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<blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 9478057" data-attributes="member: 3285">On Roll20 specifically I've seen an inordinate amount of crits/fumbles back-to-back. 20/1 rolls and 20/20 rolls, and 1/1 rolls. I think over a distribution it's still technically still an equal distribution if you roll enough, but it sure does feel like I've had players with disadvantage/advantage roll natural 1s twice, or seen two dice rolls be crits in a row (including initiative). It's ended up with some brutally swingy combat where when the PCs do bad, they do REALLY BAD and when they do great, they practically one-crit monsters. But it may well just be a perception thing. Which is why you have to be careful about calling someone a cheater unless you see very specifically them cheating (altering a die roll, for example). We tend to remember crits/fumbles more than all the other boring &quot;regular&quot; die rolls, so observer bias can make it seem like they happen more often because they're more memorable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="talien, post: 9478057, member: 3285"] On Roll20 specifically I've seen an inordinate amount of crits/fumbles back-to-back. 20/1 rolls and 20/20 rolls, and 1/1 rolls. I think over a distribution it's still technically still an equal distribution if you roll enough, but it sure does feel like I've had players with disadvantage/advantage roll natural 1s twice, or seen two dice rolls be crits in a row (including initiative). It's ended up with some brutally swingy combat where when the PCs do bad, they do REALLY BAD and when they do great, they practically one-crit monsters. But it may well just be a perception thing. Which is why you have to be careful about calling someone a cheater unless you see very specifically them cheating (altering a die roll, for example). We tend to remember crits/fumbles more than all the other boring "regular" die rolls, so observer bias can make it seem like they happen more often because they're more memorable. [/QUOTE]

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