That’s the thing: if you manage to roll a zero EVERYTHING goes wrong, all the worst outcomes happen, and the DM makes you go home.

That’s the thing: if you manage to roll a zero EVERYTHING goes wrong, all the worst outcomes happen, and the DM makes you go home.

How do you roll a zero

Edit: if thats O’Brien im guessing a transporter problem

Everyone always says “make it believable” but I dunno. There’s just something about seeing my players get hyped when I allow the super stupid thing they’re going for and they actually get that 20.

I’ll take that fun “I’m actually a God” moment every time if I can.

How do you roll a zero

Edit: if thats O’Brien im guessing a transporter problem

At the “get out of Dodge” part of an Avernus campaign, the party had to split up to solve a puzzle to get to the top of a chained floating island. Everyone had their own last stand encounter (they knew it was coming and got to prepare). The Monk in the party just noped out and ran up a kilometer long chain watching all the mobs chasing him slowly fall away and die behind him as they chased him. Even without a nat 20 his dex was higher than a blazed giraffe.

The second lamest person in that party rode a nightmare to the top, after driving his hell machine off a cliff to get more air, he dipped, summoned his nightmare, and watched the miniboss plummet into hell lava with his death tractor. I made him roll for that shit after he announced what he wanted to do and he hit a nat 20. I didn’t argue rules with the dice, it was too cool. He had crippled the things wings so it couldn’t fly off. Absolute dick move on his part. All of it hilarious.

-1 Charisma has given me a few zeros.

Don’t you use a 21 sided die?

I’m always a fan of “best possible outcome” for 20, and “worst possible outcome that doesn’t immediately kill anyone” for nat1.

If you’re 2ft tall and trying to destroy an iron wall and roll a 20, you successfully scrape some iron off the wall. It doesn’t just collapse spontaneously. If you roll a 0 1, your attack bounces off and your weapon breaks. Luckily it didn’t rebound and hit you.

It makes things more believable, however rule of cool is obviously above that. So if you can do a flip off a cliff onto the back of a dragon and convince it to attack the tarrasque for you before it eats you, and roll a 20 for all that, you better believe that dragon now considers you it’s deity, and will die in a ball of flames, acid, ice, etc, in your name while flying headfirst down the tarrasque’s throat. The tarrasque obviously dies from this, since it’s so epic.

I guess it really depends on the stakes.

Everyone always says “make it believable” but I dunno. There’s just something about seeing my players get hyped when I allow the super stupid thing they’re going for and they actually get that 20.

I’ll take that fun “I’m actually a God” moment every time if I can.

How do you roll a zero

Edit: if thats O’Brien im guessing a transporter problem

You know, quantum resonance in the Heisenberg compensators. Sometimes the dice spit out an impossible number.

Don’t even get me started on the time we rolled a natural negative

The annoying one is when you roll a nat 20 on initiative, and that just gives you an initiative score of 34 (+3 Dex mod, +4 Improved Initiative, +7 Epic Improved Initiative,) and somehow the monk still goes first.

Admittedly my wizard wasn’t gonna leave much in the way of cleanup once she took her turn.

Use your first round to cast Slow on the Monk.

Lol, I’m pretty sure that it wouldn’t have even phased him at that level. I preferred casting direct damage force/sonic spells. One shot the big bad was my favorite tactic, and the DM claimed he was trying to make the encounters hard to deal with. If I let anything live for more than one turn of hostilities, they probably would have been.