jayd (02/25/83)
The convention of defining hit abilities by xdy e.g. 1d3 is from the game dungeons and dragons (for a little background). In fact it might have orriginated somewhere previously (thats a disclaimer so that a discussion doesn't get started on that). What it means is: x is the number of dice which get rolled y is the number of sides on each die. What is produced is: if the number is 1d2 the result of rolling the die is 1 or 2 if the number is 2d2 the result is 2 to 4 if the number is 3d4 the result is 3 to 12 etc. Sorry this explanation seems so disjointed.