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RE: (TFT) Travel,terain and groups



---- David Michael Grouchy II wrote: 
> > From: selfinflicted_wounds@boardermail.com

> Luckily that weekend I found a new gaming product at the hobby
> store called Harn.  I originally picked it up because it had higher 
> quality maps.  Stuff that looked like an actual cartographer was
> involved.  Inside was a weather table.  All it did was start with the
> current weather and randomly move it in one direction or another; 
> from wet to rainy, or from wet to dry.  Cool to cold, things like that.

In mathematical terms, what you're describing is a Markov Chain.
This is a random process where the current state of the system
influences the future state.  If the weather is sunny one day, it is
likely to be sunny the next.

Dan
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