The most unbelievable dice roll I ever had was playing Necromunda. In a close
combat I had seven dice, my opponent 5. I rolled ALL sixes. Of course, I
immediately made the comment that the only thing that could be worse would be
if he rolled five ones. Which he proved by doing exactly that. A one in 2
billion chance by my calculations.
Anyone else have some amazing dice stories?
Tony.
> On Wednesday, September 11, 2002, at 07:55 PM, DOCAgren@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 8/28/02 2:01:11 AM,
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> Tony wrote:
This was a long while ago, playing AD&D. New player came in with a character,
with all attributes at 18 except one at 17. The GM was naturally suspicious,
so handed the player his own 4D6 and asked new player to reroll every
attribute in front of the GM. After six rolls, the new character had 18 for
every attribute!
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Tony Christney wrote:
> The most unbelievable dice roll I ever had was playing Necromunda.
Almost each and every time Aaron Teske and I got together during the playtest
phase of FB1. He would consistently roll 6s (rolled 13 of them in a row once
for a single beam battery), whatever weapon system he was using whereas
I would consistently miss with p-torps, whatever the range.
This was such a common occurence that it became typical for these rolls to
happen for us. We finally stopped
telling the stories. ;-) (though I think Tomb has a
few of me from an ECC game he ran a few years ago; iirc,
G'day,
> Anyone else have some amazing dice stories?
You know my sad sad stories of old (especially with regard to SMs, but in
truth regard to most weapons).... Indy even made one into his quote of the
week! "Ahhh I've got you now!...what the hell do you mean I rolled 18
ones???!!!"
There is a guy here though that is mind blowing. You give John a SC with a
single beam dice and he'll still give your BDN a threshold in single fire....
the largest number of rerolls so far from a single shot was 36! He's just as
bad in DS, you can just about guarantee that there will be a BOOM chit in his
hand when he pulls it out of the bag, regardless of how many chits he's
pulling!
He's just too mean... especially for me!
Cheers
Playing games with opposed die rolls (Napoleon's Battles, DBA, Fire and Fury)
as the defender (Ties in my favor) I roll equal to or one higher than my
opponent. Or the classic me telling my opponent "OK roll a one" which of
course they do.
Michael Brown
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From: "Tony Christney" <tchristney@telus.net>
> Anyone else have some amazing dice stories?
9 rolls of 3D6, getting 1x5, 2x4, and the rest 3's. Using 3 different sets of
dice. In a tournament, where low = Bad Stuff.
I rarely have good dice rolls. OTOH I have had some amazing streaks of bad
dice rolls. Playing Traveller, I was playing a Vargr Corsair (Vargr are a
canine race in traveller). I had to just NOT roll a critical failure to land
the ship. Guess what? Critical failure! And the same for each and every
recovery roll to try to come out of the crash dive. Fortunately the GM allowed
me to get off the ship without making a roll, otherwise I probably would have
botched that one too. Another time I was playing Risk with a coworker, during
downtime at work. I lost EVERY SINGLE combat, no wins, no ties. Every one.
Statistically that is as close to impossible as can be measured.
John Hamill jwdh71@yahoo.com
> --- Tony Christney <tchristney@telus.net> wrote: