Can Increasing the Amount of Dice DECREASE Randomness in Games (Wargames & RPGs) w/Geoff Engelstein

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What effect does increasing the amount of dice in a game have? Does it matter how you introduce the dice into the game? Perhaps counterintuitively, adding more dice to a game in certain ways can actually decrease the amount of randomness in the game. I discuss this subject with Geoff Engelstein.

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