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[-] SARGE@startrek.website 26 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I'm always a fan of "best possible outcome" for 20, and "worst possible outcome that doesn't immediately kill anyone" for nat1.

If you're 2ft tall and trying to destroy an iron wall and roll a 20, you successfully scrape some iron off the wall. It doesn't just collapse spontaneously. If you roll a ~~0~~ 1, your attack bounces off and your weapon breaks. Luckily it didn't rebound and hit you.

It makes things more believable, however rule of cool is obviously above that. So if you can do a flip off a cliff onto the back of a dragon and convince it to attack the tarrasque for you before it eats you, and roll a 20 for all that, you better believe that dragon now considers you it's deity, and will die in a ball of flames, acid, ice, etc, in your name while flying headfirst down the tarrasque's throat. The tarrasque obviously dies from this, since it's so epic.

I guess it really depends on the stakes.

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

How do you roll a zero

Edit: if thats O'Brien im guessing a transporter problem

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

-1 Charisma has given me a few zeros.

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Yeah but not natural 0s

[-] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago

Don’t you use a 21 sided die?

[-] its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago

I used to have one. It had three different faces with 7 sides each. It was from some math game, but the faces were a triangle, a square, and a circle. No idea how you would use it, but it acted as a fancy D3.

[-] moondoggie@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

That’s the thing: if you manage to roll a zero EVERYTHING goes wrong, all the worst outcomes happen, and the DM makes you go home.

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Ad a DM, its what I'd do. "Sorry bud youre cursed apparently"

[-] Damage@feddit.it 4 points 6 days ago

Congratulations, you've fucked the universe in and out of the game!

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You know, quantum resonance in the Heisenberg compensators. Sometimes the dice spit out an impossible number.

Don't even get me started on the time we rolled a natural negative

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Using Gygax's special dice for 2.5E?

[-] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago
[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 days ago

As per Sir Terry Pratchett, a Million-to-one chance succeeds nine times out of ten.

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