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ChristopherGroves
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 | | 12/02/2005 1:02 PM |  Alert | Core Information
- Tournament Play Includes links to the rulebook (on the errata page), FAQ, Floor Rules, etc. Rulebook can also be found here
- For rules clarifications, etc. see Guy's clarifications; Guy Fullerton is the official D&D Minis rules guru.
- Guy's general page has more handy information including expositions on melee reach, LOS, etc.
- DDM Wikipedia Article including glossary, definitions, common terms, etc.
Key Articles
- Kiddoc's discussion of the 4 factions pre-GenCon 2005 and their competitive potential:
- - Lawful Good
- - Chaotic Good
- - Lawful Evil
- - Chaotic Evil
- Planning for Victory DDM tournament preparation by Kiddoc
- An overview assembly tiles and some tile tricks if you're still interested. Not as useful with the move to maps coming up.
- The collected wisdom of the MaxMinis community as compiled by doubtofbuddha DDM Skirmish Tookit, by faction. If you think something needs to be updated or changed, discuss:
- - Compiled Toolkit 2.0
- Terrain Analysis by Fenris Magma Keep - Hellspike Prison - Mushroom Cavern - Field of Ruin & Dragon Shrine
- Activation Control by Fenris
- Learning from Losing by Fenris
- Sealed Guide to War Drums by doubtofbuddha
Tournament Reports
Often you can glean alot from reading tournament reports. You can pick up tricks, strategies and improve your game in-general.
- MaxMinis Tournament Forum
- 2004 Championship Report by Kiddoc
- Synechdoche's 2004 GenCon SoCal report
- 2005 Championship Report by Fenris
- Bill Baldwin's reports of the 2005 Championships ... Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3
- Pat Ellis went 9-0 at the 2005 Gen Con grinder with an Archmage band
Reference Lists
- Want to know what commanders can use what warband building options? Check here: Warband building, all options by AesophDarkfable
- The Champion of Eilistraee has a nifty commander effect but one that can be sometimes determine which figures can beneift. Check this thread (thanks to Faragdar the Wise)
- Ever wonder who can summon what? AesophDarkfable has the answer ...
- Orion72 has compiled a list of valid minions ... check it out
- Another list from Orion72 ... this time it is commander effects and who benefits
- And the partner list from FaragdarTheWise ... this time it is Rakshasa stealing commander effects
- Turn [whatever] lists from Warchanger
- Booster Inserts posted online for you by LCS.
Good Forum Threads / Discussions
- Sealed event strategies
- Building a Warband from the Ground Up
- Analysis of tech figures
- How to become a better skirmisher
- High-variance warbands Wizards of the Coast message boards
- Stalling for time Wizards of the Coast message boards
- Take-backs ... allowed? Wizards of the Coast message boards
- Inexpensive Tournament Warbands (a resource for new players)
- Are activations as important now as they were?
- DDM & Combinatorial Game Theory
Other Resources
- Merric's strategy page by our very own Merric Blackman
- If you're wondering why some minis are just better than others, read this: When Cards Go Bad. Based on MtG, this describes why some cards (and thus DDM figures) are simply better or worse than each other.
- Playing to Win From the viewpoint of a competitive video game player and designer but has parallels into all foms of competitive gaming.
- DDM SoCal represents one of the stronger segments of DDM players in the world.
- Argwinkle's excellent line of sight tool
- DDM Master List by WoTC and The_Duke's excel version
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ChristopherGroves
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| | 12/02/2005 1:21 PM | Alert | Maxminis Member-Created
robbdaman http://www.maxminis.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12331
budleiser http://www.localgaming.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=4
Vry http://www.magist.com/ddm/
benimoto's terran tile maker http://www.sev.org/members/bmazur/dndminis/mtm.html
Custom Maps and Tiles
01 Games ( & $): http://www.0onegames.com/
Alea Publishing Group ( & $): http://www.rpgnow.com/default.php?manufacturers_id=464
Atomix Games (): http://www.frpgames.com/atomix/cart.php?m=free_downloads
Craig's Fire & Ice tile (link to Merric's site) (): http://www.3rdedition.org/merricb/fireice.pdf
The Crotalus Den (): http://www.thecrotalusden.com/
D&D Miniatures #d Tile Archive (): http://project2501.tzo.com/DND_Miniatures_3D_Tile_Archive/index.html
D&D Minis FR (): http://ddminis.free.fr/ddminis/modules.php?name=Downloads
DandY Cards, Collectibles, & Games (): http://dandy.co.nz/catalog/tiles.php?
Dungeoneering Tiles (): http://www.dungeoneering.net/downloads.php5
Fiery Dragon Productions ($): http://www.fierydragon.com/
Forgotten (): http://torgny.josef.iemke.hylen.denestor.com/
HeroQuest New Tiles (): http://www.aginsinn.com/tiles.html
Lathanm's 2d/3d D&D minis tiles (): http://home.comcast.net/~lathanm/index.html
Lemonbutter* (): http://www.lemonbutter.com/dd/
Mysterious Glow (): http://mysteriousglow.com/gametiles.html
Skeleton Key Games ( & $): http://www.skeletonkeygames.com/
Skeleton Key Games' free page: http://www.skeletonkeygames.com/downloads.html
UKG Publishing ( & $): http://www.rpgnow.com/default.php?manufacturers_id=510
Vesivus D&D Module Tiles ( & $): http://www.vesivus.com/tiles/index.htm
Wotc's GoL battlemat (): http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mit/20040526golalternate
Wotc's rpga tiles (): http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mi/20041007b
Wotc's Broken Fountain & Hall of Heroes Tile (Hosted by Alepulp) (): www.youradnd.co.uk/DDM/DDMInfo.htm
Wotc's Map-a-Week links (): http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mw/20031106a
Wotc's Star Wars minis tiles (): http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=swminis/article/swmtileset1
Zim Zeb Clavin's Game Tile Emporium (): http://www.unorganized-play.com/dockingbay19/index.htm
Terrain
Dundjinni Mapping Software ($):http://www.dunjinni.com/
ProFantasy Software ($): http://www.profantasy.com/
World Works Games 3d terrain ($):http://www.worldworksgames.com/
Wotc's Chainmail tiles ():http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=minis/ch20020312dt
Spell Templates
From The Dungeoneer (): http://www.dungeoneering.net/downloads.php5?page=tiles
From Simage (): http://www.stenzelimaging.com/temp.htm
*Includes link to super cool/useful custom tile generator
Diomedes' Favorite Links
Atomix Games (): http://www.frpgames.com/atomix/cart.php?m=free_downloads
Lemonbutter* (): http://www.lemonbutter.com/dd/ (for the tile generator)
Wotc's rpga tiles (): http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mi/20041007b
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ChristopherGroves
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| | 02/20/2006 9:20 AM | Alert | What is the Chance to Win Initiative
Courtesy of HidesFromHurricanes, Vrecknidj and Dagni
When commander ratings are equal we have an equal chance to win initiative. But what is the chance to win initiative based on difference in commander rating?
<br>Difference % with Advantage % with Disadvantage<br>0 ............. 52.50 ................. 47.50<br>1 ............. 57.25 ................. 42.75<br>2 ............. 61.75 ................. 38.25<br>3 ............. 66.00 ................. 34.00<br>4 ............. 70.00 ................. 30.00<br>5 ............. 73.75 ................. 26.25<br>6 ............. 77.25 ................. 22.75<br>7 ............. 80.50 ................. 19.50<br>8 ............. 83.50 ................. 16.50<br>9 ............. 86.25 ................. 13.75<br>10 ............ 88.75 ................. 11.25<br>11 ............ 91.00 ................. 9.00<br>
So the first row is a rather odd beast, Commander 0 vs no commander. The rest are fairly explanatory. So how did I get the values for the table? Well there are 400 combinations of initiative rolls, but there is an easily countable number of times the lower beats the higher commander rating. Start where the lower Commander rating rolls 20, there are 20 - D -1 rolls for the higher commander that lower commander wins. This goes down on per each roll until there is only one number where the lower commander wins. This sum works out to be (20-D-1)*(20-D)/2 different rolls where the lower commander rating beats the higher. Divide this number by 4(divide by 400 multiply by 100) to figure the percentage. This gives the third column and the second column is just the third subtracted from 100%. | |
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ChristopherGroves
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Bert the Troll
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Adelaide
| | 10/02/2006 7:43 PM | Alert | Yes, it does need updating, as it seems the "The collected wisdom of the MaxMinis community as compiled by doubtofbuddha DDM Skirmish Tookit" is now gone ):
(and a table needs fixing/formating as is way too wide) | |
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ChristopherGroves
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Bert the Troll
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Adelaide
| | 10/03/2006 6:02 PM | Alert | | Why has everyone taken two steps backwarsd 'cept for me.. ummm... possibily. | |
"Mutton yesterday, mutton today, and blimey, if it don't look like mutton again tomorrer." Bert the Troll - The Hobbit
Semi-Secret sig business: Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. ~ Seinfeld
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Sirohk
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| | 10/05/2006 3:54 AM | Alert | It seems that this indeed needs updating.Â
All of the Toolkits are now gone (someone was asking in a thread about them) and are posted on another website.Â
Pending time / my schedule, I may be able to help update this thread (such as the Toolkits). I will do a little investigating.Â
So yes, I sort of am volunteering to help Bert the Troll.Â
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Faragdar the Wise
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Vrecknidj
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Vrecknidj
Warlord
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| | 04/13/2007 5:14 PM | Alert | Courtesy of HidesFromHurricanes, Vrecknidj and Dagni
When commander ratings are equal we have an equal chance to win initiative. But what is the chance to win initiative based on difference in commander rating?
Difference % with Advantage % with Disadvantage
0 ............. 52.50 ................. 47.50
1 ............. 57.25 ................. 42.75
2 ............. 61.75 ................. 38.25
3 ............. 66.00 ................. 34.00
4 ............. 70.00 ................. 30.00
5 ............. 73.75 ................. 26.25
6 ............. 77.25 ................. 22.75
7 ............. 80.50 ................. 19.50
8 ............. 83.50 ................. 16.50
9 ............. 86.25 ................. 13.75
10 ............ 88.75 ................. 11.25
11 ............ 91.00 ................. 9.00
So the first row is a rather odd beast, Commander 0 vs no commander. The rest are fairly explanatory. So how did I get the values for the table? Well there are 400 combinations of initiative rolls, but there is an easily countable number of times the lower beats the higher commander rating. Start where the lower Commander rating rolls 20, there are 20 – D – 1 rolls for the higher commander that lower commander wins. This goes down on per each roll until there is only one number where the lower commander wins. This sum works out to be (20 – D – 1)*(20 – D)/2 different rolls where the lower commander rating beats the higher. Divide this number by 4(divide by 400 multiply by 100) to figure the percentage. This gives the third column and the second column is just the third subtracted from 100%.
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Sirohk
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