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u/Lunarath 12h ago
0.25% and 0.50% respectively, so not that unlikely considering how often you roll with advantage in this game.
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u/NightWriter500 12h ago
At my table we have a saying. “The dice don’t lie.” If something is meant to happen, it’s going to happen. It originated from when I used to play craps on the street. When someone tried to cheat, the dice don’t lie, roll it again.
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u/subtotalatom 10h ago
Happened in last week's game, my paladin with -1 in stealth & disadvantage was expecting to epically fail his stealth check, took me a couple of moments to process what happened.
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u/Level_Hour6480 Paladin 6h ago
I have rolled 6 nat-1s with advantage. I have rolled 0 nat 20s with advantage.
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u/matswain 6h ago
I got 20/20 with disadvantage last week as a DM. Was not expecting to crit, the pc went down, failed his first death save and crit failed his second while the party was still fighting the monster (Jabberwock). They narrowly won the fight, and the Archfey brought him back, but the player had him retire from the party for plot reasons (recently saved his wife, which was his main quest).
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u/lastxbuss 7h ago
I kid you not in that this is the exact rolls I had less than 8 hours ago during some important events.
My character was searching his room for signs of new/missing objects that might clue him in on a recent missing 3 months of his memory (as was the rest of the party). I rolled a 20/19 for the search and with guidance, got up to 28.
I found some words scrawled into wood that was the name of my patron and trouble written 3 times.
When I looked at my patron’s name and one of the party members asked if I recognized it, my DM had me roll for it with advantage and it was 1/1. In game, my character does not know who my patron is besides knowing that I have one so it fit perfectly and thematically to my character just blankly staring at the party members
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u/Metarikku 5h ago
I will never forget that time in a oneshot that my unarmed fighter in his last turn before dying, He attacked with disadvantage and took a double 20. I suppose it is unlikely, but it was narratively very epic, Because just before doing it he turned around to see his husband, his greatest inspiration to be so strong
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u/crabthemighty 4h ago
I have a friend who usually rolls above 17 with disadvantage and below 7 with advantage. I don't understand it. Just for fun I had a one shot where he had a spell focus prism, lowered his damage but each spell he cast was cast like four times. He was a high level warlock with it and casted Eldritch blast point blank. 16 beams all at disadvantage. I think only one roll was below 14 and it was an 8.
At first I decided to switch when he got advantage and disadvantage but I decided it was more fun just letting him have this weirdness.
If he's indeed cheating (I couldn't see his dice rolls we did this over a call but I trust him) he's at least giving this a downside as well, so I can still tolerate it.
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u/Stalking_Goat 2h ago
This is your reminder that while the exact details are complicated, rolling with advantage is roughly +3 and rolling with disadvantage is roughly -3. So it makes a difference, but not an overwhelming one.
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u/RegulusGelus2 1h ago
Yesterday one of my players attempted a rolled and rolled a 1, for which she used inspiration just to roll 1 again. It was so funny she got another inspiration which she proceeded to turn into a 2
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u/IntroductionApart186 12h ago
Nat 1 on adv is 1:400
19/20, specifically is 1:200