Comments on: Geeks Next Door – Night of a Thousand Ones

By: Gavin

Gavin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:00:03 +0000

When I’m DMing I often catch myself ‘fudging’ rolls in my players’ favour, simply because my dice like killing PC’s, mine or friends…

…that being said, my current crop of PC’s seem to be surviving well. I’ve taken to petting the things for good behaviour.

My significant other has a red D6 she used for GURPS. That was the one campaign where I found myself fudging the other way, cos that die loves her. She now wears it as a pendant, and I swear it’s been putting her new polyhedral set through some sort of training regime. Every since her GURPS character survived three consecutive, purpose built deathtrap sessions she’s had the luck of the very devil himself.

Oddly, she now seems to get ill whenever she’s not wearing her new pendant. She even sleeps with the damned thing on.

By: Crimmy

Crimmy — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:59:03 +0000

Well, I wanted to do this a long time ago, but I didn’t have enough time to get it right.
Anyway, the first part in what I expect to be a grand cross-posting of GND OotS pics.

Behold, the two males:

[http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm112/Thecrimsonmage2/BARRY.png] Barry

[http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm112/Thecrimsonmage2/Matt.png] Matt

Hope ’tis of your liking!

By: Iz_ismynam3

Iz_ismynam3 — Sun, 10 May 2009 00:34:59 +0000

Ha! I might have one to top off every one of yours!
My dad used to roll & DM with the current mayor of my hometown and when the mayor was facing a giant-about to kill his character he’d been rolling ones against all night, he said “Die, you gravy-sucking pig!” and 100% Critted the thing.

All I do is roll up a curving surface and that doesn’t always work.

By: Kowalacake

Kowalacake — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:01:03 +0000

We had a player like that. Well, a few actually. The wizard was the one who attacked anything for no reason though….

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:52:35 +0000

We used to play in a buddy’s basement which was also where is bedroom and bathroom was. Now, those of you know (or at least have heard of) guys in their 20’s know that their bathrooms are not the cleanest places to be found. Anyways, we punished “bad” dice by throwing them into the bathroom and leaving them there while they thought about what they had done. We called it Dice Time-Out. Although we no longer play there, we still threaten the dice with that bathroom. ^_^

I also have a crit die. It is a red d20 with white letters. After I roll a nat 20 on another die for a crit, I roll that one to confirm. It has never let me down. *Good die!* My players hate when I reach for my crit die, because they know what it means.

By: Neko chan

Neko chan — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:04:03 +0000

XD Omg! Jessi you rock! That’s like the perfect character for Barry! XD If I end up going to Otakon, can I PLEASE play a rpg game with you guys?! You make it seem soo fun! I’m still a beginner when it comes to the board games, but maybe I can learn a little from you all? ^_^ I’ll keep reading this and Geeks Next Door. ^_^ Much love!

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:02:34 +0000

i once had a player who seemed to role well only when he threw his dice at me.

By: Crimmy

Crimmy — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:56:36 +0000

Well, I know a guy who rubbed garlic in his hands to have a “better” luck at dice.

Since then, the only luck for him is to be able to throw them, because his hands either smell, or are somewhat irritated by the chems in the garlic. I suspect he is allergic, he says it’s his luck. Who am I to negate him his ideals, if they are good enough for me to laugh?

By: J.T.

J.T. — Wed, 06 May 2009 04:01:41 +0000

Everyone has their ‘Night of a Thousand Ones’, goesn’t matter how many sides your dice have, those nights still happen… if you’re lucky, it’ll be somebody else’s night.

Funniest thing I’ve seen done involving dice and luck? Not so much seen as do, but I never refer to my dice in the singular since the singular of dice is what I don’t want to do… unless I’m rolling to hit/wound the other player in Warhammer 40k. It must work, since one of the last tournaments I was in I had one of my models holding out against fifteen of my opponents and not only making every save for about three assault phases (two turns, totalling somewhere in the neighborhood of fifty or sixty plus attacks), but hitting with all his…

Until I made the mistake of using the singular term and promptly failed multiple saves, causing my model to lose all his wounds in one go…

So, yeah, I don’t refer to dice in the singular, even if I’m just talking about a single dice.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:17:00 +0000

I’ve never had to do anything – dice just like me. I’ve always been lucky with them in every game I’ve played. They just seem to wanna roll my way…