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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 2292230" data-attributes="member: 4937">That's one of the reasons I don't give much credence to these stories of phenominal dice rolls.&nbsp; If you are remembering something related to you by a friend a long time ago, then no lying really needs to be involved.&nbsp; The story can just grow in the telling.&nbsp;&nbsp; Human memory is not perfect.In any event, needing to throw six 6's in a row in order to win a Btech tournament is somewhat believable, though my suspicion from what I know of the rules is that that wasn't the only way to win and on several throws a lesser total would be acceptable.&nbsp; In fact, usually just throwing 4 six's in a row is enough to do it late in a battle because it usually will result in decapitation.&nbsp; But the odds of rolling six 6's in a row is only 1:46656, and that's something that will happen often enough to be believable.&nbsp; And in fact, there is a non-random factor involved too, in that that many 6's in a row will generally result in immediate victory so while the odds that any six die all come up 6 is 1:46656, the odds that the end of the tournament was proceded by six 6's in a row or some other similar string of 'luck' is bit higher (though I couldn't say how much higher).&nbsp; It's just natural that good throws procede the end of the game because bad throws generally indicate 'no change'.&nbsp; &nbsp; But the odds of rolling six 20's in a row is 1 in 64000000, and that's probably happened as a purely random event only a couple of times in the whole history of gaming and likely at some little heralded time.&nbsp;&nbsp; And the odds of throwing 6 18's on a 3d6 in a row are like 1 in 10100000000000, and if that has ever happened in the history of gaming my money is on loaded dice.You are thinking 'Chaos Confetti' which was a card in Unglued that was based on the old urban legend I just related.&nbsp; Chaos Orb was in the original Alpha set.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 2292230, member: 4937"] That's one of the reasons I don't give much credence to these stories of phenominal dice rolls. If you are remembering something related to you by a friend a long time ago, then no lying really needs to be involved. The story can just grow in the telling. Human memory is not perfect. In any event, needing to throw six 6's in a row in order to win a Btech tournament is somewhat believable, though my suspicion from what I know of the rules is that that wasn't the only way to win and on several throws a lesser total would be acceptable. In fact, usually just throwing 4 six's in a row is enough to do it late in a battle because it usually will result in decapitation. But the odds of rolling six 6's in a row is only 1:46656, and that's something that will happen often enough to be believable. And in fact, there is a non-random factor involved too, in that that many 6's in a row will generally result in immediate victory so while the odds that any six die all come up 6 is 1:46656, the odds that the end of the tournament was proceded by six 6's in a row or some other similar string of 'luck' is bit higher (though I couldn't say how much higher). It's just natural that good throws procede the end of the game because bad throws generally indicate 'no change'. But the odds of rolling six 20's in a row is 1 in 64000000, and that's probably happened as a purely random event only a couple of times in the whole history of gaming and likely at some little heralded time. And the odds of throwing 6 18's on a 3d6 in a row are like 1 in 10100000000000, and if that has ever happened in the history of gaming my money is on loaded dice. You are thinking 'Chaos Confetti' which was a card in Unglued that was based on the old urban legend I just related. Chaos Orb was in the original Alpha set. [/QUOTE]

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