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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 4627171" data-attributes="member: 58197">As evidence for the above streakish behavior, my gaming group includes a player whose bad luck with the d20s is really amazing.&nbsp; He rolls these endless strings of low single-digit numbers, week after week.It got so bad that I gave him the option to &quot;reverse&quot; his rolls in my campaign.&nbsp; Before rolling, he can declare a given roll to be reversed; he rolls, then takes the number on the d20 and subtracts it from 21 to get his actual result (so a 1 on the die is treated as a 20, a 2 on the die is treated as a 19, et cetera). Doesn't make any difference statistically speaking, but it does give him a way to feel like he's fighting back.The funny thing was, right about the time he started reversing rolls, the bad streak ended and his dice began exhibiting the usual range of highs and lows in my game. He still suffers from the problem in other campaigns though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 4627171, member: 58197"] As evidence for the above streakish behavior, my gaming group includes a player whose bad luck with the d20s is really amazing. He rolls these endless strings of low single-digit numbers, week after week. It got so bad that I gave him the option to "reverse" his rolls in my campaign. Before rolling, he can declare a given roll to be reversed; he rolls, then takes the number on the d20 and subtracts it from 21 to get his actual result (so a 1 on the die is treated as a 20, a 2 on the die is treated as a 19, et cetera). Doesn't make any difference statistically speaking, but it does give him a way to feel like he's fighting back. The funny thing was, right about the time he started reversing rolls, the bad streak ended and his dice began exhibiting the usual range of highs and lows in my game. He still suffers from the problem in other campaigns though. [/QUOTE]

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