D&D 5E Best rolls I have ever got

Horwath · Mar 3, 2021

Oofta said:
Funny thing is, the player with the super awesome stats committed suicide by goblin because she felt so guilty. She ran into a goblin horde solo obviously committing suicide while looking at the player with the poor stats. The DM never caught on that there was an issue.

/salute

Bacon Bits · Mar 3, 2021

Best rolls I ever got were rolled 4d6 drop lowest for a 1e campaign:

18/76
17
15
15
13
10

A nearly perfect Paladin, and one of the few I saw rolled legit. Honestly, they may have spotted me the 17 for Cha when I rolled a 16, but I don't think so. They may have after the other 5 rolls. I don't remember that actual percentile roll, either, just that it was the 76% category. We did ability rolls and then ended session 0. I made the Paladin, went to the first session, and then learned that the campaign had been changed to be evil-only. I elected to keep my Paladin for a later campaign and rolled a new character.

I didn't get to play my Paladin for another 2-3 years. It was in a different campaign with a different DM in a different town. Nobody witnessed the character's creation in the new campaign, but they let me play him all the same. I wasn't even the PC with the best stats in that game! Ended up as one of my favorite PCs ever. Played him about 3-4 years from level 1 to level 15. We switched to 3e around level 9 or 10 since it was brand new.

It became a schtick for my character to be hit by disintegrate and survive. I successfully saved vs disintegrate at least 10 times during the campaign. The running joke was that my character was so charismatic because of the routine exfoliation from disintegrate. Under 3e rules, the character had an obnoxious Fort save. At level 10 it would've been at least a +14.

R_J_K75 · Mar 3, 2021

iserith said:
I rolled 18/00 every time nobody was watching.

If youre not cheating youre not trying.

Blackrat · Mar 3, 2021

I’ve rolled 18, 18, 18, 5, 5, 3... That was the first time our DM agreed upon a reroll...

DND_Reborn · Mar 3, 2021

Sacrosanct said:
No no no. It's always 18/76%.

Bacon Bits said:
18/76

Hey, @Sacrosanct, you were right!

fearsomepirate · Mar 3, 2021

One of my players rolled 47 damage on a Fireball...7 6's and a 5.

delericho · Mar 3, 2021

I watched someone 'roll' an 18/18/18/17/14/10 using 4d6 drop lowest. The reason I say 'roll' is that the 17 was followed by the 18s in sequence, and the player didn't exactly lift the dice very far each time. So it wasn't so much a roll as a drop. Additionally, despite it being a 3e game, the DM applied the old BECMI rule that you could trade stats on a 2-for-1 basis, so the eventual character had four 18s, a 12, and a 10.

Sure enough, there was a player in the same group got saddled with crap stats (not me).

The character did see play, but only for one session. I've told that story before - it was going to be a Ravenloft campaign, the DM said that he'd like people to take it reasonably seriously... and then one of the players named her character Jigglypuff. And that was the end of that.

Paul Farquhar · Mar 3, 2021

Stotties are my best rolls.

TarionzCousin · Mar 3, 2021

Sacrosanct said:
The best legit rolls I ever got was rolling 18/00 strength and 100% for psionics back in the early 90s. Never ended up playing the PC though....

Paul? Is that you?

I played in an Evil PC Dark Sun 2E campaign with one other player. He rolled 18/00 Strength and Psionics. We used alternate character rules from the DMG, so he was a hybrid Fighter/Wizard badass.

Oh, he was also rich. We had to spend about ten hours journeying into the badlands to recover his family fortune, but after that I made his character pay for everything.

auburn2 · Mar 3, 2021

Oofta said:
Especially when 1 person at the table rolls truly amazing and another person rolls crap*. Especially when you explained before making characters that you hate rolling and could you pretty please just use point buy and the DM says no. Then the DM laughs at the player with the piss poor character scores and just says "It's fair because we all rolled".

*Yes, true story. No the crap character was not mine.

Back in the 80s before point buy existed this was the normal at the table and we still had fun. Even published modules were like this with pregen characters and 1 fighter has an 18xx S and another has a 13.

We still had fun.