5 Foot Step wrote on Oct 9
th, 2020 at 11:04pm:
And this is typical. Most people would accuse him of bringing loaded dice, but the dude doesn't own any dice. He does this shit while borrowing my dice, and they sure as shit don't roll like that for me!
Meanwhile another gamer at my table can't roll above a 10 to save his life. This guy gets decapitated by a Balor twice in the same round.
I actually own loaded dice and they aren't that consistent. Though the look on the DMs face when he found out why my rogue was 1-shotting everything with pies was priceless...
You can't actually rig a D20 to roll high consistently. Assuming its made according to the modern standard number distribution, even trying to "load" one would more likely result in a dice that consistently roll 8, 2, or 14 just as often(and probably more so given the vaguries of the materials. Even my loaded D6s which will sometimes flip over when someone walks past the table can still roll a 1.
Funny side note: I own amidst my collection a d6 from ancient Persia, 2200 years old. Hand made from lapis lazuli. Modern D6s are always made so that the sum of the two opposite sides add up to 7(6 is on the opposite side of 1, 5-2, etc). This ancient dice lacks that convention. There's also a very interesting variance in the depths of the hand-drilled holes marking the numbers. The hole on the 1 goes almost 1/3rd of the way through the dice, while the holes on the 4 are extremely shallow. The 6 is also right next to the one.
Now, I know, logically, that the 7 convention simply didn't exist, and the vagaries of the hole depths are down to them being hand-drilled.
But, as I sit and stare at it, I like to imagine that, 2200 years ago, some clever gamer was trying to carefully create a loaded dice by modifying the weight distribution. Then, in his very first game, he got caught, punched in the face, and the dice rolled into some cleft where it sat before being unearthed in the 1970s when the records from the antiquities dealer tell me it was found.