The luckiest newb ever.

[dentrag2]

So, i had a friend who had been interested in playing D&D for a while, but had never done it. So one day, as we were starting our little adventure, i offered to help him roll a character. (he was kibbitzing that session.) He agreed, and i told him the basics of rolling up a character. i gave him 4d6, and watched him. So he rolled an 18. I congratulated him and told him to roll again. so he rolled another 18. I was a little suprised at this moment, but i told him to roll. he did this another 4 times. after the last one i burst into tears, and when the other players told him what he had just accomplished, he started laughing. not only this, but he rolled the maximum on the money roll, and when i gave him 2 magic items, he rolled a hundred on the weapons and armor, twice.

Ouch.

[Blackdrop]

Those dice seem to be "loaded" with luck.

[Szilard]

Maybe the newb had beginers luck, works very well in poker.

[Spiryt]

I was a little suprised at this moment, but i told him to roll. he did this another 4 times. after the last one i burst into tears, and when the other players told him what he had just accomplished, he started laughing.

He laughed just then? Anyone would start to laugh/stare stupidly after rolling something like this anytime. The probability is like... Pretty hard to count, but very low.

[rankrath]

this is relevant, a guy rolled 100,000,000 chars and never had this happen. You should have bought a lottery ticket.

[Behold_the_Void]

Those dice seem to be "loaded" with luck.

...I'm going to have to agree. That sounds extremely suspicious.

[Szilard]

this is relevant, a guy rolled 100,000,000 chars and never had this happen. You should have bought a lottery ticket.

Well, rolling 6 eighteens is a 1 in 101,559,956,668,416th chance...

[AslanCross]

Maybe he really wasn't rolling them, but just dropping them? The dice tend to stay the same when I do that.

[Chronos]

Well, rolling 6 eighteens is a 1 in 101,559,956,668,416th chance...

I get a result of only 1 in 5.5E10, a factor of nearly two thousand more likely than yours.

Thus: There are 6^4 possible ways for four dice to fall. Of those 1296 possible rolls, there are 21 which result in an 18 (all dice 6, or the first die less than 6 in one of 5 different ways, or the second die less than 6, or the third die less than 6, or the fourth die less than 6). So that gives odds of 1 in 61.7 or so of an 18 in any given ability score. Take that number to the 6th power, and you get the odds of getting straight 18s.

Still, though, this is very long odds (and get even longer, when you also consider the "lucky" rolls for money and items). Do you really believe that there's less than a 1 in 55 billion chance that your friend is a cheater?

[bigbaddragon]

...I'm going to have to agree. That sounds extremely suspicious.

I was thinking the same but then I noticed that dentrag2 said he gave him the dice ...

[Paragon Badger]

That's what you get for playing a game with Jesus. Err.. [Insert relevant prophet here] I mean.

[Chineselegolas]

Now to watch as he never rolls a natural 20 all campaign long...

[Grey Paladin]

And is then striked by lightning, thrice, each day, for the (short) period that he has to live before the Reaper claims him for exploiting bugs.

[dentrag2]

Rocks fall, only he dies :)

[loopy]

Now to watch as he never rolls a natural 20 all campaign long...

With 6 18's, you almost wouldn't have to.

[Eldariel]

People seem to forget that rolling dice is about manual dexterity. A skilled dice roller can pretty much roll whatever he wants.

[Crow]

People seem to forget that rolling dice is about manual dexterity. A skilled dice roller can pretty much roll whatever he wants.

Teach. Me.

[Telonius]

People seem to forget that rolling dice is about manual dexterity. A skilled dice roller can pretty much roll whatever he wants.

I saw this happen in Vegas once. And got the heck away from that craps table before things got ugly.

[MammonAzrael]

Teach. Me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJbUwnnlIFQ

Watch him cheat at dice. WARNING, use of the N word.

[xPANCAKEx]

in a real casino its hard to scam dice due to the set up of the table - plus any person running a table that is oblivious to a guy scamming dice without alerting their pit boss is getting fired quicker than you can blink

they'll do all sorts if they think you're scamming:
change dice
change table monitors
close the table
and possibly even ask you to leave

rolling predictable rolls of a casino tables (in a DECENT casino) is nigh on impossible due to table design. the reason why the table is surrounded by the pyramid ridges is so you cant just flat bounce dice off it. Now go to some of the smaller, shabbier casinos, or back parking lot games, and THEN you're just asking for a world of financial hurt