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<blockquote data-quote="SpiralBound" data-source="post: 1965872" data-attributes="member: 8396">I won't chime in with another statement of my views because barsoomcore pretty much slam-dunked every point I was going to make.&nbsp; However, as an interesting aside, here's the story of &quot;Nat 20 Harry&quot;.&nbsp; Harry is a guy that I've occasionally played 2nd Ed D&amp;D with and some friends in common who've played more with him always refer to him as &quot;Nat 20 Harry&quot; when he plays.&nbsp; They told me that while he didn't cheat, he always got a nat 20 when he REALLY needed it.Now, before playing with him I always assumed that this was exaggeration on their part to make the story better.&nbsp; Of course he would get the same averages of dice values as anyone else, why wouldn't he?&nbsp; Then I played with him.&nbsp; Sure enough, his rolls were the same as anyone elses 90% of the time, but whenever it was at a most dangerous or dramatic point in the story and it was basically a &quot;do or die&quot; situation for him, he would usually get a nat 20.&nbsp; Why? Beats me...&nbsp; His die rolls were out in the open, he didn't consistently use a &quot;special&quot; die.&nbsp; Heck, the GM got frustrated with him once and demanded that the rolls be with the GM's dice in the middle of the table.&nbsp; Nothing seemed to matter.&nbsp; When he really needed a nat 20, it was usually there.Now, I'm not suggesting that this is what is happening with your female player.&nbsp; I just figured that this would be an interesting story to throw in here with the other posts. Harry is the only person I've ever even heard of who can pull stuff like that, and to this day I'm not sure just how he can beat the averages like that.&nbsp; We're always telling him he should go to Vegas or something. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="SpiralBound, post: 1965872, member: 8396"] I won't chime in with another statement of my views because barsoomcore pretty much slam-dunked every point I was going to make. However, as an interesting aside, here's the story of "Nat 20 Harry". Harry is a guy that I've occasionally played 2nd Ed D&D with and some friends in common who've played more with him always refer to him as "Nat 20 Harry" when he plays. They told me that while he didn't cheat, he always got a nat 20 when he REALLY needed it. Now, before playing with him I always assumed that this was exaggeration on their part to make the story better. Of course he would get the same averages of dice values as anyone else, why wouldn't he? Then I played with him. Sure enough, his rolls were the same as anyone elses 90% of the time, but whenever it was at a most dangerous or dramatic point in the story and it was basically a "do or die" situation for him, he would usually get a nat 20. Why? Beats me... His die rolls were out in the open, he didn't consistently use a "special" die. Heck, the GM got frustrated with him once and demanded that the rolls be with the GM's dice in the middle of the table. Nothing seemed to matter. When he really needed a nat 20, it was usually there. Now, I'm not suggesting that this is what is happening with your female player. I just figured that this would be an interesting story to throw in here with the other posts. Harry is the only person I've ever even heard of who can pull stuff like that, and to this day I'm not sure just how he can beat the averages like that. We're always telling him he should go to Vegas or something. :-) [/QUOTE]

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