Rasagal
2009-08-06, 12:18 AM
So, after years of trying to convince my friends to give a chance on a role-playing game we finally started playing D&D 3.5e. The whole thing was a success as my new players loved it and now they pull me in to dm their game as often as possible(played four 5-hour sessions this week alone. All is going along beautiful.
Except of course that ofter a few rolls of the dice we started to find a pattern. Mainly, the dice love me. In almost every single encounter the barbarian gets a faceful of critical rolled with max damage or the wizard's spell get resisted by my rolls emptying his spell slots with almost no real contribution to the battle. I tried to roll a 20sided die in front of them to show them it doesn't really work that way but i ended up getting 3 natural 20's on a row so i stopped.
And of course it goes the other way around too. After an encounter with a bunch of dire bats where they had the outstanding idea to blind them with a thunderstone(seriously, i was like "whoah") they end up almost getting killed cause they ALL dropped their weapons twice by rolling 1.
Seriously, the barbarian has only critted 3 times in like 7 sessions and the one time the bard critted with his bow he rolled a 1 for damage.
To all you experienced DM's out there, what the hell is going on? They are starting to threaten me with physical violence every time i grasp the d20 now. And i can't really face them up with any strong monsters cause even 3 hobgoblins ended up almost killing them.
Except of course that ofter a few rolls of the dice we started to find a pattern. Mainly, the dice love me. In almost every single encounter the barbarian gets a faceful of critical rolled with max damage or the wizard's spell get resisted by my rolls emptying his spell slots with almost no real contribution to the battle. I tried to roll a 20sided die in front of them to show them it doesn't really work that way but i ended up getting 3 natural 20's on a row so i stopped.
And of course it goes the other way around too. After an encounter with a bunch of dire bats where they had the outstanding idea to blind them with a thunderstone(seriously, i was like "whoah") they end up almost getting killed cause they ALL dropped their weapons twice by rolling 1.
Seriously, the barbarian has only critted 3 times in like 7 sessions and the one time the bard critted with his bow he rolled a 1 for damage.
To all you experienced DM's out there, what the hell is going on? They are starting to threaten me with physical violence every time i grasp the d20 now. And i can't really face them up with any strong monsters cause even 3 hobgoblins ended up almost killing them.