I Rolled a Double-Zero (100%)!

[Stalker0]

Back in 2e we were in a swamp. It was one of those games where it was way too early in the morning, the caffiene was running freely, everyone was a bit silly.

Well we had one guy in the group who always liked to do absolutely crazy things with his character, and was starting to get bored with his new one. He asked if he could spontaneously combust!!

The dm was getting tired and didn't say no right away, so he gave him a 5% chance to blow up on the spot. He rolled....got a 04!!

So we all perked up at this point, the excited player of the suicide character then asked that since there was swamp gas every where, shouldn't the swamp gas explode?

The dm again said, alright a 2% chance that the swamp gas explodes. He rolls a 02.

So now we have a big fireball going on around us. The dm decides to roll to see how big the explosion would be, 00 being the biggest explosion. Of course, he rolls the snake eyes, and our entire party is engulfed in a swamp gas explosion.

I would have been very mad about it, but 3e had just come out, and we were all looking to try it, so it turned out to be a happy story in the end.

 

[shilsen]

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

Nope. I had a 2e fighter with 18(03) Strength. I am the chumpiest!

 

[phindar]

The best I ever rolled...

...in Shadowrun was a 46. I rolled a 6 seven times, and followed it with a 4.

...in White Wolf, 4 10's on 4 dice. 1 in 10,000. (I made it over the pit.)

 

[Henry]

How about a 00 for a Resurrection survival check for an 17 CON character in 1st edition AD&D?

The DM let the party assassin kill my character to make his way into the guild of assassins, and the assassin even paid for my resurrection secretly to say he was sorry.

And then I rolled a failure. I was ticked off, and his face was just a bit red.

 

[lukelightning]

I have once seen an honest 18(00) strength (though it wasn't the official "3d6" method, or even the 4d6; I recall we had something like one stat that was 6d6, one 5d6, one 4d6 and the rest 3d6).

Anyhoo, my friend wanted to play a kensai/weapon master, and got an 18 strength (not too difficult for 6d6). Then for percentile...100! We all saw it and a great big "woo hoo!" went up. It was like watching your team win the superbowl.

Then he decided his weapon master would specialize in fighting with chopsticks!

 

[Sir Brennen]

College Game, playing Star Frontiers. The players were investigating a derelict, crashed alien ship - a prison ship, actually - which had TARDIS-like abilities to travel space and time. When they got to the main control room, one of the characters decided to just start pressing buttons. On a whim, I asked him for a roll, and of course he got double-aught. I ruled that he had activated the (now malfunctioning) temporal devices on the ship, and each party member was cast into different points in time aboard the ship (one far past, one near past, one near future, one far future). The now completely-unplanned-for adventure became about just getting the party back together in the present, with each character dealing with the beings and hazards that existed for their time period.

I've been accused of getting a lot of mileage out of players rolling critical failures

 

[jeffh]

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

I got an 01, the one time I was in that situation.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

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

Nope. Only time I rolled an 18 for STR and needed to roll percentile (I tended away from fighter types) I was totally excited. Then I promptly rolled an '01'.

 

[Sir Elton]

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?

Well, an unmodified 100 in Rolemaster is nothing to be sneered at. especially if you are dealing a nasty Critical Strike.

 

[TarionzCousin]

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

A friend ran a MERP game every week for over three years. The climax of the campaign was an archery tournament at which the characters knew an assassin was going to try to kill the king. So one player trained for over two years of real time to improve his archery skills.

His character was one of the three finalists in the tournament. The characters weren't sure which of the other two was the assassin. But then they saw a furtive figure slinking up behind the king. The archer drew his arrow and loosed.

...and rolled a double-zero, putting his arrow right through the king's eye and killing him. Oops. :\

This wasn't my story, so some of the details may be off, but that's the gist of it.