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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ARandomGod" data-source="post: 2284620" data-attributes="member: 17296">So... what you're saying there is that it's not outside the realm of possibility? Therefore it IS possible, and therefore it could have happened. Reread your course in probabilities. Statistically anomalies DO happen, statistically speaking.. and are in the realm of possibility. Even if they're not "probable" before you start rolling, after the roll it's exceedingly improbably that the rolls will not have happened. Anyhow. I once rolled 18, 18, 18, 17, 15, 12 (Edit: in early second edition).  On 3d6, no reroll. In front of a large group. I once saw someone roll five 18's (on 4d6 drop the lowest, however (edit.. AND reroll ones. Yes, it was meant to be uber) ... and something else above ten I didn't pay too much attention, as I was asking him to roll mine for me please. It can happen. If you play often enough and roll up characters often enough, it will happen. As you increase the number of times you roll, you increase the probability that you will roll any particular combination. It's not terribly improbable to roll one 18. And, after you've rolled that 18, it's not terribly improbable that you will roll another. And... after you've rolled two 18's... it's not any more improbable that you will roll ANOTHER 18 than it was that you would have rolled the first 18.Still. I wouldn't have believed either result if I hadn't had several backup witnesses... not even my own!</blockquote>

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