A Better Way to Roll Your Dice?
written by Donat P. Fevre
August 1st, 2007 · 3 Comments
During this afternoon, while playing in another DM’s campaign, I’ve discovered a way of rolling dice that could possibly improve your rolls. Now, rolling the standard way resulted in the typical results: some rolls were good, and others were not so good.
Now, one player was fooling around with his dice, and started putting them between his teeth and spitting them out. Interestingly enough, he was getting better than average rolls out of this! Our DM tried it, but he ended up getting nothing but bad rolls. Then he tried rolling that said die with his hand, and was still getting bad rolls. So we agreed that he had a cursed d20. 
However, if you plan to try this out, I would recommend making sure that at least one person in the group knows the Heimlich maneuver. There may be a risk of accidentally swallowing, or even inhaling, the dice. In the case of accidental inhalation, the Heimlich maneuver will most definitely be needed.
But now it has me wondering: Do you have any particular way of rolling dice that seems to consistently give you better rolls?
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Just being a DM usually allows me to roll 20s whenever the characters are low on hit points. Other than that, no special trick for me.
Anyone thinks DMs are more lucky? Or is it just that we notice it more when PCs are getting trounced?
I have a Dice Tower, a small-run plastic contraption that allows you to drop dice into it and it sufficiently randomizes it and produces more varied results. It takes longer and is less fun than just rolling them, though.
im a very sad little thing but i love dnd ive been playing for 2 years now and im a power player. im am also what you call a dammage monkey. only it is not for the reasons you think. i am completely by the book except one thing. i am a dice mechanick.
i know im a nerd but wee all are if your reading this. i love dice. i have 59 and a half dice. yes a half. i was bored so i cut a dice in half. by the way i collect knives. i have 24 as of yesterday. i have in dnd a lvl 33 scorcerer. a level 98 fighter who is so strong he ascended to godhood and several lvl 30 and below people who are of no importance. anyway i would love it if you would e-mail me back to talk. and i appologise for the horrible spelling i suck at spelling. a huge dnd fan: Jordan Vivian
i was bored one day so i spent several hours on a saturday (yes a saturday!) rolling my d20. after a while i dont know how but i can roll what i want. if i need to roll high i do and vice versa if i need to roll low.
my e-mail is: electric.flame@hotmail.com