Mar25
on March 25, 2014
Augmented Luck
My wife will shake the dice for minutes because her roll will be higher. Entire. Minutes.
But we all have our little rituals, such as only rolling on books and not the table, preventing other people from touching our dice, or keeping dice neatly ordered with the highest number on top. Does it actually matter? Do any of these esoteric rites really impact how well dice actually roll, shifting the odds of chance in our favour?
Yes. Of course they do. Anyone who says otherwise is just a statistician trying to justify the expense of years of schooling.
I personally roll a d12 right before a d20. The backstory for that is that in one campaign, I did it on accident once and a 20 came up. Out of bored curiosity, I did it again, and another 20 came up. Basically, a minute later the table stopped playing the game to see me roll my 13th natural 20 in a row by rolling a d12 right before the d20. So now I roll a d12 before a d20, though it doesn’t result in a nat 20 every time, I like to think that any nat 20 I do roll is due to the ritual.
Eh.
I lick the one and the 20 and get 15+ every single time