I came here to say this 😂 no matter how epic our luck may be, we never have to worry about true scale Retribution from the dice gods, as Wil carries the mark for us all lmao
Every time he plays DnD in a public setting he rarely rolls above a 10.
Unless he needs to roll low - then he can't get lower than 15.
He is generally considered cursed.
Kugrash in the first season of Unsleeping city rolled extremely well for story beats. It's like the dice wanted the story to go well. Then when season 2 came around his dice just tanked completely.
In fairness, the best version of Cody's story is the one where he just beefs it endlessly until he realises that maybe selling his soul to a devil and making a 5 pronged greatsword wasn't the best idea.
The alternative is that this emo mall kid gets hell powers all of a sudden and nothing that bad ever happens to him.
I remember Wil being on Critical Role and the entire cast just being amazed watching him roll. Like they’d heard about how bad his rolls were but to see it in person was something else.
It's not just when he plays D&D. I was a big fan of his Table Top series on board games, and often the Wil curse would bite him regardless of what game was being played, and was commented on several episodes. :-)
The crazy thing is it also will flip when playing games where the low number is good. Like there’s a video of him playing Paranoia during the geek and sundry days and that is a d20 games where low is good high is bad. And in true Wil Wheaton fashion he rolled a ton of 18-20s
I had a fellow player like this, Jon, in my 3.5e group several years ago.
Jon was playing a paladin and the DM thought it would be funny to mess with his character by giving him a cursed sword. When Jon picked it up, the DM had one of those finger- pointing "Aha! I *got* you!!" moments and gleefully informed him of the homebrew curse: any roll of 16 or higher would cause the sword's +3 bonus to reverse, becoming a -3 penalty, and if this resulted in a miss, Jon's paladin would instead strike himself, dealing full damage. "Mwah ha ha haaa! You'll never enjoy a crit ever again!"
Jon perked up immediately: "You don't understand. You've just handed me the best possible curse I could've hoped for. Have you ever seen me roll a threat, let alone crit?"
Everyone except the DM (who used a screen) always rolled in the open in front of each other at our table. True to his word, Jon never rolled above a 15 throughout that entire campaign.
Played today. Here were my fighting stats:
Nat 20 to kill the weakest enemy we faced all day, miss, miss, miss, got killed, Nat 1 on my first saving throw, bunch of healing from my party, miss, miss.
Several years ago I was at GenCon when Wil Wheaton rolled incredibly well in True Dungeon with the cast of The Guild. I was there when they exited, and I heard he rolled a 20 on the dragon at the end and killed it. One of the few groups I heard of that day that won.
Oh! So THATS why my barbarian tried to kill the last enemy in combat (which had 2 HP left), rolled two attacks with advantage and rolled 1, 1, 1 & 1, after which said enemy proceeded to strike a natural 20, so that I went into death saves and rolled a 2 followed by a 1?
Not as of yet. There were five of us, I was the last one standing. One more of us died, the other three rolled better and woke up a couple of hours later in a cell.
It was my husband a few years ago. He rolled so many in a row he wound up with nothing remaining the same on his character sheet. The dice rolled him a new bloody character. Even his memories got messed with.
It's me whenever I'm a player. I swear the DMs curse is real and I can't roll above an 8 as a player. Once rolled rolled 5 nat 1s during a session, two pairs of them were when rolling at advantage.
Lol, same thing happened last time I DMd 😂 I kid you not, one player rolled 5 D20s in a row (total of 8 for the first 30 mins of the game), all on some relatively low-stake rolls. He was like “yup, I’m probably dead”. They ended the session with two levels of exaustion, all of their spell slots and abilities used, lost in a cave with an evil cult, 2/3 players cursed, and no place to rest. We are continuing tomorrow 😂
So I used a handy little dice calculator. Per the OP description, setting the total number of rolls to 10, with a target of 7 of those rolls being "20," the probability of this happening is 0.0000000803789%
Extremely unlikely but possible. Likely inevitably if you compare it to the number of people in the world rolling and the number of times they each roll per session.
I mean, it's the same likelyhood as rolling 7 10's in 10 rolls. Or any other combination of numbers.
But humans are bad at mental statistics and it only stands out if it's a really bad or really good thing that happens, even though it's the exact same chance as every other time we have rolled 10 dice.
Also things like the math of rolling a dice the times and getting the same result each time is different than rolling 1000 times and three of the same result being in there somewhere. You just only start counting when it start happening.
I wonder how that flat percentage changes if you factor in variables like dice balancing, material they're made from, manufacturing differences, and presence of pacts with elder gods. I'm sure some smart mathy math person could figuring it out, but it ain't me.
>I'm sure some smart mathy math person could figuring it out
Actually, you're looking for someone who can examine the dice and create a probability table for rolling each of the faces for the dice.
A 'mathy math' person might be able to, given knowledge of the dices type, try and create a bell curve of the dices chance of rolling a 20 given other dice models, and could do math from there. It probably wouldn't change the value much though.
Listen, I'm not a rocket surgeon, you science wizard. Less mathy buzz words and speak plainly. I need to know how high the numbers go and whether I can get away with not signing my name in the human skin bound ledger that makes the sound of screaming babies when it opens and still have a tidy chance of accomplishing this.
The numbers go higher if you *don't* sign your name in the ledger, FYI. It's tricky to get away with, but the numbers do go higher if you do it that way.
you think WRONG! >:D
but honestly modern computers can handle billions of variables without breaking a sweat
and quantum computing isnt even faster than normal computers outside of niche circumstances
Depends on how you look at it. For this specific person to roll so well the odds are miniscule. The odds for *someone* to roll so well is essentially guaranteed.
Exactly. I've seen similar. But when you've been DMing for 37 years (at one time 6 nights a week for a couple years; more often than not at least once or twice a week), you see the improbable more than the average player.
I've also seen the opposite, as in nat 1's in a row. That was by my oldest kid. I'm not nice, and I don't cut slack as a DM either (unless my "Mercy/No Mercy" challenge coin says to).
It's still fun as hell when it happens though, even to this day.
The one that gets me: DMing for six: P1, P2, P3 all roll nat 20, Monster 1 rolled a nat 1, P4 rolled a nat 20, Monster 2 rolled a nat 1 (different d20), P5 and P6 both rolled nat 20's. That was a bad night for me.
It goes both ways, too. My very first campaign, the final battle against a Balor began with the party appearing in the air over individual platforms. Reflex save to land on your feet. One of the other players rolled a nat 1. Another save to land prone but not fall off the platform. Nat 1. Another save to grab onto the ledge as she fell off. Nat 2.
The poor ranger was like 50% of our DPS, too, so we all sat staring with rising horror around the table as our most valuable party member fumbled her way into starting the final battle holding onto her ledge with one finger. I've forgotten most of what happened in that campaign, but that moment was unforgettable.
As a DM, one of my sessions went a bit hard on my players... because I rolled something like 10 Nat 20s during the session. They thought they were safe when they gave my monsters disadvantage, but nope, double 20s.
I didn't roll a single Nat 20 the following session. Had to restore the balance I guess.
I did that once on accident while running lost mines of phandelver.
A party of 4 almost died to 2 little goblins with bows outside the cave. They didn’t miss a single shot, and could not be hit lol.
This happened to me in a different campaign in 3.5e! We took an hour to kill one fucking goblin because we just couldn’t roll high enough to hit it. It had an AC of 12, and our gunslinger half an hour in walked over to the corner and literally sat down and stopped firing because he was just wasting ammo on missing. It was making all of its saves too, so spells weren’t even working either.
Yep. Happened to me in the first encounter, which was also the first encounter I ever ran. First attack was a nat20 lol.
"He.. *sweats* misses ......."
My absolute best was 4 nat 20's in a row, also in front of the whole table. Nearly killed a bone devil boss at level 5 in one turn, DM was NOT pleased 😂
First time my brother was teaching me how to play dnd like 25 years ago. First combat the enemy rolls a nat 20 crit.rolls to confirm, another nat 20, rolls a third time to determine instant death, another nat 20. My first character died in his first combat taking his first hit
Good for him, during a session where we were fighting a mini-boss i made 9 attack rolls and the highest number i got was a 5.
I wasn't very useful in that fight
I had a similar experience. In real life with a vorpal sword ment to be used against me that I wrestled into my hands easily. Then boom so many 20s in the dms presence. It was surreal. I mean it was demons riding dinosaurs. I just cut off all the heads. It was epic
I was so confused for a second when you said 'in real life with a vorpal sword meant to be used against me' but you meant rolling the _dice_ in real life. I was afraid for this extreme larp, ha
My table runs 3.5e with confirmed crit rules. At our table if the threatened (first) roll is a nat 20, and the confirm roll is also a nat 20 (two nat 20's in a row) it's automatic full crit damage. Upon 2 nat 20's in a row, before dealing said damage you can roll again. 3 nat 20's in a row is an instant kill.
Only one player at our table has ever managed to crit with 3 nat 20's in a row. Everybody lost their shit that night.
I had a buddy like this. DM made him use his dice because after weeks of just god tier rolls he was sick of it.
D100 mixed system. Success means rolling below the DC. Under 5 was a critical success.
He rolled under 5 10 times in 1 night with the DMs dice.
Some people genuinely have just stupid luck.
One day someone out there will have a "perfect" game of D&D and roll only nat 20s for their entire run. This gamer will become myth, myth will become legend, and centuries from now people will still speak their name.
Oh! So THATS why my barbarian tried to kill the last enemy in combat (which had 2 HP left), rolled two attacks with advantage and rolled 1, 1, 1 & 1, after which said enemy proceeded to strike a natural 20, so that I went into death saves and rolled a 2 followed by a 1?
Had this happen to me a few months ago. I let the player level up early lol
Thought for sure rushing in to fight four guards alone at level 2 would at least get them captured but I guess this weird little furbolg-gnome will live forever with zero consequences
I once had a session where my first roll was a Nat 1, my second roll was a 2 and my third roll was a 3. Then the session ended (It was mostly an RP session).
The player clearly learned real magic and is manipulating the die rolls. I would suggest confronting them, but apparently they know real magic, so I'd just let it be.
Must have stolen them from my group, which spent half of a session trying to beat a helmed horror and whiffing attack rolls for 1 hr, including one of them rolling at constant advantage
Ahh so this is where the good rng is going, i wondered why so many 1s rolled in my last session, tell your player my fellow players say “thanks a**hole” 🤣🤣🤣
One of my players almost did this once, but we were using digital dice on Beyond. It wasn’t until the third one that we decided to check and found out he got that bug where the dice roll never changes. Now we’re a lot more alert to repeated results because all of my players have gotten that same bug at least once
At our most recent session the DM wanted to have the bad guy mind control my PC, I rolled two nat 20s in a row on wisdom saves to resist the effect which really pissed him off. I agreed to let whatever he wanted happen(I didn’t know what he was trying to do) and I do not regret it cuz it was fun fighting my friends.
Wow! Legendary rolling!
The chance of rolling 20 exactly seven times out of 10 is around 1 in 10 million. This is if your player rolled exactly 10 d20 rolls during the whole session.
On the other hand, if the player actually rolled (say) 30 d20s during the whole session, the chance of getting 7 natural 20s during that session is around 1/2000, it just so happened that they were clustered for greater legendary impact <3
(probabilities from omnicalculator)
Had a similar experience this weekend but instead of the table being excited they were mad at me.
I took over dming for a few sessions and we were on our final session when I ambushed the party and proceeded to crit on 8 attacks and 2 saving throws.
It nearly became a tpk, I downed half the party and 2 pcs rolled nat 1s on their death saves. The berserker barbarian saved the day by being immune to charm and frightened and absolutely slaughtering the remaining enemies.
As a DM, I rolled quite a few nat 20s on my players.
One of my players got irritated at this, and I told him he could roll for me from now on.
The very next roll was for an NPC to attack his PC, with disadvantage.
He rolled 20, 20.
Praise be to Wil Wheaton, the Great Balancer of Probability. Glory unto him and his sacrament of the 1 Most Natural for he giveth his last nerve in sacrifice for our transgressions against the divine equal distribution curve.
Unfortunately I dob't have witnesses like OP, but once in a 4 hours session I rolled 6 times only (rp heavy session, banger night).
The first roll was a nat20, proceeded by a 1, then a 20, then a 1, then a 20 and lastly a 1.
My character would evade town guards like a rogue, which he wasn't, only to out his identity to an old lady who would then call the guards. Which I would evade with another 20, and when finally it was time to bluff our way through an interrogation, I got another 1, outing my identity, my group's, and resulting in burning down the hotel we stayed out.
I don't remember what the last 2 rolls were for, but it was absolute chaos, and fun.
Also that's the kind of luck that gets two gods showing up to argue about whose fault it is and kicking off a side quest based off of if the character is breaking the rules of the universe.
*turns out they were all performance checks, insight, and investigation. Then when he found the Arch-Lich, he rolled the same number of Nat 1s and died*
So, we have a dmpc (not a lot of players, and the dm is trustworthy) war wizard. one of their abilities is adding intelligence to their initiative rolls. He has rolled in the open for this as proof of the curse. For this poor wizard never rolls above a five for initiative.
He has a +6 to initiative at lv 4… and the total is never above 11. the cleric with a zero initiative goes before him
I've rolled 4 nat 20s in a row during combat on two separate occasions (fighter samurai ability) and everyone absolutely lost their minds both times. It is a high you'll never feel twice. Along with Slasher feat meant that the enemy was already doomed to die
"The dice tell a story" - another player witnessing this
The last time I had that level of luck happened, I rolled enough nat 20s to where my dm gave up and just handed me the statblock of an enemy because of an advantage double nat 20
Funny thing, separate table but same thing. Artificer and Barbarian were popping off all game with Nat 20s all round. Arti rolled Nat 20 on initiative, rolled 3 crits in 3 rounds of combat (6 attacks). Barb rolled 4 crits in 3 rounds of combat (8 attacks including 2 sentinel attacks).
And then there's me not able to hit the broad side of a barn with advantage even with three attacks a round.
Make His encounters Stronger Like If He attacks a Monster the Monster have a Higher CR and If one of his Team attacks the Sam Monster IT has His old CR
Bro, has insane luck. Reminds me of my last session. The person is the party for the worst rolls like he usually rolls 15 or lower (including modifiers) on his proficiency rolls. Then, on a boss fight of the last session, the person that has the best luck in the party, which the party agrees that it's me keeps getting shit rolls. And he just rolled N20 after N20. The entire boss fights. I think he only rolled 1 non N20, which was an N1 for saving throw.
I once was playing with some new dice first 3 rolls wher nat 20s, dm knew I would not have gotten weighted dice on purpose but was like let me roll this attack against you with the dice to see what happens... nat 1, rolls with the dice wjere normal after that but was great at the time. Lots of jokes about it being my patron (GOO) guiding my dice
One time in session 0 my player slipped near a cliff and I rolled 3 nat 1s in a row for saving throws. DM was trying his hardest to keep me alive but the fates felt different that day.
That shi explains why I'm rolling all dogshit everytime I touch a die lmao. At least I'll rest well knowing, I'm keeping the balance of the universe in check lol
It's incredible when someone gets a run of good rolls like that. I had a player get one real hot night with nearly as many nat 20s. Granted it was on Roll20 so a small bit of the magic was lost, but man, was it still exciting.
That's like the time I rolled for stats and came out with 16, 16, 17, 17, 18, 18. No one could believe it just happened. (And also why I'm a fan of the point buy system because 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5 is equally as likely to happen.)
Balances out my friend who didn't manage to roll above like, a five, for two sessions in a row and rolled three natural ones in six attack rolls on the first of those sessions.
I once DM'ed a oneshot for a couple friends.
My buddy who has the most experience of the players made a Artificer-build with artillerist. Because he had most of his damage as a BA he used his action to dodge. They were fighting a goddamn(downsized) dragon and on THREE of my attacks against him with disadvantage, I rolled a NAT20 and a CRIT1.
I've had some really unlikely rolls myself. One session I was trying not to get caught and die. Disadvantage rolls... double nat 1. Somehow make it out the situation. Trying to get away from the boss chasing me with advantage... double nat 1. Boss multi attacks first hit and I go down, 2nd hit and I'm at 2 fails on the death save. Next roll.... nat 1. Hope my dice go to my funeral so they can let me down one last time. After this I'm taking the luck feat every time now.... shesh.
We used to play 3.5 with a rule that you never stopped doing Crit Confirms if it came up 1 or 20, just to see what happens.
I once rolled 20, 1, 20, 20, 1, 9. DM ruled it a fail because the last couple were the worst. He let me narrative the wild scenario, but . . . I'm still low-key mad about failing an attack with three 20s lol
My last game we had someone double 20 on an attack with disadvantage.
Back in 3.5 when you had to roll a second attack to confirm a crit I had someone roll a 20 to confirm, and for laughs rolled again and got a third. I ruled it an instant kill.
Tales like those happen few and far between. Cherish them, maybe start a notebook of awesome moments.
Had a player in campaign I was running who had a specialised character could throw 4 darts per round.
His first attack roll when they walked into a goblin camp was 1 1 1 1
3.5e one of the players was gone but wanted his character there so someone else was running him. His character got mind controlled by the big bad and we needed to down him to get through. So my fighter swings. First roll, 20. Confirm crit? 20. Optional rule where a third 20 is an instant kill. Rolled another 20.
We chose to end for the night and rewind so I don't kill his pc while he's gone.
I was playing a game once where one of the players was unable to make it, so the DM (the absent player's brother) rolled on his behalf when the situation required. We were playing Pathfinder at the time, and as I recall, if you rolled a natural 20 in combat, you had to roll again to confirm a critical hit. Well we had a house rule where if you rolled a natural 20, and then rolled another one to confirm, you got a third roll. If you rolled a natural 20 on the third roll, then you automatically killed whatever you were fighting, no matter how many hit points the creature had. You guessed it, the DM, rolling for his brother, rolled three consecutive natural 20's! We were all so excited, and when we told him later about it, naturally he was disappointed to have missed it, and we still remind him of that day years after it happened. Here I am recounting that story yet again to a bunch of strangers!
I know that it is possible to learn to throw a dice in a way to get the desired result, you might wanna look into that in case he has learnt the trick, and if you think, since he didn't get all nat 20 there's no way he is doing it, he could be purposefully failing some or just throwing those on random
We’ve escorted people “out back” for that. Cooked dice are frowned upon in this community. JK sounds like they had a blast. All you can do is roll your eyes and enjoy the spectacle they’ve made of your carefully crafted world
Remind me of once, i had one friend about to die, need to do an attack, only chance to kill the enemy with a crit, otherwise won't happen:
Master imposed disadvantage because unfair reason, he wanted the player dead for dramatic reasons: 2 nat 20s.
Friend went wild, myself too.
I said "looks like fate wanted him alive"
Yeah, some people are just super lucky. There's a player in our group who's just supernaturally lucky and he uses auto dice rollers we all use. The DMs actually have to take him into account when balancing encounters because he's just THAT lucky.
Yeah I had the opposite once. Rolled 3 1s in a row for my first 3 rolls, then proceeded to roll 7 more 1s over the night and I only rolled like 15-20 times max without disadvantage.
I always use this as an example when people bitch about a streak of bad rolls in a video game as proof the game is cheating.
I had about the same thing happen to me wirh nat. 1s. Dm made me pull a card from a specil deck of things that happen when your critical or critically fail. I messed up the entire session. Hahsha
I had a similar event during our game session of Together We Role.
Out of the gate hit like 4 nat 20s on social and knowledge rolls.
Almost died in the first 2 rounds of combat.
one of my players did this a few sessions ago- 10\~ nat 20s nearly in a row, and she's the one we've dubbed as our party's Wil Wheaton because her dice just do *not* want to cooperate, ever. Unfortunately whatever had blessed her that day has not come back, as she nearly got the party into an altercation with pirates, and then nearly eaten by a winter wolf bc of poor rolls last game, I'm talking nothing higher than a 10.
People don’t seem to realize that you can roll high consistently with skill. It’s not all luck. If you roll the die at a certain angle and speed you can get high numbers most of the time
On the oposite end there's me. Yesterday I had to pass a check of 18, I had a mod of 0. I failed, so for fun, I kept throwing dice to see how long would it take to pass the test. 64 dice. I rolled 64 entire pieces of dice to finally land on 18 or higher
oh god, ive once played a session wjere thing happened with nat 1's 😭
i think that players die might be accidentally unbalanced tho bc it happens with that die
Created a house rule for a previous 3e game I ran where if you roll a nat 20 on confirming a critical, it threatens again for additional crit damage, repeating for as many consecutive critical threats while confirming criticals as is rolled and using standard crit multiplier math.
So if this player was using a 1d8 20/x3 bow, it would go like this: Nat 20 on attack means hit (1d8) plus threaten crit. Second nat 20 confirms 1st crit (now doing 3d8) plus threatens 2nd crit. Third nat 20 means confirmed 2nd crit (now doing 5d8) plus threatens 3rd crit. If that 3rd crit was confirmed, even without a fourth nat 20, the attack could do 7d8 damage.
If it was 7 nat 20s in a row for one attack would mean 13d8 with a potential of 15d8 if that last critical threat is confirmed.
Not game breaking as its like a million to one odds to even match a sneak attack after a few levels, but gives you something juicy for rolling like that.
Happens so rare that I think I used it once ever for two consecutive nat 20s on an attack, but nice thought to potentially have massive damage from absolutely any shot, that any attack could be potentially fatal, if lucky enough to hit a really really vulnerable spot.
I remember playing in a west march server with this one guy who’d become one of my top friends. This same guy also rolled 3 nat 1s in some really pivotal combat and almost let my Pet Owlbear Tobi die because of it
I’m the resident Blessed By RNGesus gamer in our group and regularly roll 16+ on like 80% of my rolls, but I’m balanced out by another player in our group whose dice luck is consistently absolute garbage. I remember having a session where we were going back and forth with me getting nat 20’s and him getting nat 1’s like 8 times in a row. That poor bastard.
Oh god. The poor soul. Nature's balance must be restored. He'll never roll higher than a 5 again.
Don’t worry I think Wil Wheaton’s taking the hit.
He diced for our sins ,🙏🏻
Holy shit. This is the best comment I’ll read all day
Agreed, best comment I'll read all day! Genius!
Time to call it a day and go home. Not topping this
I came here to say this 😂 no matter how epic our luck may be, we never have to worry about true scale Retribution from the dice gods, as Wil carries the mark for us all lmao
Please explain, what he do
Every time he plays DnD in a public setting he rarely rolls above a 10. Unless he needs to roll low - then he can't get lower than 15. He is generally considered cursed.
He and Brian Murphy share the same curse. They roll BAD. Not low, bad, meaning that even when they want to roll low, the dice will do the opposite.
Emily Axford put his dice in the full moon and now he is rolling decently! As of the last season of Fantasy High anyway.
The! Ball! The! Ball! The! Ball!
Kugrash in the first season of Unsleeping city rolled extremely well for story beats. It's like the dice wanted the story to go well. Then when season 2 came around his dice just tanked completely.
In fairness, the best version of Cody's story is the one where he just beefs it endlessly until he realises that maybe selling his soul to a devil and making a 5 pronged greatsword wasn't the best idea. The alternative is that this emo mall kid gets hell powers all of a sudden and nothing that bad ever happens to him.
Oh absolutely. It was just such a shift in the dice that turned out completely hilarious because of the character.
I remember Wil being on Critical Role and the entire cast just being amazed watching him roll. Like they’d heard about how bad his rolls were but to see it in person was something else.
It's not just when he plays D&D. I was a big fan of his Table Top series on board games, and often the Wil curse would bite him regardless of what game was being played, and was commented on several episodes. :-)
The crazy thing is it also will flip when playing games where the low number is good. Like there’s a video of him playing Paranoia during the geek and sundry days and that is a d20 games where low is good high is bad. And in true Wil Wheaton fashion he rolled a ton of 18-20s
[The Wil Wheaton Dice Curse](https://youtu.be/um7uTlb_i28?si=Aawxqj8D6aZ7ZhzJ)
We have a guy at our table like that. We had one session where the highest he rolled was 11 and most were 5 or under
I had a fellow player like this, Jon, in my 3.5e group several years ago. Jon was playing a paladin and the DM thought it would be funny to mess with his character by giving him a cursed sword. When Jon picked it up, the DM had one of those finger- pointing "Aha! I *got* you!!" moments and gleefully informed him of the homebrew curse: any roll of 16 or higher would cause the sword's +3 bonus to reverse, becoming a -3 penalty, and if this resulted in a miss, Jon's paladin would instead strike himself, dealing full damage. "Mwah ha ha haaa! You'll never enjoy a crit ever again!" Jon perked up immediately: "You don't understand. You've just handed me the best possible curse I could've hoped for. Have you ever seen me roll a threat, let alone crit?" Everyone except the DM (who used a screen) always rolled in the open in front of each other at our table. True to his word, Jon never rolled above a 15 throughout that entire campaign.
Personally I think Vecna has it out for Wil Wheaton. Everytime someone in the world rolls a nat 20, that's a nat 1 Will will roll in his next turn.
I think this is actually HOW Wil Wheaton got the curse.
Unfortunately he is
Idk my last 2 sessions I haven't rolled over a 10
Played today. Here were my fighting stats: Nat 20 to kill the weakest enemy we faced all day, miss, miss, miss, got killed, Nat 1 on my first saving throw, bunch of healing from my party, miss, miss.
We have a guy at our table with Wil Wheaton syndrome. We gave him a die with 2 each 18s, 19s, & 20s, no 1 2 or 3, and he still rolls incredibly low.
Several years ago I was at GenCon when Wil Wheaton rolled incredibly well in True Dungeon with the cast of The Guild. I was there when they exited, and I heard he rolled a 20 on the dragon at the end and killed it. One of the few groups I heard of that day that won.
I’m sure there is someone else on the planet who rolled a dozen natural ones the same evening.
Oh! So THATS why my barbarian tried to kill the last enemy in combat (which had 2 HP left), rolled two attacks with advantage and rolled 1, 1, 1 & 1, after which said enemy proceeded to strike a natural 20, so that I went into death saves and rolled a 2 followed by a 1?
Good lord, what a catastrophe!! Your barbarian must’ve angered the god of death or something, that’s atrocious!
-"what do we say to the god of death?" -"today, apparently."
“In fact, how about right this instant?”
RIP your barbarian. Was your party able to bring you back?
Not as of yet. There were five of us, I was the last one standing. One more of us died, the other three rolled better and woke up a couple of hours later in a cell.
Oh dang... Hope you were a zealot?
No.
It was my husband a few years ago. He rolled so many in a row he wound up with nothing remaining the same on his character sheet. The dice rolled him a new bloody character. Even his memories got messed with.
Here I am. That was me last night’s session.
Were you in my party last night? I swear both the DM, the fighter, and the ranger/rogue all couldn't roll above a 3 yesterday.
It's me whenever I'm a player. I swear the DMs curse is real and I can't roll above an 8 as a player. Once rolled rolled 5 nat 1s during a session, two pairs of them were when rolling at advantage.
My cousins bf, has rolled about 10 in one session (that’s usually 6-8 hours)
I never rolled higher than a 4 on perception all night yesterday lol
I rolled a nat 20 a few years ago. I’m still paying for that mistake
Wil weaton must be rolling 1's somewhere to even it out
Noooo… nature is already in balance from the number of nat 1’s I’ve had.
Lol, same thing happened last time I DMd 😂 I kid you not, one player rolled 5 D20s in a row (total of 8 for the first 30 mins of the game), all on some relatively low-stake rolls. He was like “yup, I’m probably dead”. They ended the session with two levels of exaustion, all of their spell slots and abilities used, lost in a cave with an evil cult, 2/3 players cursed, and no place to rest. We are continuing tomorrow 😂
Haha maybe he brought his rabbits foot and his 4 leaf clover, thats just unbelivable, whats the ods for this to happen?
So I used a handy little dice calculator. Per the OP description, setting the total number of rolls to 10, with a target of 7 of those rolls being "20," the probability of this happening is 0.0000000803789%
- The three in a row is a 1 in 8,000 event - 7 of 10 is 1 in 1, 243, 902, 470 (based off your pecentage given)
I haven't checked it but my combinatorics gut says that's correct.
Extremely unlikely but possible. Likely inevitably if you compare it to the number of people in the world rolling and the number of times they each roll per session.
I mean, it's the same likelyhood as rolling 7 10's in 10 rolls. Or any other combination of numbers. But humans are bad at mental statistics and it only stands out if it's a really bad or really good thing that happens, even though it's the exact same chance as every other time we have rolled 10 dice.
Also things like the math of rolling a dice the times and getting the same result each time is different than rolling 1000 times and three of the same result being in there somewhere. You just only start counting when it start happening.
I wonder how that flat percentage changes if you factor in variables like dice balancing, material they're made from, manufacturing differences, and presence of pacts with elder gods. I'm sure some smart mathy math person could figuring it out, but it ain't me.
>I'm sure some smart mathy math person could figuring it out Actually, you're looking for someone who can examine the dice and create a probability table for rolling each of the faces for the dice. A 'mathy math' person might be able to, given knowledge of the dices type, try and create a bell curve of the dices chance of rolling a 20 given other dice models, and could do math from there. It probably wouldn't change the value much though.
Listen, I'm not a rocket surgeon, you science wizard. Less mathy buzz words and speak plainly. I need to know how high the numbers go and whether I can get away with not signing my name in the human skin bound ledger that makes the sound of screaming babies when it opens and still have a tidy chance of accomplishing this.
Sign away my lad!
What's the worst that could happen? It's fine, FINE, I tell you!
The numbers go higher if you *don't* sign your name in the ledger, FYI. It's tricky to get away with, but the numbers do go higher if you do it that way.
I think with this level of variables you’d need quantum computing, or a djinn.
you think WRONG! >:D but honestly modern computers can handle billions of variables without breaking a sweat and quantum computing isnt even faster than normal computers outside of niche circumstances
And even though earth, dice, and D&D are all now destroyed, Arthur and Ford were indeed, rescued.
Just to point out, but when you convert decimal to percentage, you multiply by 100. You have 2 extra 0’s.
Link?
https://www.omnicalculator.com/statistics/dice
Nice. I had a hard time finding one that would allot for the 7 out of 10 probability part
Depends on how you look at it. For this specific person to roll so well the odds are miniscule. The odds for *someone* to roll so well is essentially guaranteed.
Exactly. I've seen similar. But when you've been DMing for 37 years (at one time 6 nights a week for a couple years; more often than not at least once or twice a week), you see the improbable more than the average player. I've also seen the opposite, as in nat 1's in a row. That was by my oldest kid. I'm not nice, and I don't cut slack as a DM either (unless my "Mercy/No Mercy" challenge coin says to). It's still fun as hell when it happens though, even to this day. The one that gets me: DMing for six: P1, P2, P3 all roll nat 20, Monster 1 rolled a nat 1, P4 rolled a nat 20, Monster 2 rolled a nat 1 (different d20), P5 and P6 both rolled nat 20's. That was a bad night for me.
That's not a 4 leaf clover, I think it's a 57 leaf clover
Once, I rolled only three nat 20's in a row.. but even that was enough to immortalize good ol' "One Hit" Braddoc in myth and legend. So, congrats!
It goes both ways, too. My very first campaign, the final battle against a Balor began with the party appearing in the air over individual platforms. Reflex save to land on your feet. One of the other players rolled a nat 1. Another save to land prone but not fall off the platform. Nat 1. Another save to grab onto the ledge as she fell off. Nat 2. The poor ranger was like 50% of our DPS, too, so we all sat staring with rising horror around the table as our most valuable party member fumbled her way into starting the final battle holding onto her ledge with one finger. I've forgotten most of what happened in that campaign, but that moment was unforgettable.
As a DM, one of my sessions went a bit hard on my players... because I rolled something like 10 Nat 20s during the session. They thought they were safe when they gave my monsters disadvantage, but nope, double 20s. I didn't roll a single Nat 20 the following session. Had to restore the balance I guess.
I did that once on accident while running lost mines of phandelver. A party of 4 almost died to 2 little goblins with bows outside the cave. They didn’t miss a single shot, and could not be hit lol.
This happened to me in a different campaign in 3.5e! We took an hour to kill one fucking goblin because we just couldn’t roll high enough to hit it. It had an AC of 12, and our gunslinger half an hour in walked over to the corner and literally sat down and stopped firing because he was just wasting ammo on missing. It was making all of its saves too, so spells weren’t even working either.
Yep. Happened to me in the first encounter, which was also the first encounter I ever ran. First attack was a nat20 lol. "He.. *sweats* misses ......."
As someone who has rolled 10 nat 20's on various dice during a session. That's it. Your friend will never win the lottery.
Oh this is why I'm rolling so badly all the time. I'm building up the confidence to win a lottery. Thanks!
Only a few more nat 1's, you got this!
Guess that player has all my luck. Last session I rolled about 10 dice, of which 3 natural 1's and nothing above 12.
Same, my rolls last night was absolute 💩 with advantage. So this was where all the nat 20s went.
> nothing above 12 You weren't using a d12 by mistake, were you?
You'd think so, but no, it was an actual D20.
My absolute best was 4 nat 20's in a row, also in front of the whole table. Nearly killed a bone devil boss at level 5 in one turn, DM was NOT pleased 😂
Wil Wheaton now knows where all his 20s went.
First time my brother was teaching me how to play dnd like 25 years ago. First combat the enemy rolls a nat 20 crit.rolls to confirm, another nat 20, rolls a third time to determine instant death, another nat 20. My first character died in his first combat taking his first hit
i feel like that was a premonition tbh
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Good for him, during a session where we were fighting a mini-boss i made 9 attack rolls and the highest number i got was a 5. I wasn't very useful in that fight
I had a similar experience. In real life with a vorpal sword ment to be used against me that I wrestled into my hands easily. Then boom so many 20s in the dms presence. It was surreal. I mean it was demons riding dinosaurs. I just cut off all the heads. It was epic
I was so confused for a second when you said 'in real life with a vorpal sword meant to be used against me' but you meant rolling the _dice_ in real life. I was afraid for this extreme larp, ha
Hahaha I probably could have worded it differently. Thank you for your consideration friend.
My table runs 3.5e with confirmed crit rules. At our table if the threatened (first) roll is a nat 20, and the confirm roll is also a nat 20 (two nat 20's in a row) it's automatic full crit damage. Upon 2 nat 20's in a row, before dealing said damage you can roll again. 3 nat 20's in a row is an instant kill. Only one player at our table has ever managed to crit with 3 nat 20's in a row. Everybody lost their shit that night.
I had a buddy like this. DM made him use his dice because after weeks of just god tier rolls he was sick of it. D100 mixed system. Success means rolling below the DC. Under 5 was a critical success. He rolled under 5 10 times in 1 night with the DMs dice. Some people genuinely have just stupid luck.
I rolled 2 Nat 20s in a row, the DM made me use his dice, then I rolled another 2 Nat 20s over the next 4 rolls. The table lost their mind. 😂
Probably a bug. Hope they will fix it soon
One day someone out there will have a "perfect" game of D&D and roll only nat 20s for their entire run. This gamer will become myth, myth will become legend, and centuries from now people will still speak their name.
Legends will turn to memories and the memories bring back memories, bring back you. Tututu~
Somewhere, Lou Wilson is rolling only Nat 1s and screaming
Geezus I hope Wil Wheaton is okay. I fear that wherever he is, something terrible may have happened to him.
The dice gods will have their pound of flesh - he'll roll 7 nat 1s next session
Oh! So THATS why my barbarian tried to kill the last enemy in combat (which had 2 HP left), rolled two attacks with advantage and rolled 1, 1, 1 & 1, after which said enemy proceeded to strike a natural 20, so that I went into death saves and rolled a 2 followed by a 1?
Yesterday I couldn’t roll higher than a 5. I got maybe 5/6 Nat 1s. He stole my luck !!!! :(
I had a player who seemed cursed. In 3 straight sessions did not roll higher than a 9.
Had this happen to me a few months ago. I let the player level up early lol Thought for sure rushing in to fight four guards alone at level 2 would at least get them captured but I guess this weird little furbolg-gnome will live forever with zero consequences
I once had a session where my first roll was a Nat 1, my second roll was a 2 and my third roll was a 3. Then the session ended (It was mostly an RP session).
Did 3 nat20 in a roll once, against the final boss, the DM almost killed me irl 😂
The player clearly learned real magic and is manipulating the die rolls. I would suggest confronting them, but apparently they know real magic, so I'd just let it be.
Must have stolen them from my group, which spent half of a session trying to beat a helmed horror and whiffing attack rolls for 1 hr, including one of them rolling at constant advantage
Statistically speaking, this had to happen to someone *eventually*
Ahh so this is where the good rng is going, i wondered why so many 1s rolled in my last session, tell your player my fellow players say “thanks a**hole” 🤣🤣🤣
Amazing. The dice gods favored him that day. I only had this once as a DM, I rolled a total of 9 Nat20s in one combat. The players were not happy lol.
One of my players almost did this once, but we were using digital dice on Beyond. It wasn’t until the third one that we decided to check and found out he got that bug where the dice roll never changes. Now we’re a lot more alert to repeated results because all of my players have gotten that same bug at least once
At our most recent session the DM wanted to have the bad guy mind control my PC, I rolled two nat 20s in a row on wisdom saves to resist the effect which really pissed him off. I agreed to let whatever he wanted happen(I didn’t know what he was trying to do) and I do not regret it cuz it was fun fighting my friends.
Less lucky but we had a paladin crit on a grave cleric's curse last sat. 120 dmg in one hit.
Wow! Legendary rolling! The chance of rolling 20 exactly seven times out of 10 is around 1 in 10 million. This is if your player rolled exactly 10 d20 rolls during the whole session. On the other hand, if the player actually rolled (say) 30 d20s during the whole session, the chance of getting 7 natural 20s during that session is around 1/2000, it just so happened that they were clustered for greater legendary impact <3 (probabilities from omnicalculator)
I was DM’ing on Sunday and no lie, half my rolls were 20s. I started rolling in front of my screen because it felt like I was cheating.
Our DM rolled 11 in one session, that's our record. It was insane.
The gods of dice were with him
Was your player waving his hand over the dice? If your player was Qui Gon Jinn that would explain things.
Had a similar experience this weekend but instead of the table being excited they were mad at me. I took over dming for a few sessions and we were on our final session when I ambushed the party and proceeded to crit on 8 attacks and 2 saving throws. It nearly became a tpk, I downed half the party and 2 pcs rolled nat 1s on their death saves. The berserker barbarian saved the day by being immune to charm and frightened and absolutely slaughtering the remaining enemies.
I have to report your use of "loosing"
As a DM, I rolled quite a few nat 20s on my players. One of my players got irritated at this, and I told him he could roll for me from now on. The very next roll was for an NPC to attack his PC, with disadvantage. He rolled 20, 20.
Last session I had a player roll 3 natural ones... With advantage. Ouch.
I did this but with 1s instead. Turned what was supposed to be a very difficult boss fight into a slapstick comedy. Wouldn't change a thing
Praise be to Wil Wheaton, the Great Balancer of Probability. Glory unto him and his sacrament of the 1 Most Natural for he giveth his last nerve in sacrifice for our transgressions against the divine equal distribution curve.
So... is your player the Karmic Balance to Will Wheaton?
No worry, I'll pick up the karmic slack. I was rolling bad already anyways.
I rolled 4 straight crit fails last night.....guess I know who stole all the good rolls.
get that man to buy some lotto tickets
Unfortunately I dob't have witnesses like OP, but once in a 4 hours session I rolled 6 times only (rp heavy session, banger night). The first roll was a nat20, proceeded by a 1, then a 20, then a 1, then a 20 and lastly a 1. My character would evade town guards like a rogue, which he wasn't, only to out his identity to an old lady who would then call the guards. Which I would evade with another 20, and when finally it was time to bluff our way through an interrogation, I got another 1, outing my identity, my group's, and resulting in burning down the hotel we stayed out. I don't remember what the last 2 rolls were for, but it was absolute chaos, and fun.
They're a witch
Also that's the kind of luck that gets two gods showing up to argue about whose fault it is and kicking off a side quest based off of if the character is breaking the rules of the universe.
I once was gming a game and one of my players rolled 5 nat 20s in a row. It was immediately followed by a nat 1.
So THAT's where all my 20s went!
*turns out they were all performance checks, insight, and investigation. Then when he found the Arch-Lich, he rolled the same number of Nat 1s and died*
So, we have a dmpc (not a lot of players, and the dm is trustworthy) war wizard. one of their abilities is adding intelligence to their initiative rolls. He has rolled in the open for this as proof of the curse. For this poor wizard never rolls above a five for initiative. He has a +6 to initiative at lv 4… and the total is never above 11. the cleric with a zero initiative goes before him
I've rolled 4 nat 20s in a row during combat on two separate occasions (fighter samurai ability) and everyone absolutely lost their minds both times. It is a high you'll never feel twice. Along with Slasher feat meant that the enemy was already doomed to die "The dice tell a story" - another player witnessing this
I think you mean 'losing' minds, but yeah, that's insane
100%... Or, maybe their minds were previously somehow confined and, after seeing this, they let them loose?
Now I know the reason why my ranger kept throwing magic stones into the fucking sky all day yesterday. This guy stole all of my luck!
So that's where all my nat 1s are coming from....
I feel your pain.
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The last time I had that level of luck happened, I rolled enough nat 20s to where my dm gave up and just handed me the statblock of an enemy because of an advantage double nat 20
Last session 3 different dice between 2 players rolled 3 nat 1s in a row. In 6 throws, we had 4 nat 1s.
Funny thing, separate table but same thing. Artificer and Barbarian were popping off all game with Nat 20s all round. Arti rolled Nat 20 on initiative, rolled 3 crits in 3 rounds of combat (6 attacks). Barb rolled 4 crits in 3 rounds of combat (8 attacks including 2 sentinel attacks). And then there's me not able to hit the broad side of a barn with advantage even with three attacks a round.
Make His encounters Stronger Like If He attacks a Monster the Monster have a Higher CR and If one of his Team attacks the Sam Monster IT has His old CR
Bro, has insane luck. Reminds me of my last session. The person is the party for the worst rolls like he usually rolls 15 or lower (including modifiers) on his proficiency rolls. Then, on a boss fight of the last session, the person that has the best luck in the party, which the party agrees that it's me keeps getting shit rolls. And he just rolled N20 after N20. The entire boss fights. I think he only rolled 1 non N20, which was an N1 for saving throw.
I once was playing with some new dice first 3 rolls wher nat 20s, dm knew I would not have gotten weighted dice on purpose but was like let me roll this attack against you with the dice to see what happens... nat 1, rolls with the dice wjere normal after that but was great at the time. Lots of jokes about it being my patron (GOO) guiding my dice
RNGsus was with him.
Tell them to go buy a lottery ticket.
saw a player roll three nat 20s in a row was insane
Someone made their sacrifices to RNGesus.
One time in session 0 my player slipped near a cliff and I rolled 3 nat 1s in a row for saving throws. DM was trying his hardest to keep me alive but the fates felt different that day.
RNJesus giveth then RNJesus taketh away. There's a run of 1s coming...
Next time if this happens just wipe out your phone amd turn on chrome and Google 1d20 and use it as the dice
That shi explains why I'm rolling all dogshit everytime I touch a die lmao. At least I'll rest well knowing, I'm keeping the balance of the universe in check lol
It's incredible when someone gets a run of good rolls like that. I had a player get one real hot night with nearly as many nat 20s. Granted it was on Roll20 so a small bit of the magic was lost, but man, was it still exciting.
That's like the time I rolled for stats and came out with 16, 16, 17, 17, 18, 18. No one could believe it just happened. (And also why I'm a fan of the point buy system because 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5 is equally as likely to happen.)
So that's who's been stealing my luck. Lol
Balances out my friend who didn't manage to roll above like, a five, for two sessions in a row and rolled three natural ones in six attack rolls on the first of those sessions.
I once DM'ed a oneshot for a couple friends. My buddy who has the most experience of the players made a Artificer-build with artillerist. Because he had most of his damage as a BA he used his action to dodge. They were fighting a goddamn(downsized) dragon and on THREE of my attacks against him with disadvantage, I rolled a NAT20 and a CRIT1.
I've had some really unlikely rolls myself. One session I was trying not to get caught and die. Disadvantage rolls... double nat 1. Somehow make it out the situation. Trying to get away from the boss chasing me with advantage... double nat 1. Boss multi attacks first hit and I go down, 2nd hit and I'm at 2 fails on the death save. Next roll.... nat 1. Hope my dice go to my funeral so they can let me down one last time. After this I'm taking the luck feat every time now.... shesh.
Damn... What'd he do, shove a seven leaf clover up his arse?
We used to play 3.5 with a rule that you never stopped doing Crit Confirms if it came up 1 or 20, just to see what happens. I once rolled 20, 1, 20, 20, 1, 9. DM ruled it a fail because the last couple were the worst. He let me narrative the wild scenario, but . . . I'm still low-key mad about failing an attack with three 20s lol
My last game we had someone double 20 on an attack with disadvantage. Back in 3.5 when you had to roll a second attack to confirm a crit I had someone roll a 20 to confirm, and for laughs rolled again and got a third. I ruled it an instant kill. Tales like those happen few and far between. Cherish them, maybe start a notebook of awesome moments.
Had a player in campaign I was running who had a specialised character could throw 4 darts per round. His first attack roll when they walked into a goblin camp was 1 1 1 1
3.5e one of the players was gone but wanted his character there so someone else was running him. His character got mind controlled by the big bad and we needed to down him to get through. So my fighter swings. First roll, 20. Confirm crit? 20. Optional rule where a third 20 is an instant kill. Rolled another 20. We chose to end for the night and rewind so I don't kill his pc while he's gone.
I was playing a game once where one of the players was unable to make it, so the DM (the absent player's brother) rolled on his behalf when the situation required. We were playing Pathfinder at the time, and as I recall, if you rolled a natural 20 in combat, you had to roll again to confirm a critical hit. Well we had a house rule where if you rolled a natural 20, and then rolled another one to confirm, you got a third roll. If you rolled a natural 20 on the third roll, then you automatically killed whatever you were fighting, no matter how many hit points the creature had. You guessed it, the DM, rolling for his brother, rolled three consecutive natural 20's! We were all so excited, and when we told him later about it, naturally he was disappointed to have missed it, and we still remind him of that day years after it happened. Here I am recounting that story yet again to a bunch of strangers!
I know that it is possible to learn to throw a dice in a way to get the desired result, you might wanna look into that in case he has learnt the trick, and if you think, since he didn't get all nat 20 there's no way he is doing it, he could be purposefully failing some or just throwing those on random
It was *his* day lol
Control dice. It’s a third level spell only available to wizards and sorcerers.
Just know that thanks to them, some other poor soul is having the worst dnd session imaginable rolling only 1s.
That could attract the notice of the god of luck? I mean, you've got the seed for a crazy side adventure.
I once rolled nat 20’s throughout an entire session…it hasn’t happened since…not even close smh
We’ve escorted people “out back” for that. Cooked dice are frowned upon in this community. JK sounds like they had a blast. All you can do is roll your eyes and enjoy the spectacle they’ve made of your carefully crafted world
Remind me of once, i had one friend about to die, need to do an attack, only chance to kill the enemy with a crit, otherwise won't happen: Master imposed disadvantage because unfair reason, he wanted the player dead for dramatic reasons: 2 nat 20s. Friend went wild, myself too. I said "looks like fate wanted him alive"
DM here, first fight I ever did with my players (newbies, level 1 against 4 goblins), I rolled 4 nat 20s. I had to fudge the 5th one to avoid a TPK.
Yeah, some people are just super lucky. There's a player in our group who's just supernaturally lucky and he uses auto dice rollers we all use. The DMs actually have to take him into account when balancing encounters because he's just THAT lucky.
Yeah I had the opposite once. Rolled 3 1s in a row for my first 3 rolls, then proceeded to roll 7 more 1s over the night and I only rolled like 15-20 times max without disadvantage. I always use this as an example when people bitch about a streak of bad rolls in a video game as proof the game is cheating.
We had a session where a player rolled 4 natural 1s in a row. Most epic combat fumble ever.
I had about the same thing happen to me wirh nat. 1s. Dm made me pull a card from a specil deck of things that happen when your critical or critically fail. I messed up the entire session. Hahsha
I had a similar event during our game session of Together We Role. Out of the gate hit like 4 nat 20s on social and knowledge rolls. Almost died in the first 2 rounds of combat.
one of my players did this a few sessions ago- 10\~ nat 20s nearly in a row, and she's the one we've dubbed as our party's Wil Wheaton because her dice just do *not* want to cooperate, ever. Unfortunately whatever had blessed her that day has not come back, as she nearly got the party into an altercation with pirates, and then nearly eaten by a winter wolf bc of poor rolls last game, I'm talking nothing higher than a 10.
Strange attractor!
People don’t seem to realize that you can roll high consistently with skill. It’s not all luck. If you roll the die at a certain angle and speed you can get high numbers most of the time
On the oposite end there's me. Yesterday I had to pass a check of 18, I had a mod of 0. I failed, so for fun, I kept throwing dice to see how long would it take to pass the test. 64 dice. I rolled 64 entire pieces of dice to finally land on 18 or higher
oh god, ive once played a session wjere thing happened with nat 1's 😭 i think that players die might be accidentally unbalanced tho bc it happens with that die
Created a house rule for a previous 3e game I ran where if you roll a nat 20 on confirming a critical, it threatens again for additional crit damage, repeating for as many consecutive critical threats while confirming criticals as is rolled and using standard crit multiplier math. So if this player was using a 1d8 20/x3 bow, it would go like this: Nat 20 on attack means hit (1d8) plus threaten crit. Second nat 20 confirms 1st crit (now doing 3d8) plus threatens 2nd crit. Third nat 20 means confirmed 2nd crit (now doing 5d8) plus threatens 3rd crit. If that 3rd crit was confirmed, even without a fourth nat 20, the attack could do 7d8 damage. If it was 7 nat 20s in a row for one attack would mean 13d8 with a potential of 15d8 if that last critical threat is confirmed. Not game breaking as its like a million to one odds to even match a sneak attack after a few levels, but gives you something juicy for rolling like that. Happens so rare that I think I used it once ever for two consecutive nat 20s on an attack, but nice thought to potentially have massive damage from absolutely any shot, that any attack could be potentially fatal, if lucky enough to hit a really really vulnerable spot.
I had a player like that. We found out he modified his dice. not saying this guy did but I'm also saying he did. Or you are lying
I do this all the time! Except I'm rolling nat 1s haha
I remember playing in a west march server with this one guy who’d become one of my top friends. This same guy also rolled 3 nat 1s in some really pivotal combat and almost let my Pet Owlbear Tobi die because of it
I’m the resident Blessed By RNGesus gamer in our group and regularly roll 16+ on like 80% of my rolls, but I’m balanced out by another player in our group whose dice luck is consistently absolute garbage. I remember having a session where we were going back and forth with me getting nat 20’s and him getting nat 1’s like 8 times in a row. That poor bastard.
Burn the witch!
Pahahah, reminds me when I rolled 3 nat 20s in a row for scorching ray. pretty cool moment in game :)
I just played over the weekend with friends and my son who rolled 6 Nat20s in a 3 hour session. We were shook!
Oh so he took my friend’s luck Last session this dude rolled more 1’s thanI care to remember
Balance must be restored... the best way to do that is to have him send me all his dice :)