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Root826006y@nobes Tabletop gaming.
tl;dr: "5d6" means "roll five 6-sided dice."
Here's more information than you bargained for: 😋
Dice rolls are in the format of: ndx+y, where`n` is the number of dice, `d` is the dice operator literal, `x` is the number of sides per die, and `y` is a constant (or another dice roll). Thus, 5d6 means "roll five 6-sided dice."
Other examples: 3d20, 6d6, 3d10, 12d3+1, 1d100+1d10 (aka percentiles; though 1d10*10+1d10 is much more common, as golfball d100s are rare)
It's a very succinct expression that allows a high amount of variety, and with the amount of regular polygons (fair dice shapes), it allows either a high or small degree of precision in the resulting dice rolls.
Such as: 2d10 has low precision (picking a number between 1-20), while 6d3+3 has higher precision (9-21)
Also, dice are referred to almost exclusively by this convention: "Its my favorite d20," or "I lost four of my d3's!"
In the case of this rant, the developer concatenated the five d6 results instead of adding them.
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