%|| 9%|| 2%|| &lt;1%|| &lt;1%
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!colspan=3|Additive Dice Rolls - 4dFudge !!colspan=2| d6-d6
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!  n !! Exact !! >= n !! Exact !! >= n
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| -4 ||   1%  || 100% ||  6% || 100%
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| -3 ||   5%  ||  99% ||  8% ||  94%
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| -2 ||  12%  ||  94% || 11% ||  86%
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| -1 ||  20%  ||  81% || 14% ||  75%
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|  0 ||  23%  ||  62% || 22% ||  61%
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| +1 ||  20%  ||  38% || 14% ||  39%
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| +2 ||  12%  ||  19% || 11% ||  25%
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| +3 ||   5%  ||   6% ||  8% ||  14%
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| +4 ||   1%  ||   1% ||  6% ||   6%
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