While playing a session Sunday night, I shared dice with a new player to our group. We rolled horribly all night. I'm thinking about going out and buying her a set of her own dice (she complained that my dice were horrible, too).
Any supersititions like this?
I don't play without a shot glass anymore.
supersititions: I am a horrible hit points roller, reguardless of dice used. In the last 11 years of play, I've rolled the following. The most hps I've had with a character when I rolled hps was 19 at level 9 (fighter). The party wizard had 30+...the lols.
d10s(9*, 1,1,1,1,1,2,3)
d6s(2,1,1,1,1)
d4s(1,1,1,1,1...endless string of 1s)
*(I begged at 1st level dm felt sorry for me because I rolled a 1)
Obviously we only roll d4s now, via the iron heros method.
Of course there is my friend to restore cosmic balance. He rolled max or max-1 for all his hps since I've been playing with him. In the game I had 19 hps, he had 117 at level 8 (+5 con bonus d10s). Man, I miss that game.
Get her those dice with 2 20s instead of a 1 and a 20. Don't tell her, but let the dm know. See if this enhances the game at all. Switch to the normal die(they come with a normal identical d20) for the next game.
That sounds like some funny things could happen, but this certain female player wouldn't like the idea that she's being given a handicap.
I was just more or less wondering if people have bans on sharing dice. Another new player at our table used his own set Sunday night, and he opened his first roll with a 20. Just made me think, haha.
If I use any other d20 than my black/white one while playing my necromancer he weill be critically failing his spells ALL THE TIME.
If I use my hematite d20 for my Assassin my DM will start to get frustrated since anything under 14 seems low on that char/dice combo.
If my mom has touched my dice pouch I might aswell not play that night, always seems like I roll worse then. :p
2) Before entering your home with your new dice you must walk around your house in a clockwise circle three times.
3) Never use your dice until they have been properly blessed. To do this, bury your dice in the dirt near your home until the full moon. After dark, on the night of the full moon, dig them up, and place them in the center of a circle of candles. The candles must exactly match the color of the new dice or else be white or purple. Smudge the dice with an incense composed of fennel, basil, sage and mandrake. Light the candles (oh migosh, you didn't LIGHT them already, did you?) and pray to the Luck deity of your chosen D&D campaign.
Raise the dice to each of the cardinal directional points and then to the full moon. Intone the name of your Luck deity seven times. NOW comes the test! Roll each die. If that die rolls the highest number possible, you may use it. If that die rolls a 1 you must travel to the nearest active volcano and fling it in. Otherwise that die must be buried until the next full moon and the ritual performed again. WARNING: NEVER EVER perform this ritual during a month with less than 28 days! Remember, you've been warned!
4) Your dice should always be kept in a velvet pouch with pure 100% silk lining. Failing this, your backpack, purse or jacket pocket will do.
5) Never roll your dice until the first instance that the DM commands. Premature rolling flouts the gods of LUCK.
6) If you get new, prettier dice, your other dice will get jealous. To appease them, place them in a jar, fill the jar halfway with milk, soda or beer and take three umbrella steps, intoning the name of the Luck God/dess of your campaign. Then fill the rest of the jar with potato chips or cheetos. Doritos will not work!
Game science makes precision dice that have sharp crisp edges and don't have that problem. They present each face with equal frequency. Some people don't like them because they still have a blemish (where the die was cut from the die cast frame). Extensive testing has been done on them and verified that the blemish does not affect rolling.
Here is a video that discusses this in depth.
That being said, once you have obtained some high quality game science dice, follow the procedure described above in Lion Lemur's post. Obtaining quality dice is just the first step. If you want them to roll high, you must also appease the dice gods!
cover your hands, do horizontal circle motion while you also shake up and down!
release!
A particular d20 will roll more or less of a given number because the d20 is imperfect. When dice are manufactured, they are die cast which leaves blemishes. To get rid of these blemishes, the dice are put through a rock tumbler with coarse sand that removes the blemishes (as well as beating the hell out of the dice). This results in some corners being more rounded then others which means the die has less of a chance of stopping on the side with the rounder corners. If you round the corners surrounding the 1 enough, that die will never roll a 20 (located opposite of the 1).
That's really interesting and good to know. However, I've played enough sessions with my set of dice to believe that I don't have a huge issue with this, as I've gotten plenty of good numbers and rolls. I think it was just an off night.
Do you use the "perfected" dice, or something else?
If you never contribute(monitarily) to the gaming group, you will roll uber stats and make lots of crits. This is just my personal experience. I'm probably just being paranoid. No wonder I end up being DM.
Kind of like taking a large selection of swords to a duel.
The friends I play with also show up with loads of dice.
They all switch them in and out depending on how they are rolling.
I am the Dungeon Master for my group about 99 % of the time . . .
I was given a very nice blue diamond set of dice for Father's Day from my wife and 2 children.
Every time I use the dice a Player Character buys the farm in a terrible way.
My group lives in utter and complete fear of these dice!
" Fear the Blue Dice of Death ! ! ! "
That said, I like to have a new set of dice for each character (and have several sets waiting in the wings for a few I plan on playing). I don't like certain other people to roll my dice, but that's because certain other people are greasy. If anything, having specific dice for specific roles prevents me from letting the urge to fish for a 'better' die take hold; if Strategy ir'Vaine rolled a crit with any but the Iron Man-coloured Chessex Gemini dice I got just for her, it just wouldn't be right. You live by the dice, you die by the dice.
To contribute a superstition, I have one player who turns all of his dice to their maximum value when not in use. Either it's a bit of compulsive behaviour, or he's trying to train them to remember which way is the right way to land. Perhaps it's a bit of both.
I have one player who turns all of his dice to their maximum value when not in use. Either it's a bit of compulsive behaviour, or he's trying to train them to remember which way is the right way to land. Perhaps it's a bit of both.
Yes, turning dice to their highest number when not in use is a rather common behaviour. As you said, some people do it from pure "compulsion" (e.g. "It looks tidier that way.") and others do it because they feel like they're "training" the dice to favour those numbers.
Such behaviour looks especially ridiculous, though, when you realise how common it also is for people to do the exact opposite. For every person who "stores" his dice with the highest numbers facing up, there's another who stores them with the "1"s facing up. Some people also do this from pure "compulsion" (e.g. "Now they all match!"); but some do it for similar superstitious reasons. While some will keep the high numbers facing up to "train" the dice to favour those numbers, some will keep the low numbers facing up so the dice will become "bored" with showing "1"s all the time and will relish the opportunity, when rolled, to go in the opposite direction.
Long story short; people are morons.
Long story short; people are morons.
Agreed. It seems to me that most people know that superstitions are idiotic and useless, but partially believe them anyway. I'm not at all superstitious compared to most people, but I still can't help feeling that I need to roll "harder" for more important rolls, possibly while shouting a battlecry.
To contribute a superstition, I have one player who turns all of his dice to their maximum value when not in use. Either it's a bit of compulsive behaviour, or he's trying to train them to remember which way is the right way to land. Perhaps it's a bit of both.
I do that. It's because I like how they look that way. Since I want to sort my dice so I can always grab one of the right size I need, I figure I might as well turn 'em right way up while I'm at it.
(I also arrange my D6s in a little diamond pattern. Because I can.)
Go with brutal weapons, and avengers.
Khopesh IS rather neat, and new players would especially likely enjoy that re-roll, same with Executioner's Axe. It's likely feel like a bigger difference than it actually is.
When I DM, I have a specific set of dice I use, a set of ice blue frosted crystal dice that I bought about a year ago. They're no better than any other set I have, but I like the look of them more.
Whenever I roll a new character, I take out all my d6s (and I have almost 30), and roll them all at one. I then discard every dice that has rolled 1. I then roll the remaining dice again, discard the 1s and keep doing this until I only have 4d6 left (we roll 4d6 and discard lowest for character gen). This way I have the dice that are that night's high rollers.
Another way to look at that is that the dice that rolled 1's have gotton those 1's out of their system and are therefore less likely to roll them again. The other dice are still full of 1's and are bound to roll them soon.
I guess I don't have any particular dice superstitions, but it's a fun example of biased dice.
I have one player who turns all of his dice to their maximum value when not in use. Either it's a bit of compulsive behaviour, or he's trying to train them to remember which way is the right way to land. Perhaps it's a bit of both.
Yes, turning dice to their highest number when not in use is a rather common behaviour. As you said, some people do it from pure "compulsion" (e.g. "It looks tidier that way.") and others do it because they feel like they're "training" the dice to favour those numbers.
Such behaviour looks especially ridiculous, though, when you realise how common it also is for people to do the exact opposite. For every person who "stores" his dice with the highest numbers facing up, there's another who stores them with the "1"s facing up. Some people also do this from pure "compulsion" (e.g. "Now they all match!"); but some do it for similar superstitious reasons. While some will keep the high numbers facing up to "train" the dice to favour those numbers, some will keep the low numbers facing up so the dice will become "bored" with showing "1"s all the time and will relish the opportunity, when rolled, to go in the opposite direction.
Long story short; people are morons.
actually, i always keep my dice on ones. it isn't so that they'll get "bored" with the 1, it's just sort of a faulty use of statistics (that it's unlikely for a die to roll the same number twice). i understand the whole "dice have no memory" concept, but it makes me feel better. the human mind just isn't set up to accept the concept of a random system. we can know on an abstract level that there is no pattern, but our minds will find one anyway. and besides, we're playing a game about magical beasts and fantastic adventures; a little superstition about dice just doesn't seem that out of place.
Can you see how liberating it is not to believe in anything any more? Sure, the world's a less magical place, but at least I don't have to avoid stepping on cracks and say the right hoodoo to roll that 17-or-better I need. **** god, **** statistics, just roll the damn dice and get on with the ****ing game.
I'm playing online with a group of playmates, while playing a NPC character made its way into the group.
A Leader character, little girl, didn't even had a name when it came to the group.
The Playercharacters gave her a name, she came along on the adventure and everytime shes able to attack, she rolls massive damage and hits everytime.
She outrolls the striker sometimes and hits probably more often than our avenger its freaky.
She's being played by our second leader so no DMPC there.
I played a druid not too long ago in a (sort of) 3.5 campaign. He had a black bear companion. The druid himself very rarely rolled well on anything, but the bear more than made up for it, consistently outrolling everyone in the party. It's now a running joke in this group of friends that bears can fix any problem through brute force and carnage. Tough homework assignment? Summon the bear! Stuck at a long red light? Bears to the rescue! Girlfriend dumped you? You get the idea.
I guess I don't have any particular dice superstitions, but it's a fun example of biased dice.
By the way we have been so superstitious about dice that a certain high rolling die called Old Red has been repeatedly stolen back and forth, even 20 years later, I tried to lift that die just last month.
He placed the die on the block and on the very first swing, promptly missed the entire block and hit himself in the leg. ... He succeeded in chopping the die in two on the second swing though.
So he tried once, completely missed (since he'd probably never chopped wood in his life), nearly inflicted a grusome wound that might have resulted in amputation or death, and then promptly TRIED AGAIN?!
Between encounters or when doing something that doesn't require dice-rolling, we all try to stack our dice in the following order (from top to bottom):
d4
d6
d8
d10
Percentile die
d12
d20
All of the dice are turned with the highest number upwards and if we succeed in stacking the dice, we automatically crit during the first round of combat.
Player d20s soaked in cola roll 1s. DM d20s soaked in cola roll 20s. We learned this after he dropped his d20 into his mug and scored crits for the next few rounds. It hurt.
The odds of scoring a critical hit when you need it is proportional to the distance between you and the nearest animal combined with the amount of milk you've drunk within the last 24 hours (or so it seems)
Never roll on the paper! It will only end in tears. Seriously, whenever we play D&D, anyone who has a die roll onto their character sheet will invariably miss or roll minimum damage. So we don't do that anymore.
I also keep my dice organized in two specific bags. The World of Darkness d10s I own never stay in the same bag as my D&D dice.
And if you color in the high number on your dice, you roll better. It makes them lucky. I use an orange highlighter for this purpose, because orange stands out really well on the majority of dice that I own.
It is a fickle dice, when I am in a bad spot and need a 20 really bad, its the one I pick. In other situations, I never touch it.
I also have a set of limited edition pink speckly dice. I dont let anyone touch them but me, for fear of them losing their luck.
Although I know this isn't the point of your story, I couldn't help but gawk when I read the following:He placed the die on the block and on the very first swing, promptly missed the entire block and hit himself in the leg. ... He succeeded in chopping the die in two on the second swing though.
So he tried once, completely missed (since he'd probably never chopped wood in his life), nearly inflicted a grusome wound that might have resulted in amputation or death, and then promptly TRIED AGAIN?!
Maybe he had enough HP's to not be bothered by it.
Anyway...I had a player that would always "warm up" his D20 by making several training rolls, and also gently rotating it above a candle flame.
I'm beginning to get superstitious about my current D20
I took all my dice I had and rolled them many MANY times to try and figure out if any of them where "balanced" towards high numbers.
This is because I remembered back in the day I used to own a "cursed" die that noone would use because it always rolled high in combat (wich was a bad thing in that system, 20 was always a fumble)
But I couldnt quite remember wich one it was.
But extensive testing did provide me a good candidate.
A single die stood out from the rest, with an odd colour that had no matching set in my entire bag, and it rolled over the course of many "20 rolls" tests 15+ more than 50% of the time, and never less than three 20's per test run.
Armed with this "cursed" die the very next session I proceeded to roll nothing above 10 in combat and 4 20's in a row out of combat, when doing stuff like jumping across stagnant yucky pools of water, or rolling knowledge checks about monsters AFTER the fact that we allready killed them
Try rolling with your left hand. It kinda feels like somebody else is doing it.
Hahaha
My new superstition is that if you own most of the gaming supplies your group uses, you will roll low. No good deed goes unpunished. Reverse karma.
If you never contribute(monitarily) to the gaming group, you will roll uber stats and make lots of crits. This is just my personal experience. I'm probably just being paranoid. No wonder I end up being DM.
I can second this for being true. I own most of the miniatures and about 8 sets of dice, as well as several books. My friend is the DM this campaign and also owns a few miniatures, books and dice sets. The two other players in our campaign own nothing. We've only played twice so far, but between eight encounters, my friend has had absolutely appaling bad luck with monster rolls (both to hit and damage), and I've only rolled above 10 three times for to-hit rolls. Luckily I'm playing a rogue, so my bad luck isn't so bad. Meanwhile, the other two players have consistently rolled at least 1 crit each encounter, rarely miss on any given to hit, and haven't done more than 3 points under max damage.
As for my superstitions:
- If anyone else rolls my dice when they're doing well, they drain the luck from them.
- I don't roll dice outside of an encounter because I don't want to "waste" the good rolls (though I will sometimes roll them if I have hit a streak of bad luck in an effort to "get rid of" the bad rolls).
- If anything touches the dice while it's rolling (especially a person) it will come up with a bad roll.
- If you ever mention anything about the roll you need (i.e. Don't worry, I only need a 6!) you will fail that roll by 1.
Never touch the DM's dice. He'll just roll natural 20 after natural 20 for the rest of the session (or until you wash your dice).
In regards to the "Never let the DM touch your dice":
Never touch the DM's dice. He'll just roll natural 20 after natural 20 for the rest of the session (or until you wash your dice).
When I did that I couldn't roll above a 10 on mine. I swear his dice cursed me and I passed it on to mine lol.
In regards to the "Never let the DM touch your dice":
Never touch the DM's dice. He'll just roll natural 20 after natural 20 for the rest of the session (or until you wash your dice).
When I did that I couldn't roll above a 10 on mine. I swear his dice cursed me and I passed it on to mine lol.
In our case, if a player touches the DM's dice, it will make sure the DM never misses an attack and you can't hit, unless the d20 lands on the floor, which renders the roll "illegal" and it has to be rerolled.
If the d20 lands on the floor and you play with the same rule as mentioned right above, the d20 will be a Natural 20.
The highest number on your d20 decreases by 10 if you're using a ranged attack or opportunity attack and by 2 for each enemy within an area specified by an area attack. If this number will drop to 0, it is instead locked at 1 until you have "paid your debts" (until any excess penalties have been applied). If you borrow someone elses dice, his dice will have the same penalties as whatever amounts yours have stacked during the game session. Sadly, this seems to be true with our dice.
In regards to the "Never let the DM touch your dice":
Never touch the DM's dice. He'll just roll natural 20 after natural 20 for the rest of the session (or until you wash your dice).
When I did that I couldn't roll above a 10 on mine. I swear his dice cursed me and I passed it on to mine lol.
In our case, if a player touches the DM's dice, it will make sure the DM never misses an attack and you can't hit, unless the d20 lands on the floor, which renders the roll "illegal" and it has to be rerolled.
If the d20 lands on the floor and you play with the same rule as mentioned right above, the d20 will be a Natural 20.
The highest number on your d20 decreases by 10 if you're using a ranged attack or opportunity attack and by 2 for each enemy within an area specified by an area attack. If this number will drop to 0, it is instead locked at 1 until you have "paid your debts" (until any excess penalties have been applied). If you borrow someone elses dice, his dice will have the same penalties as whatever amounts yours have stacked during the game session. Sadly, this seems to be true with our dice.
Thats crazy lol. You're DM must be some sort of alien with mythical powers or something lol
In regards to the "Never let the DM touch your dice":
Never touch the DM's dice. He'll just roll natural 20 after natural 20 for the rest of the session (or until you wash your dice).
When I did that I couldn't roll above a 10 on mine. I swear his dice cursed me and I passed it on to mine lol.
In our case, if a player touches the DM's dice, it will make sure the DM never misses an attack and you can't hit, unless the d20 lands on the floor, which renders the roll "illegal" and it has to be rerolled.
If the d20 lands on the floor and you play with the same rule as mentioned right above, the d20 will be a Natural 20.
The highest number on your d20 decreases by 10 if you're using a ranged attack or opportunity attack and by 2 for each enemy within an area specified by an area attack. If this number will drop to 0, it is instead locked at 1 until you have "paid your debts" (until any excess penalties have been applied). If you borrow someone elses dice, his dice will have the same penalties as whatever amounts yours have stacked during the game session. Sadly, this seems to be true with our dice.
Thats crazy lol. You're DM must be some sort of alien with mythical powers or something lol
Meh, he's not an alien as far as we know. Our d20s, however, may be a completely different matter.
In regards to the "Never let the DM touch your dice":
Never touch the DM's dice. He'll just roll natural 20 after natural 20 for the rest of the session (or until you wash your dice).
When I did that I couldn't roll above a 10 on mine. I swear his dice cursed me and I passed it on to mine lol.
In our case, if a player touches the DM's dice, it will make sure the DM never misses an attack and you can't hit, unless the d20 lands on the floor, which renders the roll "illegal" and it has to be rerolled.
If the d20 lands on the floor and you play with the same rule as mentioned right above, the d20 will be a Natural 20.
The highest number on your d20 decreases by 10 if you're using a ranged attack or opportunity attack and by 2 for each enemy within an area specified by an area attack. If this number will drop to 0, it is instead locked at 1 until you have "paid your debts" (until any excess penalties have been applied). If you borrow someone elses dice, his dice will have the same penalties as whatever amounts yours have stacked during the game session. Sadly, this seems to be true with our dice.
Thats crazy lol. You're DM must be some sort of alien with mythical powers or something lol
Meh, he's not an alien as far as we know. Our d20s, however, may be a completely different matter.
Alien Dice? Yeah I've seen this before, first the rolls are all crazy, next thing you know you're sitting alone in the dark, halway through a bag of corn starch wondering how to link up with the mothership...not that I'd know anything about that mind you...
In regards to the "Never let the DM touch your dice":
Never touch the DM's dice. He'll just roll natural 20 after natural 20 for the rest of the session (or until you wash your dice).
When I did that I couldn't roll above a 10 on mine. I swear his dice cursed me and I passed it on to mine lol.
In our case, if a player touches the DM's dice, it will make sure the DM never misses an attack and you can't hit, unless the d20 lands on the floor, which renders the roll "illegal" and it has to be rerolled.
If the d20 lands on the floor and you play with the same rule as mentioned right above, the d20 will be a Natural 20.
The highest number on your d20 decreases by 10 if you're using a ranged attack or opportunity attack and by 2 for each enemy within an area specified by an area attack. If this number will drop to 0, it is instead locked at 1 until you have "paid your debts" (until any excess penalties have been applied). If you borrow someone elses dice, his dice will have the same penalties as whatever amounts yours have stacked during the game session. Sadly, this seems to be true with our dice.
Thats crazy lol. You're DM must be some sort of alien with mythical powers or something lol
Meh, he's not an alien as far as we know. Our d20s, however, may be a completely different matter.
Alien Dice? Yeah I've seen this before, first the rolls are all crazy, next thing you know you're sitting alone in the dark, halway through a bag of corn starch wondering how to link up with the mothership...not that I'd know anything about that mind you...
Meh, haven't been there yet. Worst thing we've experienced so far was failing every single d20-roll (i.e. rolling a 1) for an entire session. This is goddamn annoying when one of our game sessions start between 11.00 AM and 1.00 PM and last until 6.00 PM... that means 5-7 hours of failed rolls.
I set all my dice to 1 when they sit on the table. The logic is that it's unlikely that they'll land on a 1 again if they're already sitting on one.
I've done that before too! I honestly forgot about it until you reminded me lol. I stopped because I figured they'd get too used to being the 1 side up :P
One of my players seems to think that the longer he shakes the die/dice in his hands, the better it will roll. Needless to say, there are times this gets really, really tedious as we all just stare at him for over a minute while he plays with the dice during a tough fight (which most are).
Time to introduce a shot clock.
He just seems to roll bad numbers when it matters the most.
Yes, that's a common source of superstition and false belief.
When certain events are more "important" or more "emotionally charged" then people seem to remember them better. Over time, this causes people to recall more of the important event outcomes than the unimportant ones and, because they can recall those events more easily and clearly, they tend to assume that the outcomes of those events are more likely than they truly are.
So if a certain die has failed you on several memorable occasions, there's a tendency to think the die is particularly likely to roll poorly; even if, as a matter of fact, it actually has a tendency to roll particularly well. The problem is that you don't remember all the mundane, routine occasions on which it worked; you only remember the few occasions when a roll meant life or death and it just happened to fail.
As an aside, this is also why many people have the grotesquely inaccurate belief that airplanes are more dangerous than automobiles. Thousands upon thousands of people are injured or killed in automobile accidents every year; but because those are so mundane people don't notice or remember. Yet when a single airplane crashes, it's treated as front-page international news. So people are able to recall airplane crashes much easier than their infrequency would imply and, therefore, think they're far more common than they truly are.
And, as a further aside, when an event is super-duper-emotionally-charged you get a related effect called "flashbulb memory". When this occurs, people tend to remember not only the event in question; but also the time, place, circumstances, and details in which they experienced it. Events like the Kennedy Assassination and the World Trade Center Attacks fall into this category - most people can remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they first heard news of these occurances.
1) Purchase dice only on a day of the week with an "a" in it.
2) Before entering your home with your new dice you must walk around your house in a clockwise circle three times.
3) Never use your dice until they have been properly blessed. To do this, bury your dice in the dirt near your home until the full moon. After dark, on the night of the full moon, dig them up, and place them in the center of a circle of candles. The candles must exactly match the color of the new dice or else be white or purple. Smudge the dice with an incense composed of fennel, basil, sage and mandrake. Light the candles (oh migosh, you didn't LIGHT them already, did you?) and pray to the Luck deity of your chosen D&D campaign.
Raise the dice to each of the cardinal directional points and then to the full moon. Intone the name of your Luck deity seven times. NOW comes the test! Roll each die. If that die rolls the highest number possible, you may use it. If that die rolls a 1 you must travel to the nearest active volcano and fling it in. Otherwise that die must be buried until the next full moon and the ritual performed again. WARNING: NEVER EVER perform this ritual during a month with less than 28 days! Remember, you've been warned!
4) Your dice should always be kept in a velvet pouch with pure 100% silk lining. Failing this, your backpack, purse or jacket pocket will do.
5) Never roll your dice until the first instance that the DM commands. Premature rolling flouts the gods of LUCK.
6) If you get new, prettier dice, your other dice will get jealous. To appease them, place them in a jar, fill the jar halfway with milk, soda or beer and take three umbrella steps, intoning the name of the Luck God/dess of your campaign. Then fill the rest of the jar with potato chips or cheetos. Doritos will not work!
That's hilarious! +2 lols!
I personally own two of each type of dice so that if one is having a "bad day" I can switch to the other one and get better rolls. There have been days when both sets of dice have given me bad rolls; on those days I just curse the random number gods.
I set all my dice to 1 when they sit on the table. The logic is that it's unlikely that they'll land on a 1 again if they're already sitting on one.
I just tried this during today's game session. Scary thing: I rolled about five times as many Natural 20s as I normally do. I think I'm going to go buy some more dice, so I have one for each of my attacks...
Our DM was so kind that he allowed us to take some Magic Crossbow Turrets from a dungeon and fasten them to my Tenser's Floating Disk (he ruled that they will disappear when the disk disappears and they will reappear attached to the disk when I summon it again). That and my Mage Hands (thanks to Staff of Spectral Hands) that are each allowed to hold a weapon or shield. Those extra 2d8+5 damage per turret (because we enchanted the turrets. normally they only deal 2d8+3 damage) and my three Mage Hands that each deal 1d8+my strength modifier (0) damage, is still acceptable, yet it takes some time to roll those 6d20s each turn. But then, I guess it's quite okay to deal a potential 7d8+10 extra damage each turn, even if it means I'll have to roll those 6d20.
Our DM was so kind that he allowed us to take some Magic Crossbow Turrets from a dungeon and fasten them to my Tenser's Floating Disk (he ruled that they will disappear when the disk disappears and they will reappear attached to the disk when I summon it again). That and my Mage Hands (thanks to Staff of Spectral Hands) that are each allowed to hold a weapon or shield. Those extra 2d8+5 damage per turret (because we enchanted the turrets. normally they only deal 2d8+3 damage) and my three Mage Hands that each deal 1d8+my strength modifier (0) damage, is still acceptable, yet it takes some time to roll those 6d20s each turn. But then, I guess it's quite okay to deal a potential 7d8+10 extra damage each turn, even if it means I'll have to roll those 6d20.
Your DM is letting you use a ritual and a cantrip to get five extra attacks a round.
You don't actually *need* any dice luck
Our DM was so kind that he allowed us to take some Magic Crossbow Turrets from a dungeon and fasten them to my Tenser's Floating Disk (he ruled that they will disappear when the disk disappears and they will reappear attached to the disk when I summon it again). That and my Mage Hands (thanks to Staff of Spectral Hands) that are each allowed to hold a weapon or shield. Those extra 2d8+5 damage per turret (because we enchanted the turrets. normally they only deal 2d8+3 damage) and my three Mage Hands that each deal 1d8+my strength modifier (0) damage, is still acceptable, yet it takes some time to roll those 6d20s each turn. But then, I guess it's quite okay to deal a potential 7d8+10 extra damage each turn, even if it means I'll have to roll those 6d20.
Your DM is letting you use a ritual and a cantrip to get five extra attacks a round.
You don't actually *need* any dice luck
You're right about me not *needing* any dice luck. It still is nice enough to have though. Besides, if it helps me roll crits, why should I complain?
Still, dealing a potential 7d8+10 bonus damage from separate attacks that don't consume my Standard Action is pretty nice.
There was a session where one player rolled nothing higher than a ten (on a D20) all night. He then threw the die into the fireplace's glowing embers, dug it out and froze it for a week.
He rolled twelve twenties that session.
My friends and I belive in dice punishment.
There was a session where one player rolled nothing higher than a ten (on a D20) all night. He then threw the die into the fireplace's glowing embers, dug it out and froze it for a week.
He rolled twelve twenties that session.
Well, yeah. That's what happens when you melt your die into a gumdrop-shaped lump of slag with a deformed '20' on the top.
There was a session where one player rolled nothing higher than a ten (on a D20) all night.
I went through one combat with my Warlord, where the highest roll I got in the entire combat was on a d6. Three different d20s never managed to give me above a 4, so I never got to find out what my damage dice would do.
Next combat, same dice were fine.
I've found that lining your D20s in front of a TV and playing a good nerdy show or movie (Doctor Who, Firefly, The Gamers, etc.) gives them a short-term boost.
Well, yeah. That's what happens when you melt your die into a gumdrop-shaped lump of slag with a deformed '20' on the top.
Oddly enough, it was perfectly fine.
My first game I was rolling badly. Frustrated, I swapped to this deep, chocolate brown d20 I had from somewhere. Someone teasingly asked me if I was swapping d20s because I was superstitious about my dice. I grinned, held up the brown d20 and said, "No. This die used to roll crappy for me years ago until I got so mad I swallowed it to show it what crappy really meant. It took 2 weeks to get it back. It used to be green. Now when my other dice start rolling bad, I pull ol' Crappy out to remind of the penalty for failure."
They laughed, but I'm not sure a few understood I was only joking around.
So, now I have this brown d20 from who knows where, with a made up story of punishment. The kicker? It really does seem to roll better than my other d20s. I only use it for initiative and after I've rolled more than 2 misses/failures in a row. Then it comes out, makes a good roll, and the other dice fall into line when someone at the table inevitably comments on ol' Crappy's punishment.
A joke about superstition actually tuerned into one for me.
Another story, while not based on superstition, was this weird yellow d20 I found in the old dice box. I decided to use it the next game I DM'd for my kids. I couldn't roll out of single digits until I swapped d20s. I decided to give it another chance at my LFR game later that week. Again, the highest I rolled was a 10. (It was not so bad as I was playing a charisma rogue and was still hitting on low rolls and social skills. Though I did swap out for ol' Crappy about halfway through the game.)
The kicker to this story was the following weekend I was prepping for my home game with the kids when I decided to try that yellow d20 again. I pre-rolled 20 times without rolling over a 10. Then I noticed the damn thing only went up to 10 ... twice! *facepalm*
Now I only use it when I DM and want to "fudge" a roll or two in my kid's game. ;)
I love y'all. And it's fun to play-act superstitions during the game.
But y'all are being ironic, right? I mean, magic isn't real.
I love y'all. And it's fun to play-act superstitions during the game.
But y'all are being ironic, right? I mean, magic isn't real.
I believe that as well, but apparently some people have a deep psychological investment in superstition and really do believe they can influence dice in some way.
I have hardwood floors and in the corner where I DM and in one section, between two boards, there is a slight gap. I have an over-sized d10 that I use for important battles where I want to win initiative and if I roll the die so that it crosses The Crack I have about an 80% chance of winning initiative. If the die does not cross The Crack I will almost alwasy lose initiative.
Unfortunately my group has figured this out. They have also figured out that if the stamp their feet on the floor when I roll that my success rate goes down to normal. So, I often have to be sneaky when I decide that I want to win initiative.
And just to clarify, we play in my living room around my coffee table (which is also the food table!) and I often sit on the floor in one corner so that my cat can sleep on my lap more comfortably than she can if I am sitting in a chair.