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Re:How Fair Is My D20? (2015) by badfrog on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @04:38PM (#19258529)
> Currently, GamesByEmail.com uses some 80,000+ die rolls for play in games like Backgammon, Gambit (a RISK clone), W.W.II (an Axis & Allies clone) and others. To generate the die rolls, I have used Math.random, Random.org and other sources, but have always received numerous complaints that the dice are not random enough.

That's a super cool machine, but the justification seems a bit silly. The randomization library in any programming language should be good enough for casual games, and random.org uses atmospheric noise which is almost certainly more random than dice: https://www.random.org/history/

Re:How Fair Is My D20? (2015) by aidenn0 on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @07:32PM (#19259822)
This is to make players happy, not to provide better randomness. Many players will not trust any random data coming from a computer.
Re:How Fair Is My D20? (2015) by Baeocystin on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @09:53PM (#19260456)
As a player, I'd be amused by using radioactivity-generated randomness!

https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/