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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4477857" data-attributes="member: 19675">The dice giveth and the dice taketh away- In 30 years of gaming, I've been on both sides of extremely unlikely strings of rolls, and on both sides of the screen.  Enjoy the ride when its in your favor.The Good (Player):  My 1Ed/2Ed Human Ftr/Cleric of Tyr (essentially "epic" level campaign) had 2 weapons, a Vorpal Longsword and a Mace of Disruption.  She routinely received Nat20s at least once per combat, beheading or disrupting a major foe.  The best was when the party was on an Evil demi-plane, being attacked by a Lich and several Deathknights.  She waded in and popped a Nat20 on the Lich on round 1.  The DM ruled that- due to our location- the disruption would only be successful with a second Nat20...which I rolled.  The Lich was destroyed.I asked what were the odds that Tyr had noticed this improbable occurrence, he responded "1 in 100"...so I rolled a 1 on my percentile dice.  Rolling his eyes, the DM said, "Tyr will reward you, and there is a 1 in 100 chance that he will do so personally."The DM rolled a 1- exasperated, he said "Tyr appears in a shaft of light, grants you an additional Ftr level and dissappears."<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The Bad (Player): A DarkSun campaign, I'm running a Dwarf Warrior (Wild Talent Psi) with a maxed out Con.  A mage he and his partner were fighting tried an AE poison cloud spell to keep the Dwarf off of him while he concentrated on the Dwarf's ally.  The Dwarf, trusting in his racial bonuses versus magic and poison charged right in...failing his save vs magic (1% chance) & his subsequent save vs poison (1% chance).  The mage, capitalizing on this, targeted the Dwarf with a polymorph spell- again the Dwarf failed vs magic.  As he morphed into a toad, he tried to make his system shock roll (1% chance) and failed, dying instantly.Do the math on THAT!The Bad (DM): My players planned (without my knowledge) an ambush of the campaign's BBEG in a marketplace.Round 1- The Paladin (the statistical and philosophical analog to my Ftr/Clc of Tyr above) walked up talking to to the BBEG politely...and just stabbed at him.  He failed his surprise roll, his bodyguards failed theirs.  The BBEG rolled a 4 for init, his bodyguards a 5.  No PC rolled under a 14.The Paladin struck 2 times, critted both, maxed one and nearly maxed the other, dropping the BBEG down to about 3HP, whereafter the BBEG failed his save vs massive damage and died.  The party got similarly lucky virtually wiping out the guards, and the druid cast a spell turning the party into a flock of ravens that then flew away.Round 2- I gawp.</blockquote>

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