Happy Survived the Holidays Day!

Luffy punching Arlong on Boxing Day. Fitting.

Dammit, where's the like button?

As a luck based game, there are ups and downs that come with every tabletop sessions. Some days it seems to be centered with giving some, and taking some. Some days it seems that the die are cursed.

But occasionally, the planets align, you're granted the grace of the Gods, and it just seems like nothing can stop your natural twenties and saving throws. Tell a story about a session that involved a character that was just on a roll! (pun completely intended)

This happened just a couple weeks ago, actually! The DM had gotten tired of us steamrolling every single challenge and gave us a battle significantly tougher than any battle is strictly speaking supposed to be; but the rogue just rolled... absurdly perfectly. See, in this system, the rule was if you got a critical you got to roll again and add that, and you could still critical on the additional roll too. Our rogue somehow managed to AVERAGE double-critting for every single roll for the entire combat; and what was supposed to be a tragic fight of two hero parties exhausting themselves over a misunderstanding became some more NPC shmoes showing up and getting stabbed into oblivion.

It wasn't exactly satisfying, but the sheer fascinating-ness of the probability we were working with made up for it.

D&D 3.5 campaign, and the opposite was happening. What should have been a tough but survivable boss encounter was going south and fast. We had decided to cut and run, hauling our wounded PCs and leaving our NPC henchmen, a squad of first level archers, as a sacrifice to the dice gods.

Our group also played with one special house rule: When you crit on a natural 20 and confirm with a 20, you can roll again. A third nat 20 is an auto-kill. Sure enough, our unnamed minion pulled the 1-in-4000 kill. Best I can remember this was the first time it ever happened, our first level archer NPC one shots a big bad that was on the verge of a TPK.

I miss Raxon

Whatever happened to him?

Exploded in pure rapture when he finally saw the Deadpool movie?