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8730
... Any time you pick up a standard d20 and roll it the odds that you will get a 20 is 1 in 20. It does not matter what numbers that die has rolled previously....
Nick Barnes
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Sep 1, 2005
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8731
... That's the key however you do it to be quick. The most annoying slow down in the game is not when someone is trying to decide how to save his/her (and...
James
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Sep 1, 2005
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8732
... Let's see... I have my trusty official WotC d20 here... let's roll it five times: 1, 14, 7, 18, 6 What's the probability of getting that exact result? 1 in...
VirtualFon
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Sep 1, 2005
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8733
... I personally hate it when someone uses the "fast" method of rolling an attack, in which he rolls both the d20 and the damage die at the same time, but then...
VirtualFon
elondaits
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Sep 1, 2005
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8734
... But it is almost impossible to alter a die in such a way that it will roll that exact sequence more often than statistically likely. On the other hand, it...
B. Boom
jeremysteerpike
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Sep 1, 2005
1:22 pm
8735
... I recall a game where a player needed to make over 40 dice rolls on his turn, with six-siders. Two giant fistfuls of dice, dropped all at once into a...
Jason S Wu
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Sep 1, 2005
3:09 pm
8736
In a home game I rolled five 1's on a d20 in a row. All critical game- influencing rolls, not just personal saves or the like. Things became really fun after...
Anthony
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Sep 1, 2005
3:32 pm
8737
... You don't get stuck at a level. All the games you play between playing the playtest and getting the AR for the playtest still have their ARs count as...
Miles
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Sep 1, 2005
5:56 pm
8738
... stuck ... to ... playing ... ARs ... latest ... xp as ... to ... You do all that but you note what level the character actually played it (you remember,...
bokelightbringer
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Sep 1, 2005
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8739
... going ... played ... That doesnt jive with what I remember about playtest ARs. You are supposed to note in the Notes section of the AR that it was a ...
Miles
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Sep 1, 2005
11:22 pm
8740
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Sep 1, 2005
11:31 pm
8741
... No disagreement. Just noting that if all you do in a two month period is do slotzeroes and playtests, the PC is in fact on hold because he played 8 rounds...
bokelightbringer
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Sep 1, 2005
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8742
I don't think that at all! That was hella funny!!!!!! Frank Bayer ... ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make...
Frank Bayer
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Sep 2, 2005
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8743
... In a home game and most game days, you don't have anyone else to appeal to. Your DM is likely the Sr. GM, and his decision is final after the 5 hour game...
David W. Baker
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Sep 2, 2005
1:21 am
8744
... power. ... Tehcnically true, but if you demand the die as evidence and it is refused, that refusal can and should be held against the player. [No, we are...
David Argalll
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Sep 2, 2005
2:51 am
8745
... there ... departed. ... Well, like many things, what we have is an unintended consequence of the paperwork rules. To prevent any irregularities with...
bokelightbringer
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Sep 2, 2005
5:20 am
8746
... there ... departed. The reason I was given for the reason this rule was implemented was that they did not think that the triad/circle members should be ...
Nick Barnes
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Sep 2, 2005
7:18 am
8747
... I know for a fact it worked like that on GenCon UK. I also know that's the way it works at ALL GenCon's, and the other big conventions in the US. ... ...
Bas Vermeulen
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Sep 2, 2005
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8748
... until ... earliest ... convention ... second ... that's ... the ... It happend in the UK once. The DMs didn't find out about it until the end of the slot...
Nick Barnes
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Sep 2, 2005
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8749
... And if you get burned enough, you'll institute a rule saying that you get the AR at the convention, especially if it is a slot 0 for a Core Special, which...
Bas Vermeulen
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Sep 2, 2005
10:21 am
8750
Also Nick you might want to take a look from the organizer's perspective, If he has 25 people say they are going to DM then he is going to organize for 21-23 ...
Sean
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Sep 2, 2005
11:57 am
8751
... In my opinion, assuming guilt and requiring proof of innocence is the wrong way to do things. It appears that some of the big Convention organisers in the...
Nick Barnes
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Sep 2, 2005
1:35 pm
8752
... It's a difference of scale. In the UK (and NL for that matter), I know ALL of the people who GM. If they don't show up, they have a good reason, and...
Bas Vermeulen
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Sep 2, 2005
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8753
... Here's a question. If you die during a game, it doesn't actually take effect until you get the AR (similarly, you wouldn't level until you got it, even...
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jonnaughton
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Sep 2, 2005
2:06 pm
8754
... I'm not suggesting that the rules of when an AR should be applied to your character should change, so I'm not sure how this is relevant to the discussion...
David W. Baker
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Sep 2, 2005
4:13 pm
8755
I don't see how they would circumvent the normal rules. They might be bending the letter of the rules(deaths must be resolved at the table, I say bending...
Adam Waggenspack
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Sep 2, 2005
4:37 pm
8756
... player ... they ... the ... I think normally the reason (in our area) is that the premiers and interactives don't have AR's anyway, and the organizer wants...
bokelightbringer
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Sep 2, 2005
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8757
... In southern California, we have generally reliable judges who will run the rounds they've promised to. ARs are given out immediately at the round zero...
david_berge
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Sep 2, 2005
7:01 pm
8758
At most of our local cons, we have such a large pool of GMs that have some who don't show up is almost never an issue. However, the coordinators STILL like to...
Marcia Schoonover
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Sep 2, 2005
7:06 pm
8759
... At a convention earlier this year, I got a stack of APL10 ARs for round zeroes and suddenly had 20,000 gp to spend. It can be strange. What I have the...
david_berge
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