Improbable dice rolls

[Quickleaf]

Last gaming session I rolled 3d20 and got: 18, 18, 18. Here's a picture for "proof."

The odds of this are like 1 in 10,000 right? Or exactly .0125%?

Any highly improbably dice rolls cropped up in your games?

 

[Jacob Marley]

Yeah, I once was playing a cleric of Rudd (Greyhawk goddess of Chance, Good Luck, and Skill) in a D&D 3.x campaign. With a high Wisdom modifier and by virtue of being a cleric, I had a very good Will save. I also had the Luck domain granted power and another ability that allowed me to reroll a die (might have been Alter Fortune). During a particular combat, my cleric was hit with an SoD against my Will. I needed something like a 3+ to save and, with two rerolls, was virtually guaranteed to save, right? Apparently not as my three rolls resulted in a 1, a 2, and then another 1. It seemed very fitting that a cleric of the goddess of Good Luck would eventually die as a result of bad luck. It was an awesome death!

 

[Evenglare]

Your dice could be skewed to that number... if it happens again I'd go with faulty dice. Otherwise it's just as random to roll any 3 sets of specific numbers really. Those 3 just happened to be 18 18 18.

 

[Ratskinner]

Last gaming session I rolled 3d20 and got: 18, 18, 18. Here's a picture for "proof."

The odds of this are like 1 in 10,000 right? Or exactly .0125%?

Any highly improbably dice rolls cropped up in your games?

There is a d20 in my current group, which is called "the TORG die", since it came from that game. It rolls surprisingly well, so much so that I personally would have "outlawed" it a long time ago. However, it belongs to the GM and his brother...

Can't say I've never benefited from broken dice before. I had a green gem d20 that rolled "17" ridiculously often for a while in college.

The odds of rolling three 18's in a row on "fair" d20s would be 1 in 20^3 or 1 in 8,000 which is 0.0125%.

 

[Nemesis Destiny]

Couple months back, I had a player call my next four rolls correctly on a d10, in order. I can't remember what the results were, but this particular player has really good dice luck as well (gets the lion's share of crits, without fail, and isn't cheating).

 

[n00bdragon]

The chances of you rolling three 18s in a row is exactly the same as the chances of you rolling a 15, a 7, and a 12. What's the big deal?

 

[Stormonu]

Last gaming session I rolled 3d20 and got: 18, 18, 18. Here's a picture for "proof."

The odds of this are like 1 in 10,000 right? Or exactly .0125%?

Any highly improbably dice rolls cropped up in your games?

And how do we know you didn't just set them down on these numbers?

Our group record is a string of six 20's in a row, followed by a 19 for a single attack (we used a house rule where if you got a '20' on a hit, you got another attack, and so on).

That's a 1 in 64,000,000 chance (.000000015625%), not counting the 19.

 

[Evenglare]

Our group record is a string of six 20's in a row, followed by a 19 for a single attack (we used a house rule where if you got a '20' on a hit, you got another attack, and so on).

That's a 1 in 64,000,000 chance (.000000015625%), not counting the 19.

... im calling skewed dice on that one for sure.

 

[Lindeloef]

I had a player once that hat terrible luck. She needed to roll a 4 or higher to hit the enemies and 8 rounds later, she had yet to hit sth.
I myself had once six 1s in a row.... it was a good day for the players ^^

 

[MarkB]

In a Spycraft game I once rolled five 1s in a row, in a system that uses critical fumbles. That set took me from listening outside the door of the villain's penthouse apartment to dangling by my fingertips from the frame of his smashed window above a 70-storey drop, all in a series of perfectly logical intermediary steps.

In our 4e campaign, three out of four characters have sets of Dice of Auspicious Fortune. After an extended rest in this week's session we all rolled to refresh our dice, and only one person got a roll in double digits - an eleven. We added them up, and the total we'd rolled between nine d20s was less than 40.