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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 5249331" data-attributes="member: 8461">Hey guys, thanks for the responses so far. Here's some clarification on the situation.I'm not the GM for this game, I'm one of the players. From what I can tell, I'm the only person who really seems to care about this other player's extraordinary luck to the point of suspicion. If anyone else feels even slightly upset about it, they're not saying so at all.Based on what I can remember, the player who originally had the crystal dice (before selling them to their current owner) wasn't using them. However, they did have some kind of reputation, but I can't confirm if they were known as "the dice that always rolled really well," or just "those awesome-looking crystal dice."He's been using them for almost half-a-dozen sessions now, and I swear that they never fail to regularly turn out high roll after high roll.Having said all that, I'm tentatively going to agree with the people who suggested that I should at least gather some more data to try and dispel any possibility of confirmation bias on my part. I don't think that's affecting my judgment...but then, that's sort of the definition of bias to begin with. I also agree with Nightson's point about how, since the range of numbers are widely distributed across a die's surface, there should still be a mix of high and low numbers...something that also makes me doubt myself somewhat.A further reason to be suspicious of my own judgment here is that, currently, this other player and I are the only players in our Pathfinder game. We had four, but the original owner of the crystal dice left the group due to mounting real-life problems, and our third player has missed several sessions lately due to an erratic work schedule. As such, my feelings of being overshadowed by this guy's uber-rolls might be magnified since I'm the only one being outshone.Maybe after the game next time, he'll let me borrow his dice and perform some dunk-tests on them. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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