Are dice rolls rigged?

[Millenia]

I seem to roll very low on a 20d VERY often compared to higher numbers.

[xposethedarkside]

No they aren't rigged against you. However, you can make them rigged IN your favor in the options.

[Millenia]

Originally posted by xposethedarkside:

No they aren't rigged against you. However, you can make them rigged IN your favor in the options.

So me rolling 4 or so critical 1's befor I even come above a 15 roll is just rng?

[Ukatan Hunter]

You have 2 options:
1) Deal with it
2) Turn on Karmic Dice to rig the game in your favor

Getting salty and complaining on forums won't get you anywhere.

[xposethedarkside]

Originally posted by Millenia:

Originally posted by xposethedarkside:

No they aren't rigged against you. However, you can make them rigged IN your favor in the options.

So me rolling 4 or so critical 1's befor I even come above a 15 roll is just rng?

Exactly. It's human psychology to always remember the bad rolls more intensely than the two or three times you roll nat 20s in a row. We don't even notice when that happens. We all get annoyed and feel like the game is against us when we have a string of bad rolls.
But that's the way rng is. It giveth, and it taketh away.

[Chadwick Strongpants]

Not this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ again.

[Grumpy Old Dude]

Yep, this *********** again....after each new DLC, we get 6 new guys making the same allegations as they last 6 new guys during the last DLC initiation.

Unless the 1s on your D20 at home disappear after you roll 1 once, then yes, you can roll them 20 times in a row. EXTREMELY low odds, but it could happen.

[psychotron666420]

Originally posted by Millenia:

Originally posted by xposethedarkside:

No they aren't rigged against you. However, you can make them rigged IN your favor in the options.

So me rolling 4 or so critical 1's befor I even come above a 15 roll is just rng?

Probably the same rng that had me roll 3 20s in a row TWICE now despite only seeing that two times in over 20 years of playing tabletop dnd.

[Ommamar]

Originally posted by Millenia:

Originally posted by xposethedarkside:

No they aren't rigged against you. However, you can make them rigged IN your favor in the options.

So me rolling 4 or so critical 1's befor I even come above a 15 roll is just rng?

There are mechanics at play other then just a raw dice roll. If you don't understand things like the use of light, particularly for a race that doesn't have dark vision you will be rolling at a disadvantage. Which makes it much more likely you will miss.

[guard65]

Personally IMAO you have to give yourself -3 in all skills, hits, saves, and everything, plus takes 200% damage just to make the game fair to the AI. You can always nurf it more than it already is, It is single player after all.

[Rizilliant]

I seem to roll 3 or below 80% of the time, no BS... While enemies seem to stay 17+

[Grumpy Old Dude]

your handle says everything about your observational skills...

[Cartesian Duelist]

Originally posted by xposethedarkside:

It's human psychology to always remember the bad rolls more intensely than the two or three times you roll nat 20s in a row. We don't even notice when that happens. We all get annoyed and feel like the game is against us when we have a string of bad rolls.

Just a note to the OP, anyone who mentions psychology and confirmation bias should be taken with the giant grain of salt that all Internet "experts" should be taken with. Unfortunately it's too easy to just spout stuff like this without a full understanding of the subject matter.

[Barden]

Originally posted by Lets Go Brandon! FJB:

I seem to roll 3 or below 80% of the time, no BS... While enemies seem to stay 17+

Definitely BS or just trolling.

[Cartesian Duelist]

Originally posted by Grumpy Old Dude:

your handle says everything about your observational skills...

Just curious if you're stating that people with different political views than yours are incapable of reading numbers clearly printed on a screen. If so, can I ask why you would make that claim?

[6Taylor4]

You might look up basic statistics and find Probability. any sequence of number can be charted on a graph; all single die share the same characteristic: each number has an equal probability (chance) of showing up every time. 20 die=20to1, 4 die=4to1. When add additional dies, you eliminate some numbers and limit the appearance of other sums. 2d6 produces a Bell Curve of probable outcomes, 2d20 will show an even smoother curve with the mean average always splitting the bottom half from the top half.

No matter what your desired or rolled number, the probability of a favorable throw is locked into the process of using the die, physical or digital; each roll is a truly random event.
However, in D&D, all rolls are subject to modifiers, both + and -, and so the final "result" of a throw is no longer purely random, although its base value remains to be that random result; still modifiers may produce results dice can't, when the base roll is 1 or 20 modifiers will drastically effect the final outcome, or "roll".

Computers have been improving randomness since the 50's; the current algorithm is generally considered to be virtually random. In fact, I think one does better with dice on a modest scale over a short time, because of the human added factor, it might take longer to show true randomness with dice that are unbalanced, or thrown in a repeated way that work for a streak; but over time when events have limited outcomes, like dice rolls, figuring the probabilities is straightforward and foolproof.
Just keep rolling!