If a judge is wearing an official T-shirt ...

[JohnF]

... does he get a free re-roll during a scenario?

[Michael Brock]

No he doesn't but I definitely don't mind if he allows one of his players to use his shirt as a goodwill gesture. I do that every game that I GM.

[JohnF]

That's kind of what I meant - I don't regard a table as "Judge vs. Players"

I wouldn't use it to re-roll an BBEG attack, but I was thinking of possibly allowing a player to retry a saving throw.

[Andrew Christian]

Yup, it seems to be coming fairly common practice to allow a "table" re-roll from the Judge's shirt.

[Thursty]

Good to know!

I know that sometimes I've gone ahead and used my 'GM Shirt' re-roll to make up for a potential PC killing crit if it comes up at a bad point. Thus far, I've only ever used this in Module play - since they're particularly deadly compared to scenarios.

[DigitalMage]

Could a GM use a re-roll on an NPC hoping for a lower result?

For example, a GM rolls a natural 20 (an auto hit and potential critical) - the GM knows that the PC may die if the crit confirms and even if it doesn't the PC is going to be dying. Could the GM re-roll the attack hoping to either get a miss, or at least not a threat?

I assume if the GM is running a PreGen PC to make up numbers a re-roll could also be used for that character, yes?

[Andrew Christian]

In general, and you would find some players and GM’s who will vehemently disagree with me, a GM doesn’t need a reroll, because if a GM wants a lower roll (so as to make it fair—no TPK—because the players are rolling crap all night and the GM is rolling nothing but crits) they just fudge their roll lower. I would never, however, fudge a roll in favor of the opponents of the PCs, as a GM.

I would say that if you give the “table” a reroll with your GM shirt, and the “table” agrees that the GM NPC (to make a 3 person table legal) needs to reroll, then that would use up the “table” reroll.

[MisterSlanky]

I like to wear all four of my VC polos at once and use each recollection to confirm death crits.

Okay I don't, but I do give a "shirt reroll to every brand new PFS player and I do give my shirt reroll to the table as do many other GMs.

[Jiggy]

Ryan Bolduan wrote:

I like to wear all four of my VC polos at once and use each recollection to confirm death crits.

He even pre-rolls the crit damage to make sure it would be lethal before he blows a reroll on it! ;)

[Leg o' Lamb]

Ryan Bolduan wrote:

I do give my shirt reroll to the table as do many other GMs.

And one of my characters is alive today because of this.

[Dan Luckett]

I think I will start offering my VC shirt reroll for this.

[Chris Mortika]

I make a habit of this, I stole it from Doug, but only when none of the players have reroll shirts themselves. If everybody has a faction shirt, they don't get another reroll from me.

[Purple Fluffy CatBunnyGnome]

I've been known to sometimes offer a one time only GM Reroll if it's critical roll for the scenario .. if they bomb it with my reroll then well they bombed it.

[teribithia9]

Chris Mortika wrote:

I make a habit of this, I stole it from Doug, but only when none of the players have reroll shirts themselves. If everybody has a faction shirt, they don't get another reroll from me.

I do this, too.

[Dan Luckett]

I hadn't even remembered that my VC shirt was a reroll shirt till this thread came about. So 2-3 sessions not realizing it since it took a bit for the shirts to arrive. They be some comfy shirts though. I swear they have "endure elements" cast on them.