Betrayed by RNGesus

Short

be me

playing DnD in highschool, can't remember which edition, possibly homebrewed a tad

due to my being absent the previous session, my character was drunk as can be, and I had disadvantage on every roll I made

How we did disadvantage (I don't know how anyone else does it) is you'd roll 2 dice, then take the lower of the 2 rolls

get into an encounter, not that dangerous

party is doing well, me, not so much (12 gold's worth of alcohol is not fun)

eventually, It's my turn again (there were like 15 people at the table)

I have to roll d20 to hit, and if I did, we'd calculate damage off a roll of an attack die. I used a d8, If I remember correctly.

anyway, I roll to hit, expecting another 4

it's a nat 20

table goes a bit wild, but I have to roll again, because disadvantage

dear god please don't be a 1

please

roll another nat 20

table explodes

DM is barely heard saying "roll for damage" over the commotion

I roll for damage

RNGesus catches up with me

roll 1

do no damage whatsoever

And so is the tale of how I wasted 2 natural 20s.

This is my first greentext, constructive criticism is appreciated!

Posted Jun 26, 2017, 4:16 PM UTC

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Notcoolman374•

dude when you roll a crit like that i'm pretty sure you roll 2 times on your damage dice. it may not have been a thing in the older versions,but it for the most part stops crap like this from happening

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futureFailiureOPRNGesus frowns upon me•

Dang. I wish I would have known that

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sonicfreak4356•

one of my dms has us just double our damage and another one would have us roll damage and add it to our max number on the die so there are many ways to do it i guess; just dms preference

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richstall•

I think it's ruled out to role twice but plenty of tables only role once doubled

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onhiatusagain•

Pretty funny. As for criticism, you don't have to explain how DnD works to us. As you described it, disadvantage and dealing damage seems to be the same as normal 5th edition DnD.

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Particlepants•

What he said, we all know our game mechanics fairly well around here, also if you roll a 1 on a damage die, it's just 1 damage, you can only critically fail on a d20 to hit

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futureFailiureOPRNGesus frowns upon me•

¯_(ツ)_/¯

thanks m9

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onhiatusagain•

Add another \ beforehand to make it stay.

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futureFailiureOPRNGesus frowns upon me•

Thanks man, Today I actually learned something valuable

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onhiatusagain•

No prob, Bob.

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