Ever have a session like this?

[Quickbeam]

I'm glad to see that silliness such as probability theory, statistics, and percentage chance are properly dispensed with herein . These dice have not yet reach retired worship status, but another session or two like Friday and they might...

And I will repeat this for those of you who claim to have cursed dice -- stop buying them for yourself. Ask to receive dice as stocking stuffers this Xmas; they make a perfect last night of Hanukkah present; they're good choices as extra throw-ins for your birthday; they beat the heck out of chocolate or flowers; and what's more romantic than dice?!? Seriously, gift dice just work better. It's a karma thing IMO.

 

[Jeph]

Here's a way to increase competition among your dice, so that they strive for better results!

Every time a die is rolled, give it an X. Every time it is rolled and shows the highest possible result, give it an X and an O. Keep track of each die type on a speperate sheet of paper.

At the end of a gaming session, take the die with the most Os from each die type, and put it in the Place Of Exalted Dice That Get Lots Of Special Stuff Like Candy And Attention (POEDTHLOSSLCAA). Make sure the dice in the POEDTHLOSSLCAA are very happy.

Your dice will strive to outperform each other, and thus win a seat in the POEDTHLOSSLCAA! And remember, a happy die is a competitive die!

-Jeph

 

[Jeph]

they make a perfect last night of Hanukkah present

Advice taken. Hanukkah starts a in a week and two days, btw. (yeah, I'm an aethist jew).

 

[Crothian]

I use the group method of die rolls. When one rolls bad, her goes in the middle and all the other dice surround him to convince him to do better. If the dice does not improve, then all of them get retired .

 

[Wikidogre]

Yes, this sounds very familiar....I average a fair amount of crit threats and crits on my player, in my monday night dragonstar game. so far out of 3 players and thier 5 grunts following them i have killed 2 players (1 twice in the same venture..he he he) and 1 one the grunts. But thier are more to come!

 

[-Ekimus-]

haha

Well a guy who plays in our group does something similar. Whenever he rolls bad he puts the bad die in the middle of the others. If it keeps rolling bad, it goes into the Jar of Shattered Dice. If it still sucks, it gets smashed with a sledge hammer and its pieces are put into the Jar of Shattered Dice. It's damn funny.

 

[Desdichado]

I'm more into the positive reinforcement method and pep-talks myself. Smashing dice -- that just seems so heretical to me.

Then again, the only dice I have that really do really, really well are a handful of d6s I got from Warhammer 40k and Blood Bowl. I used them to generate a character at the Chicago gameday -- 18,17,16,15,15,14.

 

[Number47]

My last session, I kept on rolling twenties. Every one was followed by a one.

 

[Henry]

Yeah, get thee hence, Skaros, with your reality! I've yet to meet a player who wasn't superstitious about dice, myself included!

Amusing story: Last year, we added a player to our group, who had never before played role-playing games. He is an avowed agnostic, leaning towards atheism, and also disavows all belief in karma, luck, mojo, heka, etc.

Within six months of playing D&D, he was swapping dice when they rolled badly, cursing dice that were poor performers, telling us the "dice were against him," and basically all the same things that most D&D players I know of actually do. He was a certified Hackmaster Appendix "A" poster child, if ever I saw one! We didn't let him forget it either.

 

[Airwolf]

Crothian:
There's hot, and then there's deadly!!

Marius:
LOL! All but one of the sets I used are gifts...including a set from one of the players. They won't ask me to sacrifice dice which were gifts. It's my personal pet theory, that dice which are received as gifts consistently outperform dice we buy for ourselves .

That tears it! I am never giving anyone dice as a gift again!