I Rolled a Double-Zero (100%)!

[TarionzCousin]

On monday, my players were trying to catch a fleeing NPC. They were able to view her via scrying, hence qualifying as "studied carefully." Of course, I rolled a double zero (= mishap!)

I ended the game there.

What are some memorable moments when you or someone at your table rolled 00?

 

[John Morrow]

What are some memorable moments when you or someone at your table rolled 00?

A player's character and an NPC are sitting on the roof of a tall building, watching the sun set. Taken by the moment, the NPC throws herself into the PC's arms and says, "Catch me, you fool!" It's a percentile system and the GM tells the player to make a DFU ("Don't Foul Up") Roll to catch her (basically, that's a roll where anything but a fumble is good enough). The player rolls a "00". She plummets off of the building to her death. The GM tells the player to make another DFU roll for shock. The player rolls another "00", so his character stands there, looking over the edge of the building at her body, mouth open, while a crowd gathers below, points up, and gets a good look at him. Best double-double-ought I've ever seen.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

The amount of characters that seemed to roll 18 (00) for Exceptional Strength in 2E must surely qualify as memorable!

I swear I never saw a character with 18 Strength ever have less than 18 (80) for their Exceptional Strength roll.

Olaf the Stout

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

The amount of characters that seemed to roll 18 (00) for Exceptional Strength in 2E must surely qualify as memorable!...I swear I never saw a character with 18 Strength ever have less than 18 (80) for their Exceptional Strength roll.

That's because we all had our "special" strength rolling dice, you know the weighted ones

 

[xmanii]

Back in my 2E days, my group had some of our characters go to Dark Sun, and every body gained psionics, per the DM, but we had to roll and compare it to the Complete Book of Psionics, and I rolled a 00 (got alot of psionics of my choice).

 

[Felnar]

I swear I never saw a character with 18 Strength ever have less than 18 (80) for their Exceptional Strength roll.

my first exceptional strength char had 18(90) and my second had 18(35), i must be the only honor sucker

not a 00 roll, but my favorite was in a single campaign my friends dwarf fighter loss his left leg 3 times (umber hulk, pterodactyl, something else). We used 2ed Players Option Combat and Tactics Crit Hit tables, and laughed even harder each time it happened, and always the left one too .

 

[Treebore]

Just this past weekend I was determining mineral resources for lands one of the PC's is a Baron of (just got their patent of nobility, etc...) I got into the section of the list where it had a string of 5% chances. I rolled 03, 04, 03, 04. Go figure.

 

[darkseraphim]

I just rolled a 73! There's only a 1% chance of that happening!

 

[Aeric]

My memorable percentile moment came not with a 00, but with a 01.

The party was on board an airship floating above a city that was being overrun with monsters. The monsters were issuing out of a gate which the PCs were unable to close or destroy. As they watched on, helpless, I asked if anyone wanted to do anything special. The cleric in the party stated that she prayed for the city's salvation. I thought to myself, "sure, why the heck not?" So I told the cleric's player to roll percentile dice.

"Oh, shoot," she said. "I got nothing."

I asked her what she rolled.

"01," she said.

That was what she needed for divine intervention, an old house rule from the first AD&D game I ever played in. So we took a short dinner break while I figured out what happened. In the end, I decided that the clouds parted and a beam of positive energy shone down from the heavens, smiting the gate and the tower it was in, utterly destroying them. The area became permanently consecrated and in time, a shrine to the cleric's goddess was built there. I wanted to put a statue of the cleric there, but the PCs were working undercover for the government and were very clandestine about their activities, so nobody knew who she was.

 

[Boddynock]

In a homebrew game, in the mid 70's when I first started playing D&D, the DM had a 'sexual prowess' stat. Yes, my elven illusionist had a (legitimate) sexual prowess of 100%. And the NPC gnome mage who was his lover had an SP of 98. They made very beautiful music together indeed.

Of course, I was less impressed when a non-gamer friend of mine asked me what this D&D stuff was all about. She picked up said illusionist's character sheet, started reading it, and said, "Wow, sexual prowess of zero! How embarassing!"

Indeed!

Boddynock