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Just wanted to share a completely improbable event that happened last night at our PACG OP night.
WesWagner, Xebeche, our VL, his wife and I were playing Nature's Wrath. We built the locations as normal, shuffled them as normal, and began play. We proceeded to draw barriers 8 straight times. On the ninth draw we drew a monster (there were no more barriers in that location) and then we drew 3 more barriers in a row as we went around the table. Growing increasingly suspicious of somehow all of us incorrectly remembering shuffling when we did not we peeked at a couple of locations and found that indeed the locations were randomized, and we somehow shuffled 11 barriers to the top of the deck.
I am curious if anyone who is good at math and has access to the location breakdowns of that scenario can calculate the odds of that happening.
It was downright uncanny...
We've definitely had instances where the first card of, like, four out of six locations is a henchman or villain and you start wondering if you're cursed, and we've definitely encounter Whalebone Plik like 5-6 times in a row when he's one of two cards left in the deck, but nothing on your level, Nog. I really enjoy being a part of that sort of weird, improbable stuff, like when both Enchanters or both Sirens somehow end up in the same location. If that'd happened to us I think I'd be thrilled just by the sheer absurdity of it.
(plus I like turning over barriers way more than I do monsters, and S&S has delivered that in spades).
I once got distracted mid-way through set-up and built locations containing all the boons and henchmen, but no ordinary monsters or barriers.
Took us quite a while to figure out that it wasn't just really lucky shuffling...
After I shuffle a location deck, I almost always roll a d10 (or smaller if I am reshuffling a deck) to determine where to "cut" the deck. That way i can blame it on the dice, not my terrible shuffling / cutting.
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After I shuffle a location deck, I almost always roll a d10 (or smaller if I am reshuffling a deck) to determine where to "cut" the deck. That way i can blame it on the dice, not my terrible shuffling / cutting.
We had to do something like this last night when we faced Whalebone Pilk in the last open location with just one other card. Shuffling 2 cards is challenging when you really, really want to have them ordered a certain way. So shuffle under the table and then roll 1-3 change the order, 4-6 don't.
Still faced him 3 times like this where he was the top card of two ...
Just your terrible die rolling.
My terrible die rolling is a matter of public record. It is almost always brought out when my girlfriend starts says something along the lines of "You only fail that check if you roll two 1s."
On a more amusing / less unfortunate note, the other week my girlfriend and I were deciding what game to play one evening. I grabbed a d12 and said "Odds, we play the DC Deckbuilding game, Evens we play PACG". She replied "You're stacking things in DC's favor, since you're probably going to roll a 1." I proceeded to roll a 1, and she cracked up laughing.
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Noone ever rolls 4 1s on 4 d20...
Unless someone tells them it would never happen. I don't believe in things like that actually making a difference, but I am alone that way in my group. Once in a while I'll say things like that just to scare them. "Should we play this blessing on you?" "No, I'm fine. I have 4 d12 + 2d6 + 1d8 + 6 to get 19, there's no way I could ever roll that low."
Then you hear a boom as every single other person at the wooden table starts knocking on it like their lives depended on it.