Too many natural 1 rolls

[Pike]

Is it just me or is there way too many natural 1 rolls happening in general?
Given the odds of them on a d20, i feel like they're happening way too often, numerous times every single fight doesn't seem right to me.

[Phantom]

5% on non loaded dice

coupled with your personal bias where you tend to just ignore the ones that all worked but negative ones stick in your mind

so that 1 30 rolls ago... I remember that... then I had a 1 like 10 rolls ago, and a 1 like 40 rolls ago... thats 3 1's I remember, can't remember those 20's but I remember them 1s

[Pandasaur]

I just watched my Sohei crit on a spirited charge then get a critical on a cleave. Then she turned around and scored another crit on her first attack of the next round.

Personal bias, friend, Phantom is right about what you remember lol.

[Ashling]

Originally posted by Pandasaur:

I just watched my Sohei crit on a spirited charge then get a critical on a cleave. Then she turned around and scored another crit on her first attack of the next round.

Personal bias, friend, Phantom is right about what you remember lol.

I've also been getting a strange number of critical successes.
D-do you think? Could it be?
No, no. A company would never be so kind, but perhaps we are stealing the other's good luck.

[Pike]

Originally posted by Phantom:

5% on non loaded dice

coupled with your personal bias where you tend to just ignore the ones that all worked but negative ones stick in your mind

so that 1 30 rolls ago... I remember that... then I had a 1 like 10 rolls ago, and a 1 like 40 rolls ago... thats 3 1's I remember, can't remember those 20's but I remember them 1s

30 rolls apart would be pretty nice, since it's meant to be in general a 1 in 20 chance of happening.
What i'm saying is it happens like every 10 rolls.
My Lann had even rolled 3 natural 1's in a row, and it's happened on more than one occasion with my Wolfij, too.
Statisically speaking, that shouldn't be occuring soo much.

[zero]

rng is rng

it'll only show any level of accuracy after thousands of rolls, not dozens or even hundreds

[Trash Player]

Which is unfortunate but within the norm. Outlier happens too.
There are not enough rolls to actually average out to 1 in 20 within a single encounter or even gaming session in general.

[PocketPsycho]

I've had combat rounds where I've gotten 3 Nat 1's in a row, sucks a lot and makes you question the game's dice rolling.
Then 2 rounds later I've gotten a Nat 20, Nat 18, and Nat 20 on the same character, so yeah random is random, sometimes it's in your favour sometimes not.

[jack_of_tears]

The rng in this game is fubarred; I have +15 in most of my lores and routinely fail TN 17 checks - so often that I now save before each one so I can try again when I invariably fail my first attempt.

I have been in fights where not a single enemy ever fails their save, while they all do near max damage with every hit. It gets so bad that I no longer use spells that allow saving throws, as I know it'll just be a wasted effort.

Dice in real life don't roll randomly, there are techniques you can use to weigh a roll (some we do without thinking about it), the surface you choose to roll on changes the way a die rolls, some dice are slightly 'luckier' than others, etc. Thus, rng doesn't work for a cprg, we need more weighted dice (BG3 does this and prevents runs of critical hits and misses).

[IKerensky]

There is many many occurence of roll streak. Like 5 1s in 2 rounds. Or 4 20s...