Dice superstitions

[Ry]

Personally, I've got the "just rolled low, now I'll roll high" bug, but one of my players has taken to rolling six or seven times before each roll until he gets something low, to "reset the die"

The phrase "using up the probability" escapes our lips often as well - especially when we roll high on irrelevant tasks.

THe best part is we've all were once math & engineering majors.

What's the best dice superstition you've run into with your group?

 

[Evilhalfling]

One player sticks d20's in his ear to "charge them up"
no one else has tried it but if he gets a streak of bad luck, other players will ask him to charge up his dice.

 

[The Lemon Merchant]

I put misbehaving dice in a timeout box, and I make sure that all my other dice can see that it is being punished. I also try to make sure that all my dice are sitting with their highest roll face up (expect for the d4's of course).

One of the guys I used to game with broke a misbehaving d20 with a hammer and would keep it in his dice bag as an example to all the other dice.

 

[Rabelais]

I only use new dice. About once a year or so I go to my FLGS and buy a couple of sets of new dice, retire or destroy the old ones and go on from there.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

I only use new dice. About once a year or so I go to my FLGS and buy a couple of sets of new dice, retire or destroy the old ones and go on from there.

ACK!! Don't destroy them...mail them to me!!!! I'm serious!!!

My superstition is my inability to "mix" sets. All the dice I use in a game session must come from a complete set.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

My dice must be arranged in set lines, in descending order (d20, d12, d10, etc) with the highest number showing. This trains the dice to roll high.

My three white Chainmail d20s are only to be used to crit PCs, since they seem to deliver natural 20s on demand -- except when monsters are rolling saving throws, of course.

 

[Lars Porsenna]

I've had such hideous luck with clutch rolls I'm not "allowed" to touch anyone else's dice, even to borrow them! We have a new member in the group, though, and whenever he plays I roll from average to hot. We theorize that that bad luck is naturally attracted to a vacuum, and it just so happens he has a greater rarity of it...

Our DM has a glow-in-the-dark D20 that tends to roll well (for him). And...well, just look at the "quote of the night" at this location: http://www.nuketown.com/griff/templates/saga.php?id=272

Damon.

 

[arscott]

Since the d10 isn't a platonic solid, it's imperfect. It's better to roll a d20 and drop the first digit.

 

[Crothian]

I roll dice until they fail me, then they get put in withthe bad dice who "straighten the offending die out" peer pressure is not just for smoking anymore.

 

[Altalazar]

I have my own "character" dice that I use when I play, special sets I buy just for that purpose. I use different dice when I DM.

I played with someone who had a bag full of random dice assortments, and he'd always just grab one at random when he had to roll something, after dumping them all out on the table. I'd say that is the opposite of superstition - he didn't care what die he rolled.