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The frickin' dice-roller! Oh how it loves to toy with me...
I am currently in 4 pbps, and in every one of them, I've had an extended period of crappy rolls at one point or another.
Examples:
In one campaign, my human fighter will often either miss completely, or hit, only to roll a 1 for damage. This has been dubbed the "rubber sword syndrome" by all the game's participants.
My inquisitor of Erastil missed 6 of 8 longbow shots against goblins in the Rise of the Runelords pbp.
My gillman sorcerer was nearly lost at sea during a storm due to several consecutive lousy rolls in the Skulls and Shackles campaign .
On the flip side, there seem to be those moments when the right roll comes at the.most improbable moment.
The last arrow my Inquisitor fired was into melee, it rolled a 20, then confirmed the crit, then proceeded to roll nearly maximum damage.
My human fighter once skewered and archer through an arrow slit with a similar set of unlikely rolls.
Anyone else have some amusing dice-roller results to share?
I had a goblin rogue with a 5 Charisma. He could never get above a 0 on his Bluff and Diplomacy checks.
Didn't help that we were in Rise of the Runelords and everybody wanted him dead. XD
In our Age of Worms game, we had a touch-and-go encounter in Hall of Harsh Reflections (if you played it, you know which one). My PC needed a natural 20 to succeed on a vital Will save and she made it, plus she managed to roll a natural 20 for a critical hit. Without the Will save, it could well have been a TPK for the group.
My dwarven oracle of stone with tongues curse dropped one goblin in thee Rise of Runelords intro with a single crossbolt. All the other goblins danced circles around her.Out of neatly three cases of bolts from a repeating crossbow she missed. The same with crappy melee rolls with her maulaxe.
Them she rolled Nat 20s on Intimidate checks--cowing the goblin dog and becoming its new master and succeeds the Handle Animal checks needed to make it attack its former master for maximum damage. The Dog Bites Back,indeed...
And every Acid Touch did grievous melty harm--melting one to slimy bones.