Ever see a Strengh 18/00 rolled legitimately?

[noffham]

Seen it twice. Once was my 3rd ever character Noffham. A big, bluff, fun-loving fighter on the model of Fafhrd.

Then one DM had a trapped room with a machine that changed alll your stats to the average of what you rolled. So he ended up with all stats at 12. That's the day I retired him.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

Only when generating a character for Baldur's Gate.

 

[dagger]

Yes I have seen it rolled in 1e and have done it my self...

I also rolled for Psionics in 1e and got ALL 100's...what are the odds of that!!

 

[Mark Hope]

Once. I did it on my second AD&D character ever (a paladin) back in 1984, in front of the DM. Only played the character a few times over the years, though. Think I retired him around level 8 or something.

I once saw my sister roll 18, 18, 18, 17, 16, 16 for an assassin she was playing. Totally outrageous. She only played the character for a bit, though, claiming it was "boring", heh

 

[Herschel]

I did it once. The character made it to fifth level, and was crit by a goblin chucking a spear center mass. So much for that character.

I also had a fighter with an 18/94 at ninth level and he was teleported with the wizard in to solid rock. Maybe my favorite character ever.

 

[mach1.9pants]

Yeah at my boarding school were 3 or so of us played DnD all the time we had pretty much every guy in our year (plus others) try it out for a bit. The biggest guy in our year, a monster of a rugby player, rolled 18-00... very appropriate

He only played a couple of times.

 

[Storminator]

Never saw one, and we had some "generous" rules. 4d6 drop low, arrange, make PCs until you got an 18, two 17s or three 16s+. Our PC generation sessions saw such witty banter as; "I just rolled up a baker!" and "you just rolled up the town drunk."

Sometime we rolled up entire villages before we ended up with PCs.

25 years later my son "rolled" up a party of 4 PCs. No stat among the 4 less than 12, every PC with an 18 except the guy with two 17s. I told him I knew he was cheating. He denied it. I pulled out my ancient binder of PCs and showed the characters I "rolled" when I was 12... We bonded.

PS

 

[Diamond Cross]

Three different times in about four years of play witnessed by the entire group because we all decided to roll stats in front of everybody to prevent cheating.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

It just occurred to me that 18/00s were kept artificially low to a certain extent- only warriors made that roll. And, as I recall, certain races and even genders couldn't roll for extraordinary strength, either.

 

[Wednesday Boy]

(Best I ever did was 18/92, unless you count my half-ogre PC. Half-ogres got a big bonus -- forget what it was -- on the d% roll.)

In 2nd Ed. half-ogres strength was 1d6+13 with a 6 treated as 18(00) strength and on a 5 rolled normally for extraordinary strength. That's the only way I legitimately had a 18(00) strength character.