Rolling 18/100 Strength

[Mathew_Freeman]

I once rolled a genuine human fighter with 18/00 strength in front of my brother. And guess what? He died on his first adventure...

 

[Hypersmurf]

14 Wisdom, not Con.

You are of course correct, and in my defence, I can only say that I was completely aware of that before my fingers touched the keyboard. Stupid fingers!

(All I can think is that late at night, I automatically labelled the 3rd stat as Con under the 3E order... :-\ )

-Hyp.

 

[Ysgarran]

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!

I did something similiar to one of my players. I watched him roll an 18/00 for one of his characters (using 4d6 drop the lowest). I told him that he would completely overshadow the other characters in the campaign if he kept that. He graciously agreed to lower it down to 18/75.

When he reached about 7th level he killed a killed a powerfull cave bear totem animal. That is when he finally got his 18/00 strength.

later,
ysgarran.

 

[Mercule]

Never done it, myself. Seen it done maybe 2-3 times in the 15 years or so I played 1e & 2e (before I switched to Hero and Storyteller for several years).

The closest I ever came was a ranger w/ gauntlets of ogre power, but it was a Monty Haul game and I had the lowest strength besides the wizard/thief (who had an 18 strength). *sigh*

As far as racial +1s, we always only increased the exceptional % by one category (eg. 18/32 would be 18/51, 18/87 --> 18/91, and 18/95 --> 18/00). Only an 18/00 would yield a 19.

 

[Shard O'Glase]

I never played fighter types so I never got to even roll for the 00, but I've seen it done multiple times, and multiple times y the same people. All you need is to roll an 18 out of 6 rolls, what 1 in 257, and then you got a 1 in a hundred chance. The odds just aren't that bad, when you consider how many characters someone might play over their D&D carreer, especially in lethal campaigns, and especially ocnsiderng many people stick with a class type for a long time. I know one person who'd played a ranger in every cmapaign now for 20 years. That's a lot of d100 chances.

 

[mmu1]

I never played fighter types so I never got to even roll for the 00, but I've seen it done multiple times, and multiple times y the same people. All you need is to roll an 18 out of 6 rolls, what 1 in 257, and then you got a 1 in a hundred chance. The odds just aren't that bad, when you consider how many characters someone might play over their D&D carreer, especially in lethal campaigns, and especially ocnsiderng many people stick with a class type for a long time. I know one person who'd played a ranger in every cmapaign now for 20 years. That's a lot of d100 chances.

I think the actual probability is something like 1/1000, actually. The chance of getting at least one 18 on six rolls of 4d6 drop lowest is a little under 10%, then the 1% chance of rolling a 100.

It means that if you created 100 fighters over your D&D career, you'd still have a 90% chance of never getting an 18/00 STR.

If you made 700 characters, you'd still only have around a 50/50 chance of getting it.

And that's doing it once - which certainly doesn't preclude some people actually doing it more than once, but I still think most who claim to have done it several times are full of crap.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Whoever said "cheaters never prosper" obviously rolled a 12.

I rolled a "natural" 18/00. As in: I kept rolling until I got 18/00 and "naturally" called the DM into the room when I did it.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

When I rolled up Flexor and got a 00 I almost cried. The only time it's happened to me. In our games we never had any races with STR mods other than 1/2 O's so he was the strongest PC we had in all the years of 1e gaming.

 

[Skade]

I only once saw an actual 18/00, and it was not me. I have allowed a playerto fudge it once. he was much younger than us, and was contantly killed by in game conflict so I gave him a little edge. its still didn't help him. There were plenty of 18/00 in my games, I just never saw them rolled.

I did once roll a character with three 17s.

edit: original post made little sense.

 

[Sanackranib]

18/00

in the 23 years I have been playing I have done it twice and I have seen it done by someone else twice. ( OUT OF THE HUNDREDS OF CHARACTERS i HAVE PLAYED OR DM'ED FOR) So whill it its extremely uncommon, its definatly possible. I saw 1 character get 4 18's and 2 16's, He was one of the ones who got "00". without a doubt the best character I have ever witnessed being rolled up.