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<blockquote data-quote="carnival" data-source="post: 5389958" data-attributes="member: 99926">So I've got a problem that has been plaguing my characters since I started playing table top rpgs a few years back: I have absolutely abysmal luck with dice rolls. It's at the point now where its become really frustrating because I can't for the life of me play a competent character <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/cry.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":.-(" title="Cry&nbsp; &nbsp; :.-(" data-shortname=":.-(" /> .For example I'm playing a 4e campaign with some friends of mine at the moment as a two bladed ranger. I've got 18's in str and dex and pretty average scores in everything else(with the exception of an 8 Cha lol, which is worse). My problem is that with scores like that, you wouldn't think it would be a stretch to be playing a character that is good at martial-type stuff but isn't the greatest conversationalist of the room.So my character joins the group, and precedes to just entirely suck it up...I've calculated my historical chance or rolling 1's to be about 40% lol, and I routinely fail at streetwise, stealth, acrobatics, you name it. What's sad is that my dm goes easy too. I'm not failing these checks because my skills suck(though the streetwise certainly does hehe), but for the fact that I roll below tens 75% of the time. This isn't a streak of sucky rolls every once in a while or only with this character either. For as long as I've been playing rpgs, I've had to deal with this.Anyway, despite the previous contents of this post, I didn't actually post this to vent(or not entirely anyway lol). I'm really interested in how you guys handle(from an rp perspective) a character concept where it seems outstanding on paper, but they just can't catch a break with the rolls.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="carnival, post: 5389958, member: 99926"] So I've got a problem that has been plaguing my characters since I started playing table top rpgs a few years back: I have absolutely abysmal luck with dice rolls. It's at the point now where its become really frustrating because I can't for the life of me play a competent character :.-( . For example I'm playing a 4e campaign with some friends of mine at the moment as a two bladed ranger. I've got 18's in str and dex and pretty average scores in everything else(with the exception of an 8 Cha lol, which is worse). My problem is that with scores like that, you wouldn't think it would be a stretch to be playing a character that is good at martial-type stuff but isn't the greatest conversationalist of the room. So my character joins the group, and precedes to just entirely suck it up...I've calculated my historical chance or rolling 1's to be about 40% lol, and I routinely fail at streetwise, stealth, acrobatics, you name it. What's sad is that my dm goes easy too. I'm not failing these checks because my skills suck(though the streetwise certainly does hehe), but for the fact that I roll below tens 75% of the time. This isn't a streak of sucky rolls every once in a while or only with this character either. For as long as I've been playing rpgs, I've had to deal with this. Anyway, despite the previous contents of this post, I didn't actually post this to vent(or not entirely anyway lol). I'm really interested in how you guys handle(from an rp perspective) a character concept where it seems outstanding on paper, but they just can't catch a break with the rolls. [/QUOTE]

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