Originally Posted by Niara
Somewhere else, I cannot find where, I know that I explained why the predictable wave pattern of this game's RNG has a tangible impact on your actual success and failure rate, despite returning the expected distribution of results. I also noted that that does indeed have a knock-on psychological effect, and amplifes our tendency to notice and remember such things more. the basics of it are that with this RNG, you will still ultimately get the same average distribution of raw rolls, however, you are more likely to get multiple low rolls in succession, in clusters, than with a better RNG. This has the result of causing strings of misses or failures, which we remember more keenly than spaced out ones, but it also means that we have more liklihood of failures-against-all-odd, since we have a greater propensity to have our advantage rolls turn up double low results. If the clusters were occasional, sporadic or infrequent, that would be one thing, but they aren't: they're tangible, visible and regular; as a result, the strings of misses and misses-against-odds that we come up against also happen more tangibly and more regularly

None of which matters when the dice rolling doesn't *feel* like D&D.