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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 767654" data-attributes="member: 6929">I've always been fascinated by probability, especially when (over the course of an entire campaign) one player discovered that, roughly 50% of the time, he'd roll a 3 or a 5 on the d20. Good thing he developed a good BAB. This is a sustained phenomenon, using any d20 the group supplied him (and when I borrowed his, to roll massive monster attacks, I always rolled high). We started to attribute it to negative vibes in the end.In related news, I tried something back in school for a statistics project. I took a d6, rolled it 20 times and recorded the numbers it came up - while concentrating on '1', then repeated with '2' etc. I wasn't really suprised that I got something like 20% higher results on the number I was concentrating on at the time for every single number.I'm not convinced that it's psychokinesis, but I really do try to roll as randomly as possible. Maybe it's subconscious manipulation of the dice on a microscopic scale? If the human mind can calculate the parabolic trajectory of a thrown ball, it might be able to pick up on the subtle 6-degree trajectory of a polyhedron... just guessing, of course, but every second time I looked at my watch in high school it read 42 seconds (+/-1sec), indicating that something about the brain is outside our current comprehension.And I'm not making any of this up. I'm a believer in the scientific method, after all; the statistics seem to indicate that something's going on that we don't understand.</blockquote>

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