playing BG3
rolls 3 1s in a row
enables the option for “fairer dice”
rolls another 3 1s in a row
Fair dice was broken, at least a launch. If you had a really high armor class the NPCs would get an absurd number of nat 20s if that was the only way they could hit you.
One of the things I like from d&d 3.5 is the critical system, where an attacker who rolled a 20 makes a critical threat, but must roll again and hit to confirm the critical, so people with high AC don’t get hit critically every time they are hit
In PF2e, you get Hero Points which allow you to reroll checks. We use a house rule that if you use a Hero Point and roll the same number on the die, you must use that number (no more rerolls) however you don’t spend your Hero Point.
It comes up surprisingly often.
Statistically it comes up 5% of the time you use a hero point, so yeah, about as often as rolling a nat 20.
Yep! But there’s typing that out, and then there’s experiencing it first hand, and the latter can be surprising. ;)
Yeah, human brains are bad at statistics, so logical outcomes can still surprise us.
People typically don’t use fair dice. There’s often a much higher than 1/20 chance of getting a particular result
Dice are polished to remove molding marks, which also rounds off edges and makes faces different sizes
But they are polished equally on each side, right?
They often are polished the way rocks are, tumbled with abrasives, which randomly wears them down
Few expensive dice will be polished carefully
I trust internet dice rollers over commodity dice, d6 is pretty much the only one easy to get fair versions made for the gambling industry
How do you know all that?
I read a lot and own game science dice. Game science described the process in their marketing to explain how their dice were different
