Raineym's sig?

[Quasqueton]

Lines from an old Basic D&D game a long time ago:



Player: "OK, I open the door. What do I see?"
DM: "Well, while you were opening the door, the necromancer on the other side was casting a spell. All of you, roll a saving throw versus Spells and, uh, roll 'till you fail."

(THE VETERAN PLAYERS REALIZE THAT ROLLING CAN BE HEARD FROM ACROSS THE TABLE. ALL LOOK IN THE DIRECTION OF THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE PLAYING GROUP.)

Five Minutes Later ..... In The Middle Of Rolling Up New Characters

Noob: "Hey, wait a minute. Roll until you fail? I couldn't have saved against that guy's spell anyway, could I? That ain't fair! I want to roll against a spell I can save against!"

(THE VETERAN PLAYERS REALIZE THAT THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE PLAYING GROUP IS AN IDIOT.)

I don't get it.

Quasqueton

 

[jmucchiello]

I too am at a loss. What does roll till you fail mean? Why?

 

[diaglo]

i'm at a loss too.

would someone quote the OP for me...

 

[wedgeski]

Isn't the general point of the sig that no-one - DM, players - knew what the hell they were doing?

 

[Captain Tagon]

I think the point was that the rookie player was the only one who actually rolled dice. Everyone else at the table realize the "roll until you fail" thing was a sign their characters were already dead, it just took the new guy five minutes to figure it out.

I think anyway.

Granted, it's still not really funny and doesn't make much sense. But yeah.

 

[Turjan]

Everyone else at the table realize the "roll until you fail" thing was a sign their characters were already dead, it just took the new guy five minutes to figure it out.

Well, there might be the real possibility that the new player had at least some trust in the fairness of the DM, so it was hard for him to believe that the DM was that bold. This "rocks are falling" syndrome is something you have to get used to, I suppose.