Time to play, guess that Roll!

What do you guy's think?

Strength, Will?

Survival?

Will save versus Stupidity.

could be a charisma check to see if the sword accepts him... or something.

He will roll for everything.

If I were DMing, I would just call for a percentile roll. The higher the roll, the better the result. Roll a 1, lose the arm. Roll a 100 and what's going to happen happens.

"What do I roll?"
"New stats."

Gods I wish I could upvote this

well that made me audibly laugh

I very nearly spat water all over my monitor.

Yeah, this is the winning quote for the page.

Hah! The true power gamer. He knows, ultimately it's up to the dice.

And this, folks, is why you should always be cautious when encouraging your players to roleplay.

BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY'LL DO

Course, that's where it gets fun too :D

I completely derailed a game before it began by acting as bombastic as possible and telling stories while wearing bright clothing. I'd designed my character after final fantasy's Gilgamesh. unfortunately the DM has rolled the quest givers attributes at random and broke down laughing just before we met them. he'd made the man afraid of clowns..... i had to go to another room and wait quietly before they could even begin convincing him to talk to us.

i also nearly killed a armoured warrior in my first game by getting him slapped, burned, dropped and crushed in short succession because i thought of a good way to introduce my character as a prankster. i said hello to him, then went up to a barmaid and said, "excuse me, can you help my friend? he wanted me to ask you if you know where he can find a woman. He means, a pretty one, you know someone who is young and thin and-" she slapped him so hard she knocked out a pc, so i decided to wake him up with the water he was drinking "But he's drinking coffee" "well, my character doesn't know that" so after he woke up screaming, he tried to attack me, but the barbarian came in, not having seen any of this, and threw him up to the ceiling, where he caught on a hook, to calm down. then when we were about to go, he just yanked the guy down, bringing a support beam down on top of him. long story short, one nearly dead tank who needed a new mythril chain-shirt because of a few words from a bard.

INTIMIDATE THE SWORD!

INTIMIDATE THE SWORD!

INTIMIDATE THE SWORD!

INTIMIDATE THE SWORD!

INTIMIDATE THE SWORD!

INTIMIDATE THE SWORD!

Just a straight d20 Roll. No bonuses, no penalties.

Yup. I mean, unless the roleplay is good enough the GM just waives it (possibly faking a roll just to keep the group guessing). IIRC, Zoro doesn't have perfect control over the sword and still needs time to fully master it, but that just means it doesn't have to be a Nat 20. That, or he may have a relevant trait as well (I don't know 3.5 rules beyond a superficial level).

yeah, raw. whithout seasoning.

Roll an attack against your own AC. And you have no idea how often I've been forced to have my players roll this exact thing...

See, this shows the exact confidence needed. Throw the sword *then* ask what to roll. None of that "what kind of roll would it be?" to determine whether you think you can make it.

I mean, there is a Roll from a different system that Zoro could use.

FATAL's roll for Ball Size.

I am really curious to know this... Have anyone ever asked that same question from GM? "What do I roll?"...

We just call it a 'God loves you' die. Probably happens about once a session in my group, depending on how creative we're trying to be.

BLUFF!