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2014-08-05, 07:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2013
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- Red Dragon Territory
Dice Fall, Enemy Rocks (Or, How to get revenge on a malevolent number generator.)
Our group has a number generator which is tsundere most of the time, which we can live with, and another one which, during a miniboss fight, decided Mr. Corrupted Unseelie Fae Dude was too good to roll anything less than a 16 on a d20, throughout the entire fight, which would have probably resulted in a TPK if the DM hadn't reminded me I still had a hero point left to not get hit from full toughness to being knocked out.
So, Playground: Have you ever had experiences with a die which wanted you to, well, die? What did you do about it?
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2014-08-05, 08:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2013
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- St. Louis, MO
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Re: Dice Fall, Enemy Rocks (Or, How to get revenge on a malevolent number generator.)
Crushed it with a table vice while the rest of the dice were splayed out on my workbench. Let them know that if any of them were to fail me this would happen to them. Rolling 5 1's in a row during a boss fight will do that to a guy.
This does remind me that there's currently a dice shaming tumblr, funny to read through.
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2014-08-05, 05:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2013
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- Red Dragon Territory
Re: Dice Fall, Enemy Rocks (Or, How to get revenge on a malevolent number generator.)
O: I've seen a couple of posts ("I left my owner on fire for five turns and then failed a save vs. petrification") but not the tumblr itself. Can I have a link? :D
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2014-08-05, 05:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2012
Re: Dice Fall, Enemy Rocks (Or, How to get revenge on a malevolent number generator.)
Here is a link
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2014-08-05, 05:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2013
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- St. Louis, MO
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Re: Dice Fall, Enemy Rocks (Or, How to get revenge on a malevolent number generator.)
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2014-08-06, 10:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2010
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- Dallas, TX
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Re: Dice Fall, Enemy Rocks (Or, How to get revenge on a malevolent number generator.)
The purpose of dice is to give an uncontrollable, unpredictable result. You bought them specifically so you would have no control over the result. The game uses them precisely to give you no control over the result. That’s why there is so much effort spent trying to control the result.
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2014-08-06, 10:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2012
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2014-08-06, 11:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2009
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- City of Culture TM
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Re: Dice Fall, Enemy Rocks (Or, How to get revenge on a malevolent number generator.)
Tsun also hates her knowing, anything, at all.
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2014-08-06, 01:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2005
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- Lincoln
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Re: Dice Fall, Enemy Rocks (Or, How to get revenge on a malevolent number generator.)
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2014-08-06, 03:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2013
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- Red Dragon Territory
Re: Dice Fall, Enemy Rocks (Or, How to get revenge on a malevolent number generator.)
Yeah, I consistently roll below a 10 across dozens of perception checks, intuition checks, and similar rolls. I think I've rolled above a ten maybe three or four times with this roller.
The other roller we ditched after it almost caused the TPK, but will be using it for a 3.5 game soon. Perhaps I'll smash a d20 in front of my laptop as warning.
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2014-08-06, 09:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2008
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Re: Dice Fall, Enemy Rocks (Or, How to get revenge on a malevolent number generator.)
One of my friends owns a d20 that never seems to roll below an 18 when he's running games. His wife now has a habit of taking and hiding that particular die whenever he's going to run a game.
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2014-08-07, 02:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2013
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- Cloudcuckooland
Re: Dice Fall, Enemy Rocks (Or, How to get revenge on a malevolent number generator.)
I have a soulless black die of doom. I've put it through rigorous roll testing and it came up pretty neutral. However when I DM with it and only when I DM with it, it does nasty things to pcs. It killed a character, who thankfully wanted to roll a new character, it triple critted with 3 nat 20s (thankfully only a freshly summoned minion), it killed off one characters pet hydra and killed two more characters who were immediately revived by last breath, and the enemies were just generally lucky. Even without the killer die, that campaign was pretty grueling. but at least i think the players felt accomplished afterwards.
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2014-08-07, 03:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2011
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- The Middle of Nowhere
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Re: Dice Fall, Enemy Rocks (Or, How to get revenge on a malevolent number generator.)
When my GM pulls out his tiny, teal dice, you know **** is serious.
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2014-08-07, 03:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2013
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- Red Dragon Territory
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