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<blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 7950046" data-attributes="member: 53980">Sure, over the course of years you will see a 1 in 100 chance come into play from time to time. Over a long enough series of rolls, a 1 in a thousand or 1 in a million chance will also come into play. Does that mean you should switch to rolling d1000s or d1000000s? This isn't to imply that you're doing it wrong. If it's fun for you and your table, then there's evidently no problem. The point is simply that there comes a point where granularity results in diminishing returns. A +1/-1 on a d20 is fairly likely to come into play in any given game session. A +1/-1 on a d100 might only come into play a few times in a (20 level) campaign. The same on a d1000 or d1000000 will likely occur at some point over the course of years, but not necessarily within the scope of any given campaign. This, of course, assumes that this check is being rolled with fair regularity. If you like the granularity then by all means use it. But that doesn't make it necessarily significant. Those significant rolls that were missed by 1% could have easily been missed by 1 point on a d20 as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fanaelialae, post: 7950046, member: 53980"] Sure, over the course of years you will see a 1 in 100 chance come into play from time to time. Over a long enough series of rolls, a 1 in a thousand or 1 in a million chance will also come into play. Does that mean you should switch to rolling d1000s or d1000000s? This isn't to imply that you're doing it wrong. If it's fun for you and your table, then there's evidently no problem. The point is simply that there comes a point where granularity results in diminishing returns. A +1/-1 on a d20 is fairly likely to come into play in any given game session. A +1/-1 on a d100 might only come into play a few times in a (20 level) campaign. The same on a d1000 or d1000000 will likely occur at some point over the course of years, but not necessarily within the scope of any given campaign. This, of course, assumes that this check is being rolled with fair regularity. If you like the granularity then by all means use it. But that doesn't make it necessarily significant. Those significant rolls that were missed by 1% could have easily been missed by 1 point on a d20 as well. [/QUOTE]

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