Rolling 18/100 Strength

[Ulrick]

EDIT: The second option should read: I haven't rolled such a score but I have witnessed it.

I got this idea from the Roll all 18s thread.

For those who don't know, back in the days of 1st and 2ed there was a thing called an "Exceptional Strength" Table.

If you were a fighter, and you had an 18 strength, you could roll on this table to determine how exceptional you're strength was.

You rolled d100. The highest resulted ("100") confered upon your character a +3 to hit bonus, and a +6 damage bonus.

Yes, even at first level, you were a powerhouse, able to kill most creature that are normally encounter at 1st level with one hit. And if you used a Two-handed sword against a large creature, you could to a whopping 24hp of damage.

In my 14 years of gamings, I've only seen this score rolled once, and that was by me using the 4d6 drop the lowest method. That character's name was Ulrick. I know a guy who claimed to have done so, but he was a known cheater and thus was discredited (and none of his characters stats were below 16).

I'm assuming probably more people have seen this happen than somebody rolling all 18s.

Btw: In 3e rules, a strength of 22 equals 18/00.

 

[Crothian]

Ya, I've seen it happen and done it. Maybe all of 5 times total in 15 years+ of the older system.

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

I've rolled it once, but i've also cheated to get it once.

 

[Skade]

all of the above?

 

[InvaderSquoosh]

I managed it once too.

 

[Thorvald Kviksverd]

I rolled it once...

But I couldn't keep it, as it exceeded the racial maximum for my Dwarf Fighter!

 

[Talvisota]

One of my players was rolling a replacement character after his first expired. They were 78th level, I believe.

He was making a dwarf fighter, and we as a group are rather anti-huge scores, making them the exceptional rarity and therefore more special.

He rolled an 18, which he put in str, and then rolled the percentage, which came up 00. A wide-eyed gasp all around, and I will never forget the look on his face.

I was the first to say anything, which was, "Dwarves can't have a 100." He rerolled. ( this is true per 1e PHB)

What a #&$%#@ I was!

 

[mmu1]

Never seen it happen... And I'm convinced that the vast majority of people who ever "had" one, cheated to get it - mainly because of the number of people I've met who'd claim with a straight face they've had multiple characters with 18/00 STR.

 

[Walter_J]

I had one character, tops two, in 20+ years of gaming that had the big 00 and I've seen a few rolled in front of me in my own campaigns. I only saw 1 straight 18's rolled in front of me and that was with 3d6. Now in Rolemaster I could roll some killer stats, but it didn't much matter. Most of my characters died like dogs the first time an irrate goblin got the urge to throw a sharp stick in my character's general direction.

 

[Ulrick]

Yeah, that's Rolemaster/MERP for ya. I always seemed to roll up awesome characters for that system and they soon DIE.

Talvisota: You are #&$%#@!

mmu1: I know exactly what you mean. One time a DM required that somebody--as long as it was another player, witness a person rolling up character stats. These two players who were friends and were known to "fudge" a bit would create characters and vouch for each other that they didn't cheat.

And for some strange reason they ALWAYS had spectacular stats...