#dice rolls

[cottagedeer]

For those curious about what the GolBaby would look like, I have been dropping some lovely hints here and there, but to confirm one thing.

Each au is a genetic roulette.

And yes, I will use my dnd dice to determine how human or eldritch creature of worldly destruction the GolBaby will be.

Natural 1 | 100% Human

Natural 20 | That world is sooo dunzo as the golbaby could possibly destroy it if it felt like it.

Let's start with other AUs before we get to vanilla old man Simon.

| First, Simone from Fionna's universe. |

| Next, Winter king from the... loose swap universe? |

| Next, Ice King from a universe where Simon wasn't cured from the crown. (Or the identity crisis au, your pick) |

| Next, Ice Prince AND Freezer Simon because WHY TF NOT! (Ice Dice is IP and dark galaxy dice is FS) |

| Next is apocalypses Simon because silver fox needs a baby too. |

| Next is Ice President because whydoyouguyswanthimpreggers!? |

| And last, Vanilla Simon. |

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This is not rigged! I have witnesses!

[vivianvixen]

Another quirk I've noticed in actual play podcasts, specifically the ones that play 5th edition D&D, is that nobody owns more than one d20 and thus has to make two separate rolls for advantage and disadvantage, which is awkward and I hate it.

[tobiasforms]

[diceyclipse]

Some dice rolls for you !

[mattymurdox]

My rolls last session were wild. Lowest was an 11, three 15s two 19s an 18 and a 17.

[cutedice]

Do you write NSFW?

No, not really.

I guess technically yes depending on what's considered nsfw? It sort of depends on the raunchy level for me though.

I won't write anything super duper explicit, but I'll write buildups and such before a fade to black.

Maybe at some point in the future I'll dabble into full blown smut but rn that's the best I can offer on a comfortability level.

[hellbentrapture]

Yeah sooo I started a playthrough of Enderal and was making some decent progress but then you knooow Baldur's Gate 3 came out so that's what I've been up to....hence the lack of updates on that playthrough lmao. And I suspect I will be busy with BG3 for a long time.

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Notable moments so far in BG3, no real spoilers:

That dice roll is gonna haunt me for the next forever. If it's later in the evening, and my window is open, you can hear when I laugh. So I can guarantee that anyone in the alley or area heard me absolutely yelling when this happened.

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[hisuian-history-makers]

Writing Prompt Fifteen:

It was odd how such great adventurers/heroes/mercenaries could mess up so spectacularly.

You had accompanied a party of mixed ones years ago. Some days, they were the noblest people you could meet (even if for a price). On others—you swore they lost their minds to some chaotic force. The forever nameless thief patched people up in the blink of an eye using the same swift hands that pickpocketed. Lady Tremaine the Centaur Paladin delivered “holy bucks” to any disrespectful fools. Boomer, the party artificer, had a penchant for explosives though you still buy his bountiful harvest type.

What was truly chaotic about them (and party members who passed on) was that on occasion they would flub something. A thrown weapon from someone tripping managed to take out several foes. One of the clerics once managed to open a portal to the eternal pits. The singular Druid just made an entire army from adopting Dire Wolves. Boomer created inverse-bombs that exploded(?) into a single point!

Of course, no one believed your ridiculous tales.

[tehjleck]

I love this site for exactly that reason. The probability spreads are so good.

I’ve seen a lot of suggestions on my game design posts lately to the effect of “instead of rolling 1dX, why not roll 2dY”, where Y is one-half of X – 2d6 instead of 1d12, for example. In particular, I’ve often seen this suggested in the context of rolling a number to look up on a table.

Without getting into the nitty gritty math of it, the reason why this doesn’t work is that when you’re summing multiple dice, not all numbers within the range of possible rolls are equally likely, because some values can be rolled in more than one way.

For example, on 2d6, there’s only one way to roll a sum of two – double ones. However, there are six different ways to roll a sum of seven: 1/6, 2/5, ¾, 4/3, 5/2, and 6/1. Consequently, you’re six times as likely to get a seven as you are to get a two.

Basically, the distribution of 1d12 looks like this:

01: ====== 02: ====== 03: ====== 04: ====== 05: ====== 06: ====== 07: ====== 08: ====== 09: ====== 10: ====== 11: ====== 12: ======

Conversely, the distribution of 2d6 looks like this:

02: == 03: ==== 04: ====== 05: ======== 06: ========== 07: ============ 08: ========== 09: ======== 10: ====== 11: ==== 12: ==

The effect becomes more pronounced the more dice you’re summing. 1d12 and 3d4 both have a maximum roll of 12, but where 1d12 is equally likely to roll any number in its range, 3d4 is twelve times as likely to roll a seven as it is to roll a three. Indeed, for sufficiently large pools of summed dice, certain sums may be literally hundreds of times more likely than others.

Consequently, when it comes to looking up a result from a table, rolling multiple dice with the same sum of faces as a single larger die isn’t an equivalent substitute unless the explicit intention is to make it enormously more likely to roll some rows than others. Which it may well be – but typically not in the contexts where I’ve seen the suggestion come up!

[squareblind]

Dropping the ball: Peglin attempts a turn-based pachinko RPG

By Neil Merrett Peglin, released on Nintendo Switch in 2024, developed by Red Nexus Games While hardly a simulation of Pachinko, Peglin takes the gambling and ball drop mechanics of the popular craze to create a playful RPG that aims to give the player a meaningful sense of control over fate, gravity and bouncy balls. It would be fair to say that the UK has very little understanding of the…

[rollingtablesiguess]

Rolls to Alarm Your Players

Want to spice the game up? Why not try alarming your players for no real reason? Make sure to make a show out of counting the dice before you roll.

[theplushfrog]

My tiefling critfailing every religion check I tried so it became canon that her human parents* sheltered her from any religion.

She gained a paranoia from a misunderstanding and now believes that all pious folk want to sacrifice tieflings to their gods.

(* = She comes from a line where her great great great great (etc) grandparent made an unknown (to her) deal with a devil, causing a family curse where every other generation has a tiefling born. Her brother is a perfectly normal looking human. The family lives on the outskirts of their town to avoid too much suspicion.)

I think one of my favorite DnD Things is when random rolls become retroactive Lore/Quirks for the character. Not even as a DM ruling, I mean something the whole table adopts organically, whether seriously or as a running joke.

A paladin I DMd for failing every single perception roll turned into him canonically needing glasses and not realizing it.

A combination of failed perception checks and concentration saves becoming a character having ADHD and that getting worked into the acting.

My gnome barbarian with low intimidation rolls despite doing/saying some actually terrifying things suddenly having a voice that cracks like the "WHEN WILL YOU LEARN?! WHEN WILL YOU LEARN?! THAT YOUR ACTIONS!! HAVE CONSEQUENCES!!" kid when he shouts.

Or my favorite, my tabaxi artificer, Gus, comedically failing every religion check when it comes to praying so now it's a whole plot point that gods literally do not perceive him.

(Yes this is an invitation to reply or tell me in the tags if you've had any canon-altering rolls like this I love PC stories)

[pensareforwriting]

I made some random tables and rolled some dice for a writing prompt kind of thing. I'll include which I rolled.

D4 | Type

roll 1x

Short Story

5 Chapters

Short Story (horny) <-

5 Chapters (horny)

D6 | Genre

roll 1x

Sci-Fi (serious)

Fantasy (serious)

Realistic Drama

Romance

Fantasy (silly)

Sci-Fi (silly) <-

D8 | Setting

roll 1x

City

School

Boat

Apartment Complex

Underground

Rural <-

Isolated Society

Frozen Tundra

D10 | Protagonist

roll 1x

Teenage Boy

Teenage Girl <-

Man

Woman

Nonbinary Teen

Nonbinary Adult

Cat

Elderly Nonbinary Person

Elderly Man

Elderly Woman

D12 | Premise

roll 1x

Search for Macguffin

Betrayal <-

Caught in Lies

Happily Ever After (after struggle)

Parody

Everything Works Out (due to luck)

Government Corruption

Moral Corruption

Revenge

Comedy

Everyone Dies

It was All a Dream

D20 | Random

roll 3x

Weirdly Intelligent Dog

Mysterious Pond

Red-Haired Shopkeeper <-

Annoying Younger Brother

A Literal Ticking Time Bomb

Theft

Murder

Arson

Competition

A Cooking Scene

Kidnapping <-

A Weird Parrot <-

Shapeshifting

A Copious Amount of Chocolate Chips

Heterosexuality

Fourth Wall Breaks

Magic Tricks

$0.15 is Somehow Important

Ghosts

Older Mentor

[asavt]

Once upon a time a small rat walked into my web...

[quietsamurai98]