What happens when you roll. . . a zero?

[Zappo]

Pffh. That's nothing. I rolled -1 on my Spot checks several times. And one time that I had circumstance penalties, -2.

 

[Altalazar]

"What a pretty fountain" - (what is seen on a 'zero spot' when there is a nice fountain on the one hand, and on the other, somewhere in the background, two demi-gods are fighting out on the desert plains)

 

[jdrakeh]

Are you missing a 'not' in that last sentence?

I was wondering about that, too. The only game that I've ever read that advocated screwing players over (besides HoL) was AD&D 1e and even then, that wasn't what the game was about (really, said advocacy isn't rampant, merely existant).

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

We house rule a -10 modifier to all natural 1's and a +10 modifier to all natural 20's... as such, I've rolled a lot of zeros/negative numbers... it usually just happens that I notice a beautiful tree on the horizon, or happened to be singing to myself quite loudly, or had greasy fingers from the food I just ate, etc...

 

[tetsujin28]

Are you missing a 'not' in that last sentence?

Yep I fixed it.

 

[tensen]

I am a player in Wulf's excellent Slavelords of Cydonia PbP.. For a spot check in a snake filled temple, my character (Teddy) got a zero. That's right, a natural one minus his wisdom penalty equals zero. What, exactly, does Teddy see?

Immediate ingame houserule. The character goes blind!!!
See, thats what you get for drinking the moonshine that the villagers make