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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 6629874" data-attributes="member: 67338">I had two such players back in 2e (one of them stuck with me through 3e, but neither are with me anymore). Chris and Jimmy, and both I had to handle differently after a while. Maybe my experience with these two will help, maybe not.Before I do tell you let me warn you of something called conformation bias, where you THINK someone is lucky so you only remember good rolls, or think someone unlucky and only remember bad ones...but both have the same random luck.OK so on to my solutions... CHris: Chris had a crazy nack for luck, or so it seemed. He always had high stats, and he crit more often then the rest of the table (jimmy in second example included) put together.  He was also the first min/max rules lawyer my group ever had, so his characters were always better then others (so be careful of that conformation bias). We finaly realized he had the least dice of us, and as such suspected the dice. He (at the time we noticed) only had 2d20, 5d6, and 1 or 2 of each other die (but for some reason had a d3 and a d30 ???). SO I took out a piece of paper and made him roll both d20's 50 times, and you know what we found writing down 50 rolls each... his pink die never not 1 of 50 rolled a 7 or less, but did roll 6 20's and more 18's and 19's then you would think... so we ignored his gree d20 and made him roll that pink die 100 more times, and in 150 rolls, not one 7 or less, and more then 20 times it came up 20... we then did the same with his d6's... roll 4d6 and recording the results... then I made him roll some of my dice, and long behold the normal curve came out.END result- his dice were not rolling right, he bought new dice, and it became a joke that when people really needed a good roll (even into 3e when he was in another state) we would joke "Where is that pink die?"Jimmy: now jimmy was not as easy to notice, he was lucky but he had a hude dice collection. He had over the years not only bought tons, but also would change out sets for characters. HOWEVER, we started to notice that some crits he would leave on the table, others he would snatch right up. We had a real cheater, he had to be watched like a hawk... unlike chris when he left it was for the better. Once we caought on to him we realized he cheated in other ways too... we call it jimmy math to this day "+3 from dex, +3 from bab, +2 magic, + 1 bless, +1 focus, +3 dex, and +3 bab so I have +17" and we still call the +1 floating jimmy bless, since once he tried to call +1 bless in his math in a game with no spell casters...so if this player is cheating, watch and audit. if this player has a die that really isn't as random... make him buy a new one.</blockquote>

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