random my ash!!

[aggravated]

is this just terrible luck or is the random not so.. random

[valorik]

rolling hundreds upon hundreds of dice, you're bound to roll poorly like this a few times, I've seen people vorpal 4 orthons in 1 shot before *shrug*

[aggravated]

just bad luck then :/ switching dice

[IronAngel]

just bad luck then :/ switching dice

when ever I have that kind of luck, I switch the dice color and don't use that set again. EVER!!!!

[Roman]

Odds of rolling four consecutive 1's is ...

1/20*1/20*1/20*1/20 = 1/160,000 = 0.00000525%

I would say very unlucky.

[Gorby]

That looks alot like my UMD rolls whenever I'm below 25% health.

[TheJusticar]

That looks alot like my UMD rolls whenever I'm below 25% health.

OMG ... this is **** true. Cleric and monk down, only me (the sorc), the barb and the rogue alive. Rogue Assasinating trash, me spamming fogs and irresistible dance. The red-named gets to me and hits me for about 150 and have several scourges on my ash. Whip out my heal scrolls (UMD 38), target self, cast-roll-1 fail ... fudge me ... click roll another 1 fail ... arrgh ... !!! Switched to my cure serious wand ... and healed me enough to whip the scrolls again w/o diying. They should make 1 + 1d20 rolls instead In any other situation I would've cast on the first try as soon as they going gets tough stupid dice starts giving me bad rolls.

Godspeed.

[MissErres]

OMG ... this is **** true. Cleric and monk down, only me (the sorc), the barb and the rogue alive. Rogue Assasinating trash, me spamming fogs and irresistible dance. The red-named gets to me and hits me for about 150 and have several scourges on my ash. Whip out my heal scrolls (UMD 38), target self, cast-roll-1 fail ... fudge me ... click roll another 1 fail ... arrgh ... !!! Switched to my cure serious wand ... and healed me enough to whip the scrolls again w/o diying. They should make 1 + 1d20 rolls instead In any other situation I would've cast on the first try as soon as they going gets tough stupid dice starts giving me bad rolls.

Godspeed.

Yep Yep!! Been there, done that more times than I care to count. I do NOT believe the dice roll is random. You can throw in any argument you want with "proof" of a computer generated random dice roll... I DON'T CARE! Experience tells me that NO ONE rolls a 5 or under 80% of the time and it's "Random"...

[Schmoe]

Yep Yep!! Been there, done that more times than I care to count. I do NOT believe the dice roll is random. You can throw in any argument you want with "proof" of a computer generated random dice roll... I DON'T CARE! Experience tells me that NO ONE rolls a 5 or under 80% of the time and it's "Random"...

With a large enough sample size of users, SOMEONE will roll 5 or under 80% of the time. You are that user.

Smile, you're special.

[rimble]

I have a few screenshots of things like that. Not always 1's either, 3's, 20's, whatever...

I've seen it at the table too, and in PnP were you roll many many less dice, it can be really frustrating. I've seen it ruin a few peoples nights, it's just no fun when not a SINGLE thing you attempt to do works that night.

[ApesAmongUs]

Any truly random set of numbers will have strings of like values. One of the easiest ways to spot fake random numbers (tell someone to write 50 random heads and tails on a page and another person to actually flip a coin) is to look for a lack of strings of like values. What the human brain considers random and true randomness are very different things.

Also, there are good and bad random number generators in computers. A good generator will make something that looks random. A bad generator will produce overly long strings of very high and low values that clump together or they will alternate from very high to very low. Bad generators are much less processor intensive than good ones.