D20 Broken on Skill checks

[Duessel the Ardent]

Admittedly I am cheesing a mechanic and saving and reloading. Regardless I've seen NOTHING but sub 10 rolls for a only needs a 10 skill check. That is frankly impossible. I've reloaded in excess of 20+ times. This means the game has a built in auto failure mechanic of some sort. That is not acceptable.

[Ghost]

That is entirely possible and is just RNG. Might want to check for Karmic Dice in the options.

[IvoryTemplar]

Or, and hear me out, it's RNG and you're just getting unlucky.

if you want to always succeed maybe wait for someone to mod in cheating dice so you can always roll 20s or whatever you want to roll.

[Duessel the Ardent]

Does the Karmic dice auto fail you 100% after a previous success? Cause I'm at like 40+ reloads now and frankly that isnt RNG that is coded in failure.

[Heu, Iterum Id Feci]

Karmic Dice is probably active. If you had to many successes with that setting on you will not pass the next check. Same the other way around. If you fail to many checks, you will have a guaranteed success at some point. This persists over save games. we had a similar case earlier today.
If you don't have karmic dice enabled, it indeed is just a bad case of bad luck.

[Duessel the Ardent]

Ok turned off Karmic and it succeded. Jeeebus

[Mosey]

It's totally possible to get 100 crap rolls in a row, it's just not very likely. Congrats, you officially just have terrible luck.

Although I see you were using the cheater dice on accident, and yeah that setting sucks.

[Grimreaper]

im so tired of people coming into these thread about a constant stream of failed dice rolls and saying "its just bad luck". every time it has been due to the karmic dice feature.

you people think you sound smart but you are actually sound like a jackass who doesn't know what they are talking about

[Heu, Iterum Id Feci]

Originally posted by Grimreaper:

im so tired of people coming into these thread about a constant stream of failed dice rolls and saying "its just bad luck". every time it has be due to the karmic dice feature.

you people think you sound smart but you are actually sound like a jackass who doesn't know what they are talking about

One more reason why I think this feature should be disabled by default...though I can somewhat understand Larian...to most people true random gen doesn't feel like dice rolls at all, from what I tend to see on the different VTT platforms...;)

[id795078477]

Originally posted by Mosey:

It's totally possible to get 100 crap rolls in a row, it's just not very likely. Congrats, you officially just have terrible luck.

There's a difference between "unlikely", "improbable" and "near impossible". Also, there's a statistical notion of "impossibility", usually taken as "improbable squared". If we take OP's example then roll 10 is (I mean should be) 55% success chance, including 1 auto-fail/20 auto-success. To roll that 100 times is order of magnitude of -26...-27; Quick google lookup on "probability of a meteorite hitting a person" reveals it's about 1 in 840,000,000 which is roughly order of magnitude of -9 or -10

To illustrate how impossible order of magnitude of -26 is: it happening is as probable as a meteor hitting a person on Earth 3 times in a row at the same time. So short version: when you're clocking in past your 10th reload on the same roll, it's time for some skeptics. When you're past 20th reload like OP you know things aren't "just random".

[Oubley]

Originally posted by (っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ Rusty ♥:

Originally posted by Grimreaper:

im so tired of people coming into these thread about a constant stream of failed dice rolls and saying "its just bad luck". every time it has be due to the karmic dice feature.

you people think you sound smart but you are actually sound like a jackass who doesn't know what they are talking about

One more reason why I think this feature should be disabled by default...though I can somewhat understand Larian...to most people true random gen doesn't feel like dice rolls at all, from what I tend to see on the different VTT platforms...;)

concur, it should be off. The last I played, If I remember correctly, it wasn't even located on the page correctly.

It's burried in the middle. Hey, this important feature that can completely change your game, where going to stick it one of the half dozen option tabs and furthermore hide it 6/10 down the page.

Personally think it would be better off and somewhere very early have a "hey, did you know..." to turn it on. And put it further up on the page in the settings.

But hey I thought there should have been some way to hide that ugly mini map in the corner so I can see the pretty good looking game better ages ago, so what do I know.

[dulany67]

I think it's hilarious that trying to cheat the dice leads to frustration and rage posting. Karmic dice, indeed.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Duessel the That is frankly impossible.

It isn't, and Frank would be very upset with you if he knew you were making such wild accusatons.

[Grimreaper]

Originally posted by dulany67:

I think it's hilarious that trying to cheat the dice leads to frustration and rage posting. Karmic dice, indeed.

no one is trying to cheat. karmic dice is on by default and you are not told this. so, many people are just playing the game and because they were getting a good stream of successful rolls the game decided to say congrats on your good luck you now have a 100% of failing, get ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

edit, oh i think i know what you are saying now, you are talking about the reloading not the karmic dice

[Duessel the Ardent]

Originally posted by (っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ Rusty ♥:

Karmic Dice is probably active. If you had to many successes with that setting on you will not pass the next check. Same the other way around. If you fail to many checks, you will have a guaranteed success at some point. This persists over save games. we had a similar case earlier today.
If you don't have karmic dice enabled, it indeed is just a bad case of bad luck.

Thank you Rusty. Looks like the troll brigade got in here (the its just rng rofl git gud crowd, you know what you are). Your answer helped me and I hope it helps others. The setting should be set to off to start or at least called out that its being used. That was majorly frustrating.