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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GeorgeFields" data-source="post: 3399079" data-attributes="member: 12618">I've had a few dice throwers in my days. None were in real anger. THey were just miffed at bad rolls. I remember telling Mike that he would only miss on a "1". He rolled a 1. TWICE in the same session. I found his d20 a week later and added it to my collection. I offered it back, but he didn't want it.Another time, back in 2e. My brother-in-law, Thad,  and I have been gaming together since 1980. OVer 90% of the time, one of us was the DM. I had just gone though my wife leaving and my kids moving 8 hours away. I decided to take a break from gaming for a while, but he started a new campaign.I was over visiting on game day one weekend. "Johnny" was playing a thief / wizard (level 8-9?) and had drawn  the deck of many things card to advance a level if he overcame the next foe singe-handedly. He goes off by himself to find his foe and advance his "free" level.Thad rolled a random encounter and came up with half a dozen or so stirges: easy fireball meat. "Johnny" grins happily as Thad rolls his eyes and asks him to roll for surprise. By sheer chance, he's surprised, and the stirges get a free round on him.I don't know what kind of steroids Thad had given his dice, but every one of them attached and started sucking the blood from the character. A lost initiative roll later, and the wizard was dead, drained completely of blood."Johnny" immediately starts complaining how the entire thing was unfair and is quitting as he's packing his books in his bag. After 20 minutes, he's made it five feet from the table, bookbag in hand, still arguing with Thad about the whole thing.Eventually, so not to lose a player, Thad suggests to go back and redo the same encounter.I really couldn't believe the whole situation.A few years later, "Johnny" dropped out of our computer blood bowl league because I killed his two toughest characters in back-to-back rounds.</blockquote>

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