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    Is there intended to be an even chance of having each deity for a parent? In that case, it's just a simple 100 divided by the number of gods.

    21 is the product of 3 and 7, neither of which go evenly into 100, so you're going to have a slightly uneven distribution if you are only going to roll 1d100.

    If you want an even distribution, you're going to want a number of gods that will divide 100 with no remainders: 2,4,5,10,20,25 and 50.

    If you can get 33 gods, you can evenly divide it into 3% chances, with any results of 100 resulting in a reroll until you get a result in the range of 1-99.

    You could do a similar thing with any number of gods, and reroll the 'extra' numbers.

    If you have 23 gods, for example, each god gets a 4% chance, and there's a 8% chance of a reroll.

    Is that what you are looking for?


    Use =randbetween(1,<number of gods>), as Eldan recommends below.
    Last edited by Lord Torath; 2021-03-20 at 10:30 AM. Reason: I suffered a bout of stupidity, getting too hung up on the d100
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