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playing BG3
rolls 3 1s in a row
enables the option for "fairer dice"
rolls another 3 1s in a row
Fair dice was broken, at least a launch. If you had a really high armor class the NPCs would get an absurd number of nat 20s if that was the only way they could hit you.
In PF2e, you get Hero Points which allow you to reroll checks. We use a house rule that if you use a Hero Point and roll the same number on the die, you must use that number (no more rerolls) however you don't spend your Hero Point.
It comes up surprisingly often.
Statistically it comes up 5% of the time you use a hero point, so yeah, about as often as rolling a nat 20.
Yep! But there's typing that out, and then there's experiencing it first hand, and the latter can be surprising. ;)
Sounds like salience bias.
It's just like playing XCOM. Basic math says there's a 95% chance of something bad not happening? You'd better believe it's happening every single session!
If you read it as 1 in 20 it now doesn't feel anywhere near as certain.
You shoot a lot of aliens in xcom, it's bound to happen eventually.
I bet it comes up approximately 1/20 times it'd used.
Just about that, yes!
I prefer Fate's system:
When you don't like your roll, you can either reroll or take a flat bonus. Because Fate is a dice pool instead of flat-probability-1d20, if you do take the reroll to make up for an atrocious roll, you're less likely to get another atrocious roll. Usually you just need the little bump to make a difference.
I still haven't gotten around to giving Fate a try, but been on my list a while. Too many games not enough time!
D&D 5e has a similar system.
I was thinking of that as a house rule for Mutants and Masterminds (which has a similar system, but is much more generous with the reroll). I think it's better if you don't feel like you wasted the Hero Point because you rolled low.
That said, it works best if it's a success/fail type thing. I understand pathfinder has a lot of things with critical success and critical failure. I guess you get it back if you don't score better?
The new 5e rules have the same called inspiration. Inspiration points are given out at the DMs discretion. It's a nice reward to give out for stuff like good roleplay and what not. I'm guessing it's the same for hero points.
By "new 5e rules," do you mean 5.5e released in 2024? If so, DM Inspiration is not new to them, and was in 5e when it originally released in 2014. I'm not familiar if there were changes made, though, as I don't play dnd anymore.
I think before it let you roll with advantage while the new rules lets you reroll afterwards if you don't like the results. I'm not super familiar with the pre 2024 rules though.
I think you're correct on the old rule. You had to declare in advance that you were spending it. No idea on the new rule though.
that image cut kinda makes it look like anakin is up to their shoulders in lava...
You'd expect it to happen ~5% of the time on a fair die. But, I'd be willing to bet a lot of dice aren't actually fair and so the results get weighted.
Iirc the Lucky feat statistically averages out to something like a +3.5 on your roll
Considerably more given you'll generally use it on a bad roll.