So, you roll 6 18's.

[Conaill]

18 on 4d6, drop lowest = 21 in 1296
21 in 1296 ^ 6 = 85766121 / 4738381338321616896

Not quite never. Better than one in a trillion.

About one in 55 billion, in fact.

I'm not sure how Halivar came up with 7.15 in one million, but that one was way off.


If this were ever to happen to me, I would apologize to the DM for using a set of dice which were obviously biased, discard them, and roll again with a different set of dice.

 

[SWBaxter]

Your chances of rolling all 18's rolling 4d6-drop is 7.15 in one million.

Your chances of rolling all 18's rolling 3d6-straight is 1.75 in ten million.

Er, no. 3d6 straight is 1 in 100 trillion or thereabouts. It's probably never happened in the history of D&D (or any of the other games that use 3d6 for some stats, like BRP). 4d6 drop lowest is on the order of 1 in 50 billion, again it's probably never happened. Legitimately, anyway, I run into lots of folks who remember "this one guy in my gaming group way back when..."

Your chances of getting struck by lightning each year is 1 in five million.

If you ever roll all 18's, run.

A closer comparison would be the odds of a civilization-ending space impact, or the Yellowstone supervolcano going off in the next few minutes. Then again, they're (probably) independent events, so only the superstitious really need to worry.

 

[ender_wiggin]

Uh. My head says 40 in one trillion (4.033 * 10 ^ -11)

Where's this 7.15 in one million coming from?

 

[Conaill]

Highly unlikely may be a stretch too. If you think of all the players that have rolled up characters in the past 30 years. Though some didn't use 3d6, given the ones who did, I bet statistcally, it has happpened!!!

Let's see... if we believe Paize that there's 4 million D&D players, and let's arbitrarily say that the average D&D player has played for about 10 years. If each of those players rolled more than three characters a day, every single day for ten years, then yes, that 1-in-55-billion chance does start to become statistically likely. But that's getting a bit far-fetched, don't you think?

 

[ender_wiggin]

Ah . you guys are right.

1.818 * 10^-11

Flip a coin, it comes up heads 36 times in a row.

 

[Particle_Man]

Hey waitaminite!

This could be the chance to play the toughest Commoner EVAR!

 

[rgard]

Let's see... if we believe Paize that there's 4 million D&D players, and let's arbitrarily say that the average D&D player has played for about 10 years. If each of those players rolled more than three characters a day, every single day for ten years, then yes, that 1-in-55-billion chance does start to become statistically likely. But that's getting a bit far-fetched, don't you think?

Ya, probably far-fetched. But you do have to add in those who rolled dice 30 years ago and stopped playing after a couple of years.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

I would ask if I could drop one of the stats to an eight. The eight would go into Wisdom, because the idea of a character with those kind of stats and the common sense of a gerbil seems like a lot of fun! Dashingly heroic, and a sucker for every sob story or con game that comes around.

Probably a Rogue/Something Else (maybe sorcerer, I don't play them much). Or, if I ever get Complete Warrior, maybe a Swashbuckler.

The Auld Grump

 

[Particle_Man]

Once, rolling 4d6 drop the lowest, I got 4 ones! I put that '3' into wisdom and played a swashbuckler! Great minds think alike!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I once played a 1Ed PC with 18s in all the physical stats (18/00 Str), and 6s in all the mental stats.

Bear was a fighter who adopted the amoral party thief as his role model, mentor, and guide...and defended him at all costs. When that PC stole something he shouldn't have, Bear held the bridge against the City Watch- to his death- in order to let the party escape.

The party recieved 33% of the value of the stolen goods upon delivering the thief's body to the City Watch.