Too many natural 20s

[cwhs01]

I'll just paraphrase a friend of mine. Hope the joke isn't lost in translation

"why is confirmation bias allways happening to me?"

 

[benjamin]

Maybe they are famous last words for a DM...

"OK, <lol> cool idea, it's not very likely, but I'll let it happen if you get... say a 19 or 20"

...rolls...

"Oh!"

<all lol>

Ben

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I have a particular dice that seems to be lucky for me.

First attack roll of a new campaign, guess what? Natural 20!

 

[benjamin]

I was once playing ludo with my 7 year old son.

He got all his men through bar one... he needed to role a one to finish off the game... I had only one guy through out of seven.

He roled 47d6 without getting a single one.

I won the game...

The very next role he made... after I got my last guy home was...

...you guessed it...

...a one.

Good opportunity to teach him about probability... and statistics...

Ben

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[Donovan Morningfire]

It is amazing how a consistent string of natural 20's can wreck an encounter in short order, as the GM for a Star Wars game I play in could agree witih, given I was playing a Jedi with a highly alarming tendency to get a natural 20 on his Use the Force checks with regular ease, be it using Force powers or even just the Block/Deflect talents. The whole balance of SWSE tends to get wonky when you've got a Force-user whose power suite completely refreshes every other round

One of the other players actually did a statistical analysis of player dice rolls (he claims it's a relaxing diversion for him), and come to find that statistically speaking young Zayne will roll a 20 on every 3rd or 4th Use the Force check, and only once has rolled below a 15 on said checks. Not as scary as the Mando Soldier when he got a nat 20 using the Burst Fire feat, rolling 5d8 plus bonuses as early as 3rd level.

 

[roguerouge]

Not the point, I know, but you might want to talk to your DM about easing up on the throttle a bit. You've got an average party level of 6.6 (converting to a 4 character team) vs. an encounter level of 11, which the SRD encounter generator describes as overpowering.

I hope, at least, that the DM was using morale and evening the encounter by having some of the orc mooks run away when some of them went down.

 

[possum]

It can happen with virtual dice, too. I was playing in a Star Wars game on OpenRPG and the GM kept getting crits during the final battle of one of our sessions of the Dawn of Defiance game. I don't a one of us survived completely unscathed from that combat.

 

[Obryn]

Somewhat surprisingly, I have a set of amber Gamescience dice that just tend to roll really, really high.

I don't get it. I mean, they're fair dice - in theory the fairest out there. And yet, while DMing, I get more than my fair share of 17-20 results... I'm really glad that I roll all my dice in the open, because I'd hardly believe it myself.

-O