08-05-2020, 09:21 AM | #11 |
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Re: Dice superstitions and rituals
My former gaming group was convinced that my dice were cursed against them because every time anyone else used my dice they would often roll badly in one case it was truly epic. I would often mess with them by doing a "dice curse" on them when they would roll. Personally the only thingI do that might count as a superstition is keeping all my dice but the ones I'm using that game secession in a large dice bag I think of as the "Hive Mind". Some times I roll badly or well, as long as I'm having fun I don't care. Some times those bad games were the most fun I've had.
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08-05-2020, 12:35 PM | #12 | |
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Location: Upper Peninsula of Michigan
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I have no superstitions around using dice, and I'm perfectly well aware of what observation bias is, but... it seems like any time I start a new campaign as a player, my dice debut is always horrid. I can never make a cool first impression. An extreme example was my first online game, a Rifts campaign where skills can be fairly low-probability: it took multiple sessions before I even passed my first roll. Ever since then, I always ensure, as much as possible, that at least one skill or other important feature is, I won't say minmaxed, but very well fed at least. |
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08-05-2020, 02:30 PM | #13 |
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Re: Dice superstitions and rituals
One of my best dice story was when I was using a physics-based dice roller on a tablet. It had this issue of, on occasion, one of the dice would fall off the screen and, apparently, into the void. It happened to each of the three of us using it, numerous times. It wasn't really an issue, just occasionally, you'd lose a die. Load a new die and roll again.
This came to a head one night, when playing, and one of the dice came back. It came back to provide for the worst critical failure in our GURPS history. I rolled three dice, and wound up with four sixes. I rolled a 24. It was hilarious. |
08-07-2020, 04:09 PM | #14 |
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Shropshire, uk
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Re: Dice superstitions and rituals
I once spent time gaming with someone who flat out refused to use d4 or d6, because per him 'they didn't roll properly'. Much fiddling and pleading was employed to avoid having to use them, even for one DnD game making someone else roll his hit die for him.
Our attempts to get him to join a GURPS game were... Memorable. |
08-07-2020, 11:39 PM | #15 | |
Join Date: Oct 2005
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08-08-2020, 02:54 AM | #16 |
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Shropshire, uk
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I believe we could have, but ultimately since this was one of his less disruptive eccentricities we settled for a long GURPS campaign and him moving on elsewhere.
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08-08-2020, 03:53 AM | #17 |
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Location: Cambridge, UK
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Re: Dice superstitions and rituals
I had a period of designing a lot of custom dice in 2015-16 and getting them made by the Chessex Custom Shop. I now have the quirk "Only plays GURPS with dice of his own design."
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08-08-2020, 09:31 AM | #18 | |
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I have this weird thing were I (and my first gaming group) expect player rolls to be luckier than GM rolls, and when we really want an NPC to succeed, I hand off the roll to a player (so the other players can blame their luck instead of mine)
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08-08-2020, 07:11 PM | #19 |
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Location: Southeast NC
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Re: Dice superstitions and rituals
I've heard of people who left their dice on 20 so that they "get used to it" and roll a 20 more often. But one figured that over the life of a die it will spend about 5% of the time on any given side, and kept them on 1 to use up that time.
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08-08-2020, 07:18 PM | #20 | |
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Location: Southeast NC
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He basically told us "if you switch to GURPS I'm leaving." Our response was basically "is that all it would take?"
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