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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 4977762" data-attributes="member: 13703">I have a player in my group, Garry, whose lack of luck in regards to dice rolling is well documented.  If everyone in my group rolled as bad as Garry did there would have been several TPK's by now.  I know that you can often start having selective memory when someone seems to roll really well or really bad.  However everyone in my gaming group would definitely agree that Garry seems to roll a lot more low numbers than he does high numbers.It even got to the point where another player gave him a completely new set of dice to have since his set were obviously "broken"!  The new dice don't seemed to have helped though.  He has just tainted the new dice with his cursed luck!At the moment in my Shackled City AP campaign he is playing a Fighter/Warblade.  He has taken a couple of manoeuvres that basically try and make up for his crappy luck.  One allows him to swap out one of his saves (I forget which one) for a Concentration check.  The first time he used it he rolled a 2 for his Concentration check and still failed the saving throw (despite maxing out his ranks in Concentration!).Another manoeuvre he took allows him to re-roll a missed attack as well as giving a further +2 to that re-rolled attack.  The group has since re-named that manoeuvre "The Garry Manoeuvre" in his honour! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  He used that manoeuvre for the first time in last night's session.  He did manage to turn a missed attack in to a hit.  However I then reminded him that he forgot to add in his Haste and Bless bonuses to his attack, so his previous roll would have hit anyway! <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />On his first save for the night he rolled a 3 for his Reflex save and took the full force of a lightening bolt.  A little later in the night the party was fighting a Huge Fire Elemental and was having a lot of difficultly with it.  An NPC cast Cone of Cold on it and, as I was busy looking up something, I got one of the players to roll a save for it.  Garry, thinking he would help the party out by rolling poorly for the monsters, rolled.The result?  You guessed it, he rolled a Natural 20!Everyone at the table pissed themselves laughing.  So loudly that Garry's teenage daughter came down and asked us to keep the noise down a little! <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/blush.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":blush:" title="Blush    :blush:" data-shortname=":blush:" />Despite his horrible luck, he takes all his poor rolls in very good humour and is one of the nicest persons (if not the nicest person) that I have played with in all my years of gaming.  I've only once seen him get a little bit frustrated about his poor rolling in the 3 years that I've been gaming with him.  Any other person I've gamed with (including myself) would have completely lost it at least a couple of time now!So does your group have someone that just can't seem to roll well and no-one will let that player touch their dice for fear of them cursing them?  Or is it yourself perhaps that is the jinxed one?  Share your stories of poor dice rolls and bad luck.Olaf the Stout</blockquote>

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