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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Florin" data-source="post: 169178" data-attributes="member: 1189">I have terrible luck when I really need to make a roll.  Don't believe me?  Here's two (kind of long, sorry) stories to prove it.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'm playing a vampire in Hong Kong the night before it switches from British to Chinese control.  I'm on a dock, watching some mages duke it out when one of the mages turns on me and points some weird metal tube at me.  I try to hurry up and drop through a hole in the dock before he can fire whatever it is at me, and I botch (as in roll more 1's than successes) the athletics roll and get stuck and take some damage.  Then, I swim out into the bay to get away from this crazy mage and spy a boat with an old couple sitting on the bow, gazing at the stars and fire works. Well, evil denizen of the night that I am, I decide they'd make a good meal, so I climb up onto the boat and attack the old man.  The little old lady grabs an oar and tries to pound me with it.I bite the man, roll absolutely no damage what-so-ever, and then the old lady, with one die to hit and one die for damage manages to hit me, 3 times in a row while I, with like 6 or 7 dice can't manage to do a single point of damage to this old man.  Finally, the GM turns to me and says "Do you just want to assume you win?"  I practically kissed the guy.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Second, different vampire game, I'm playing a one-eyed mongolian shaman who was turned into a vampire.  Him and his group of friends are in Arabia (this is the past, see?) and I'm trying to talk to some spirits to get some info about the surrounding area.  I botched 3 times in a row (this is using the new rules on botching where you have to roll no successes and at least one 1 to botch) on 7 dice, difficulty 6, and all these weird things kept happening, so my vampire was convinced that this area of the world was cursed and refused to have anything to do with the spirit world while there.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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