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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gunter uxbridge" data-source="post: 417727" data-attributes="member: 7526">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 18Dex 18Con 14Int 8Wis 8Cha 18We 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!</blockquote>