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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5698811" data-attributes="member: 22424">To be fair, it's not a lot of characters - I spend most of my time as DM, and most DMs I have played with haven't insisted on random rolls. But there have been several, and although most don't survive beyond level 2, some have done.As you can no doubt imagine, it is really frustrating!The thing is, it has applied across multiple classes, which means multiple dice (and die types).Probability just seems to go weird when I pick up dice. I miss way more than I should. I hate fumble mechanisms, because I know I'm going to rolling them disproportionately often. And so on. And there are times when my characters are effectively paralysed for entire sessions because I simply cannot make any roll, no matter the odds.But then, every so often I hit a streak of really good rolls - I once destroyed (well, not quite) a squad of 15 goblins (minions) with a single burning hands spell, because although I needed a 10 or so to hit, I rolled a consecutive sequence of fourteen values of 15 or above.As I said, it's really weird.But that's all fine. A fumble is just a fumble, and (generally) survivable. And even if not, losing a character is no big deal - I'll just get a new one.It's just that roll for hit points when levelling up which can really screw up a character long-term. And that's the thing: a bad roll is usually a momentary annoyance (and another chance to laugh at my outrageously bad luck). But that bad roll is potentially months of not enjoying the game.</blockquote>

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