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>it's my lucky d20
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>>44273732
That's just a code word for "I've got loaded dice."
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>>44273757
No, it's just the one you threw in the freezer every time it rolled a one. Until it learned.
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>>44273732
I hope none of you jackasses actually believes in this luck shit
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>>44273732
No it isn't, dipshit
D20s don't roll five 20s in a row. Or six, seven, eight, nine, or ten 20s in a row.
I can see you rolling it. I sit right beside you. The last half a dozen times you rolled it, you got a number less than ten and immediately picked it back up.
Fuck you.
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>>44274853
>The last half a dozen times you rolled it, you got a number less than ten and immediately picked it back up.
the fuck? there are people who do this?
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>>44274899
I've seen this behavior too and it's irritating

the only way to NOT win D&D is by gaming it too hard and trying only to "win", cheating or not. It's as pointless as beating a vidya using cheats. Good job you accomplished absolutely nothing.
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>>44275186
>not trying to out do your group to get the "winotaur"
>Not gaming with a overdramatic dyke, emo chick and father.
>All with a gm who makes the baby the plot character and hands out sheets
that comic is so real man
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>>44275186
>Beating a vidya game WITHOUT using cheats
Congratulations you accomplished nothing.

The point of a TTRPG is to have fun and for some winning is more fun than losing.
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>>44275288
my point is that you literally cannot lose when your DM knows that TTRPG is not a competitive vidya. So trying to "win" is only pushing more emphasis on the game aspect while diminishing any story/atmosphere.

>stormwind fallacy hurdurdaderp
don't even
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>>44273732
>I don't care this a percentile system and you can't use it.
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>>44273732
>it's a greentext/reaction image thread.
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>>44274853
I am not a hardball DM at all and still laugh and say "you fail" whenever I see someone try that. How are there people so meek that they can't do that but can somehow still run a campaign?
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Do anybody else have an DM who would invert the d20 value (ie 1= 20, 19= 2 ect) just to weed out loaded dice?
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>>44276206
That.. wow. Those GMs need to fucking chill.
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>>44276292
Honestly I don't mind it, Felt like your bad luck was paying off.
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Jokes on them I just always roll lucky on any dice.
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>>44276449
Bullshit, there would ALWAYS be a player at your table who would slow shit to a crawl with that system, don't lie.
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>>44275245
I don't get table titans
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Fuck, my loser friends buy into this "special dice" shit. It's pathetic. People need to take responsibility.

I know I'm an entropic being from another world, so I'll usually just politely borrow their "lucky dice," roll miserably all session, and then give them back to make them cry.
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>>44280222

My "special dice" is the one that's the most aesthetically pleasing.

Or the one that has the most novelty factor to it.

The lucky one is the one that screws me over the least.
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>>44273732
>Not having a large pool dice to hand
>Not getting your group roll different dice all the time to bring you all closer to true randomness
Let's not even get started on the arguments I've had with my friend that many dice is more likely to produce even spreads than one.
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>>44280254
>My "special dice" is the one that's the most aesthetically pleasing

I do that too. My special dice are my ten d10s. I use them for WoD shit and Rogue Trading.
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>>44274853
>D20s don't roll five 20s in a row. Or six, seven, eight, nine, or ten 20s in a row.
They do, but that should happen very few times out of many rolls, that's what statistics are about
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>"Is just an app I made"
>Never ever rolls below 10
Dude, no, I don't care how "that can happen with real dice too" shit you say
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>>44280344
>>44280254
>It's my "special" dice
>Sounds like your kind of dice!
Bantz.
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>>44273732
>single line of greentext
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>>44274853
If I ever saw someone doing that at my table, I'd take the result as a natural 1 with some creatively horrible fumbles.

But luckily I don't have to play with subhuman pricks, so it never happens.
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>>44275288
hahahahha

there are actually people like this
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Are there actually people pathetic enough to invest the time or money to get loaded dice? In a cooperative game that's about experiencing a story and adventure together?
Holy shit, that's just sad.
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>>44281119
All dices are loaded in the sense that they tend to fall in one side more than the others.
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>>44275288
>Beating a videogame is an accomplishment

It's pathetic either way.
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>>44281215
But that only shows when you roll them 100's of times and record the results. I got casino level precision dice last year and they're great!
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>>44281215
I meant "dice that are loaded to a noticable/reasonably applicable degree".
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Well it technically is my lucky d20. I measured its average rolls by rolling it 500 times onto the table we usually play at (I host). Final results showed that the 19 side came up around 9.4% of the time instead of the average 4-6% of the time with any of the other sides. The 1 side was on the lower end with only a 4.4% chance.
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>>44275288
If you're choosing a category of game that runs on cooperation, imagination, and where the guy controling the entire world wants you to succeed as your outlet for highly competitive effort, you're a fucking retard.

It's like training all year to dominate at the parents vs kid softball game. If you want to powergame and focus on WINNING there are bajillions of better outlets for it, so doing it in D&D or whatever is a sign of some kind of retardation.

If you think you're "good" at D&D because you can do second grade math, pick the best skills and disconnect your humanity while designing your combatmonster, encounterwarping character, you're like a person who jumps into a sandbox, aggressively builds the tallest sandcastle and screams SUCK IT NERDS at the toddlers. Yes, congratulations, you won at sandcastle, but you're missing the point and you clearly hang out with other retards so much that you don't notice how silly you are.

On top of that you have that whole mentality of people who think that any kind of effort at immersion or role-playing is for faggots and that role-playing should be like world of warcraft without graphics, and I just feel like they have some kind of condition.

If you want to WIN, just play some videogame online against other people who are trying to win so there's an actual competition, don't inflict it on your happy fun time friends who want to roll dice and experience cool stories.

The fiction is the whole point of pen and paper role-playing, because that's it's strength, you can do ANYTHING. But it's a terrible outlet for competitive urges and the people who use it for that are clearly scared of actual competition and just use it to feel better at something irrelevant than their friends are. Like, congrats, you're slightly more effective at killing orcs fast than everyone else, we're so psyched to have you.
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>>44281262
Unless you are replacing those dice every 8 hours, they aren't truly casino dice. Also, true casino dice roll like shit (as in they don't roll on the table at all) Just regular chessex dice work well enough. It's like why buy a 30$ laxative that makes your shit cold when the $5 laxative works just as well.
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>>44281406
Found the role player
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>>44273912
>not believing in luck
>on /tg/
>he doesn't show propering veneration of the Dice Gods
>anno alea MMXV
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>>44273912
Lady luck is the only god I know buddy
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>>44273912
Looks like someone didn't sacrificed to the Dice Gods this month.
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