I never rolled so many nat. 20s in my life!

[ThomasBJJ]

Last night's game, I rolled more natural 20's in 3 hours than the entire party combined has in 4 months of gaming.

Unfortunately for the PC's, I'm the DM.

Three 5th level characters were almost destroyed by four 1 hit die orcs. I was running them thru a slightly modified Forge Of Fury module. They were being fired on from the arrow slits above the Dwarf door. The Fighter and Cleric had buffed up thier AC's to 21 and 22, and the other Fighter had a 17 AC. The orcs had only a +1 ranged attack bonus, but when you're rolling 20's it doesn't really matter. 90% of the criticals were confirmed, and the orcs were dealing out around 18 damage per arrow.

Now, I use the same dice pretty much every session. Tonight for some reason, I rolled about 30 natural 20's, and about 15 natural 1's. Some rounds, three orcs fired thier bows, and all three got 20's. One even rolled a 20 to confirm the critical. What the hell? was it a full moon last night?

 

[Dagger75]

GAAAAH Dice stories

If people have any care to remeber they will know I have the WORST LUCK in the world with dice rolls. I once needed to roll 5's or better on a d20 to hit the darn party. I missed 7 times in a row. My group does not fear anything because of my bad die rolls. I would love to just hit the party, I am not even thinking about critting.

I will soon to turn to unholy methods to get my dice rolling well.


-whimpers back into corner in a huddled mass-

 

[IceBear]

Well, this isn't d20 related, but it's a dice story. I was once running a mechwarrior campaign and one of the heroes was in an Atlas defending a base against some pirates. Seeing a lowly 20-ton Wasp attacking he moved towards it. Well, two attack rolls later I had two hits. Two hit location rolls later (both 12) I had the head. A critical hit check was successful. Critical hit location - pilot

I was ducking dice like no tomorrow as the player flung them at me in disbelief

IceBear

 

[Wikidogre]

Once in Starwars D6, i was rolling to see if i could Str save vs. an AT-AT main gun, and with my armor, and Str, equaled 9d6 (Power armor and Wookie str) and rolled all 6's, boy was the Gm miffed, because he roll all 1's, 2's, and 3's........oh well OT but i will never forget it!

 

[Karl Green]

Dice stories

Yea for some reason when I am the GM I roll pretty well and when I am a player I am all over the place.

Two weeks ago though I was rolling "mega hot"

I run two different game... a d20 Pulp Supers game a modern Hero 5 (FReD) Supers game (yea I run a lot of supers games)
So anyway I rolled a ton of "20" in the Pulp Hero game, so many... the first bad one was a speedster type character who has a really high Defense but not that many hit points was running by some thugs and one shot at him, hit with a 20, followed by another 20 to confirm critical, and then almost max out on the damage (it was 3d10 damage as I remember and I think I did 27 points of damage). Another was a crit on the hero who could take a lot of hits... followed by another crit in the same around against the same character (my thugs were kicking @$$ and taking names that night). So they get to the final confrontation and two of characters are seriously hurt (they both were around 2 or 3 hit points at this point). They won but lots of people below 0 at the end of that night and I did not think it would be that bad.

Then that same week I play Hero 5, and what do I do... I rolled three "natural 3s" in one combat against the party. I used the roll that you do maximum damage on a crit (a natural 3), so of course I took out two players while they were fighting the masterminds minor villains, who I thought the players would win against, not easily but they would still win. They did not, so I had to change parts to take into account that 2 of the party was captured... hehehe that was kind of funny though

 

[Jondor_Battlehammer]

We have nights like this as well. Fully 1/3 of our games are ripe in misses, another 1/3 nothing but crits.

The best from one person was 8 1's in a row. This was a home brew game from ages past, and was complete with crit charts. The goblins were highly amused as he single handedly killed half the party.

 

[gunter uxbridge]

Off topic in a sort of on-topic way...

Years ago on the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Guadalcanal we were playing a miniaures game of some of the naval action that took place around the island. I was playing an American cruiser, the San Francisco I think, and had stumbled into a swarm of Japanese destroyers. The guy running the destroyers fired a volley of torpedoes at me, and three were sure to hit. The guy running the game told me to roll a D6 for each. On a roll of six I would avoid that torp. So I took up my dice and rolled one at a time.
6
***6***
!!***6***!!!
Woo-hoo!
I avoided all three torpedoes and proceeded to rip the Japanese destroyers into tinfoil with my deck guns.

In the game game the Japanese battleship Kongo was supposed to lay main gun fire on the American airfield and out of 30 or 40 rounds he only hit with one ot two. And he was at optimum range!

One of the goofiest dice games I have ever played.

Then again, my first 2E D&D character was mega-man. I rolled him up, in front of the DM mind you, and wound up with:
Str 18
Dex 18
Con 14
Int 8
Wis 8
Cha 18
We used the base 8, add 7d6 method. I rolled all 4s and 6s. He was a rogue...big, strong, quick, handsom, healthy and dumb as a rock!

 

[Marius Delphus]

Also non-D&D, but on the subject of incredible luck with dice, the Battletech story reminds me of the uncanny accuracy of "Headhunter" the Hunchback...

I played often with a buddy of mine, repeatedly testing my theory of "juggernauts versus horde." With equal tonnage on each side, I took the big assault Mechs and my buddy took medium Mechs like the Hunchback.

I got trounced repeatedly as a matter of course. But with the Hunchback in particular, my buddy rolled "head" shots unbelievably often. (With a single shot, the Hunchback's main weapon will tear the head right off of a Mech of any size, killing the pilot and putting the Mech out of commission.)

It helped, I suppose, that my buddy is a Chaotic Diehard, and I am a Neutral Dietosser.

 

[Duncan Haldane]

My players rolled up a set of new characters last week, using the 4D6 method.

One player ended up with a 50 point character.

Ouch.

Duncan