Dice Mojo Rituals

[Rechan]

As Gamers, we are at the whims of luck and probability. Dice, our tools, are woefully fickle and can have streaks of bad luck.

What do you do with your dice to keep the luck good?

What do you do if the rolls go cold, and how do you get the mojo back?

 

[Jack99]

I have a special blue d20 that I have been rolling to hits with for over 18 years. It never fails me when I really need it, as long as I keep it far far away from poison saves. If I use it for that, it is sure to fail me. Every time

 

[Scribble]

I generally like to keep all my attacking dice with the high numbers up so all the mojo sits at the bottom, and load it to roll high.

When they start rolling low, I'll switch off because I know all that mojo's been getting mixed up too much and isn't loading the dice anymore.

I do the opposite for the dice I need to roll low with.


I don't do this when DMing for fairness to the players, but I do tend to have certain "go to" dice.


One of my players has taken to rubbing his dice on his power card whenever he wants some luck.

(Generally he does this when using promise of storm, because he tends to under deliver on that promise quite a bit... which is embarrassing for him...)

 

[weem]

I don't do anything special.

I DO have 2 d20's... one I have had since I was 12 (I'm almost 33 now) and then the second is whatever the most recently purchased one is. I tend to move back and forth between them depending on previous rolls, etc.

 

[El Mahdi]

...Tempt the Wrath of the Whatever From High Atop the Thing...

The West Wing Mojo Maintenance Ritual
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4rigI3FkwE"]YouTube - The West Wing - The wrath from high atop the thing[/ame]


"...spit three times and curse."

 

[darjr]

My kid had this elvish d20 from q-workshop and free rpg day. It disappeared. A few months later I was digging in the freezer and out dropped that d20.

He put it in there hoping that it would 'learn' that 20's should appear more often.

One other time a friend and I went through my households collection of small soup pots to find the right one to boil his dice.

None of it works. It was fun.

 

[weem]

My kid had this elvish d20 from q-workshop and free rpg day. It disappeared. A few months later I was digging in the freezer and out dropped that d20.

He put it in there hoping that it would 'learn' that 20's should appear more often.

One other time a friend and I went through my households collection of small soup pots to find the right one to boil his dice.

None of it works. It was fun.

Boiling dice? Oh great thanks, now you have me wanting to microwave them.....

 

[darjr]

I'd almost forgot about microwaves and dice....


That's a painful experiment. Wear goggles.

 

[Thasmodious]

A friend of mine, years ago, was betrayed by his lucky d20, so he crushed it into powder in a mortal & pestle, poured it into his Mt. Dew and drank it in front of his other dice. One of the crazier things I've seen. D&D related at least.

That story even won me a set of dice from a contest Chatty DM ran late last year - Chatty's Blog. And the dice from Game Master Dice are very nice.

 

[kitsune9]

As Gamers, we are at the whims of luck and probability. Dice, our tools, are woefully fickle and can have streaks of bad luck.

What do you do with your dice to keep the luck good?

What do you do if the rolls go cold, and how do you get the mojo back?

Well, in ye olde times, I would just switch dice in hoping that changing dice would bring more luck. I have players who hold onto that philosophy big time.

Nowadays, since I run, I just roll with whatever pops up though the last session, my dice were haaaaawt. I was critting left and right on the players. Good times. Good times.