I Rolled a Double-Zero (100%)!

[Zog]

MERP. Cirith Ungol module/region book. Wandering monster table.

'00' - "OH NO, YOU MEET SHELOB"

That is, if memory serves, a direct quote from the book. And since the GM rolled '00', said it out loud, looked at Shelob's stats, thought about it, and said, Nah, I don't wanna kill everyone, people remembered.

Ever since, whenever I see a '00' rolled, first thing in my brain is 'OH NO, YOU MEET SHELOB!'

 

[BlackMoria]

I've rolled and seen rolled lots of '00' in my 30+ years of playing. In fact, for me, '00' isn't than uncommon, so remembering something memorable for a particular '00' roll is a stretch.

I do remember one incident, with one of my players. 1E D&D with the System Shock rules. Don't remember the circumstances except that one the players had to make a system shock, deemed no biggie because his system shock was 99% and he failed only on 00.

He rolled 00 and I told him he died. Boy, he was one unhappy camper. The party returned to civilization to have him raised and under the rules, you made a system shock to survive the raising attempt. Yep, you guessed it. The second 00 of the night. To say the player was pissed would be an understatement.

I rolled up a uber intelligent sword once - 00 for intelligence potential and a subsequient 00, which meant the sword had a special purpose. It was one sweet blade - very powerful but with an arrogant, acerbic personality.

After having the blade awhile and putting up with the constant acerbic mouthing of the blade, the party buried the blade under tons of rock! Now, how many players bury a +5 Defender sword with a buttload of abilities and powers and walk away. Priceless!

 

[Jefe Bergenstein]

Not 100, but in a 2nd edition al-Quadim campaign, we were shackled while being taunted by a crooked guard captain. When he got close to me, I tried to do the whole "bend bars lift gates" with my 17 strength, and succeeded. He drew his blade on me, and asked "would anyone else like to test my security measures". The rest of the party did, and all rolled in the open. 3 out of 4 of the remaining PC's (most with strengthsd around 12) managed to roll a 1 or 2%, and we quickly dogpiled the guy. Good times, good times.

 

[TarionzCousin]

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).

I played in a Dark Sun campaign with only one other player. In front of the DM and me, he rolled an 18/00 for Strength and a 00 to determine if he had psionics. Yeah, his character was wayyyyyyyyy more powerful than mine in that game.

But I got him back. My character was a pretty good thief/illusionist. I stole lots of coins and gems, but the other player didn't know about it. So, since my character was 'poor,' the other guy had to pay for everything.

 

[Goldmoon]

I was playing a 2e Knight (Basically a fighter with a code) in a 10th level group. We had been beaten and battered all day and our cleric and druid's spells were exausted. we were in an underground cavern system and lookind for a good defensable spot to camp. Everyone was at 1/4 HP or less except for my Knight oddly enough who hadent been touched all day. My AC was -2 and was not the best in the group either. We come around the corner face to face with an adult red dragon. Knowing were all dead, my Knight tells everyone else to run and he will try to buy them some time. They run and he advances on the dragon. Round 1 the dragon breathes. I make my save and my ring of fire resistance further reduces my damage. Round 2 the dragon uses claw, claw, bite and fumbles on the first claw attack, thereby losing the other attacks. I attack and roll a natural 20. On the critical hit table I roll a 00, which is decapatation. The DM rules that even my +2 two-handed sword cant decapatate an adult red dragon in 1 hit but it can slit its throat. I parry wildly for the next 3 rounds until it bleeds to death. I walk away from the battle with hardly a scratch on me. I catch up to the party about 20 minutes later carrying a dragon horn and act like it was nothing.

 

[Nightchilde-2]

Merp and Rolemaster are probably the main games for these sort of moments.

My most memorable is a Dwarven Warrior NPC crushing his own skull with his flail. The flail had, IIRC, an 8% chance of fumbling and caused a B crush crit to you if you did. I rolled 00, Merp and RM crit tables are never kind at the higher levels.

Rolemaster has the BEST critical charts...;-)

I had a character in one of the RM games I ran once that kept rolling 00s and ended up getting something like a 346 on a swim roll. He was able to swim up a waterfall in full armor.

 

[Bad Paper]

I had a 1st ed ranger with 18(17) strength. Am I the chumpiest?

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 don't understand. Why were you rolling percentile dice for scrying? How can you have a scrying mishap? Was it a scroll?

 

[DragonBelow]

3 20s in a row...

I was playing in a high-ish level 2e PvP game (we did those from time to time), my character had the unarmed fighting proficiencies from the fighter's handbook, he had 3 attacks and could deal some "decent" damage, but you were tied to that silly random punch table. So my char is up against another PC and I win initiative, I attack him 3 times and roll 3 20s! I was very excited, but turned out the other PC was playing a vampire and was immune to my non-magical attacks... my character later escaped by using invisibility/misdirection, but my char was finally killed further by the vampire pc when he was fooled by a mislead spell.

Good times...

 

[DragonBelow]

regarding exceptional strengh

The only time I remember rolling for exceptional Str for sure, I rolled a 60, I had only one d10 so I assumed that the most significant digit was always rolled first (been playing for a year or so at that time and that was my first campaign under that DM). But the DM thought I was cheating him so he inverted the digits to make it a 06.

I played in that campaign for 9 years though (1st to 14th level).

 

[DragonBelow]

I had a 1st ed ranger with 18(17) strength. Am I the chumpiest?

I don't understand. Why were you rolling percentile dice for scrying? How can you have a scrying mishap? Was it a scroll?

In 2e, The scryer had a a chance on something bad happening to him (I think only if he used a crystal ball though)