So, I rolled 5 18s

[ForceUser]

As a DM, I don't mind high stats, in fact I encourage them... however, if it wasn't rolled in my presence, it wasn't rolled.

Agreed.

 

[KarinsDad]

Man, there are a lot of untrustworthy people here...

It depends on which system he used.

If he used 3D6, I do not believe him. The odds of that are 1 in 250+ billion. That's like winning the lottery 5000+ times.

If he used 4D6 drop lowest, I still do not believe him. The odds of that are 1 in 500+ million. That's like winning the lottery 10+ times.

If he used 5D6 drop lowest two, it starts coming down into the believable range, but I still do not believe him. The odds of that are 1 in 10+ million. That's like winning a small lottery.


I once had a friend who claimed that his DM rolled 7 20s on 7 consecutive D20s. I told him that he was either misremembering, or the die was loaded. The odds of doing that are 1 in 1,280,000,000. Now, I know that someone will claim that it COULD happen, but I still do not believe it happened in his game. That's like winning the lottery 25+ times. Nope. Never happened. Sorry.

 

[Rel]

he is an A.SS

LordBOB, as a moderator, I'd like to ask that you not attempt to bypass the swearing filters.

Especially since you can just say ass. Like this:

Ass ass aSS ass ass ass ass ASS.

Ass is not filtered.

But for 's sake don't say !

 

[Question]

This is why you never roll dice for test characters out of site of the group/DM .

You may get lucky....IN THE WRONG PLACE AND AT THE WRONG TIME.

 

[Particle_Man]

Ok, so I like to make characters in my spare time.

Questions arise: How many other characters have you rolled up? Are you seeing the 5 18s character as the "best of the 1000 characters I rolled up at home for this campaign"?

 

[Crothian]

As a DM, I'd allow it. Since the character would be a bit better then others I'd allow all the other PCs to have the same stats if they wanted to.

 

[Sledge]

As a player I find having all but one very high, is a bit less fun.
I've toned down my own scores in the past and would suggest you do so as well. In fact given that roll, I might just set the character aside and completely reroll. I've had a fair bit of experience with this due to some dice I used to own (long lost now) that must have been unbalanced, because at least half the rolls came up as 6's if you used a proper technique for rolling. Too many high scores can hurt your fun, especially if it gives you an advantage over the other characters.

 

[Silver Moon]

Around twenty years ago when we first started gaming I was fairly generous with my players and said they could roll things up on their own. One player brought in a sheet with six eighteens. I obviously questioned that and he said he could PROVE it was legit. So the next game he brought in the greenbar printout of the computer program he used for a random three-to-eighteen number program with the output in six columns - and sure enough, on Page 372 of his printout were the straight 18's. I told he he could only use that, but needed to play through all of the characters from other 371 pages first.

 

[Delta]

The odds of that are 1 in 250+ billion. That's like winning the lottery 5000+ times...

1 in 250+ billion is 5,000 times less likely than winning a lottery (about 1:50 million), but that's not actually the same as winning a lottery 5,000 times. Independent events like that are multiplicative, not additive, in probability -- the chance of winning a lottery 5,000 times would be 1:50 million to the 5000th power (about 1 in 7x10^38,494).

More: http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/vol6/independent_events.html

 

[Lazybones]

You ever notice how everyone always comes here with stories about how they rolled up incredibly unlikely high-stat combos for characters, but no one ever seems to comment on how they rolled up a character with all 4s and 5s? I haven't done the math, but I'd say an all 5 and less character is probably much more probably (using 4d6 drop lowest) as someone with 5 18s.

I'm sure KarinsDad could give the exact odds...