My player rolled six nat 1s in a row last session

OP is Will Wheaton's brother confirmed.

sounds like me whenever I roll for my monsters to hit anyone.

I had an exciting encounter with a sniper planned out for a session against level 2 PCs, the sniper had +10 to hit. I missed 3 times before he hit anyone.

For us, it's not a player, but a character. A ranger with gauntlets that give +3 accuracy, to be precise (pun intended). Misses EVERY time. Not Nat 1's, but out of 20 arrows fired, 1 will hit. Doesn't really matter the AC of the target. If the player misses a session we have others play the character, and the results are the same. Two weeks ago, the bad guy mind controlled him, so I played him and used him to attack party members. 12 attacks, 1 hit.

When I played in my first real campaign I was excited so I bought some metal dice online. That character constantly rolled 1s and went entire combat heavy games without hitting something a single time. Turns out that d20 was horribly made and weighted badly.

They must repent for what they did in a past life...

I was Dm-ing a campaign and during the final fight, I rolled so poorly that my BBEG was decimated in about 4 rounds and dealt next to no damage to the group. I botched saving rolls, attack rolls and even with legendary actions I couldn't hit the ocean from the beach. I felt so bad that the campaign ended on such an anti-climatic battle that it might as well have been against a handful of lvl 1 goblins

I had a player like this. We once tested him, had him roll 100 times, he ended up rolling 8 1's and no 20s. And his rolls averaged out to I think 6 point something. (This was more than 10 years ago)

I'm the opposite. Dice love me.

One day as we were sitting down he joked "let's see how today will go" and rolled a 1. I replied "yeah, let's see" and rolled a 20.

I once played in a game where I beat a higher level npc because over the course of 20 rounds I rolled nothing below a 16, and my dm rolled nothing above a 12. The dm was planning on me being captured, and had to rewrite the adventure when I crit the bbeg to death in the first session.

In a perfekt world 6 natural 1s in a row would be a chance of roughly 1 in 64,00,000.
But by rolling a dice you can actually influence the result by some degree with technique.
It might just be that his natural dice rolling habit enhances the chance to roll 1s by some small degree.
For example if he unconsciously always puts the 20 on top and then rolls in a special way.

POLTERDICE. The only explanation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXy2awzR-mM

Does he have one dice or did he roll them with different ones lol

I've seen players that couldn't roll above a 10 the entire day, but this is something special. People love to talk about how you should be able to have fun regardless of your rolls, but I think everyone agrees this must have been awful 😟

I am the one person in my group with notoriously bad rolls like that. Meanwhile a couple others have big dice energy.

Our resident luck person literally took luck feats(3.5) because he botches so often.

My dice luck depends on which side of the screen I'm sitting on.

As a player I can't roll above a 10. Physical dice, dice tower, someone else's dice, roll20, DnD beyond, doesn't matter. I've given up on martial characters altogether.

As a DM, I'd roll in the open and hit every time. I started rolling behind a screen so that I can fudge a hit into a miss.

At least the final 2 of those 6 weren't death saving throws I guess.

In a not as exciting reverse of this - last session a sanctuaried dodging character got hit by 5 out of 6 attacks that needed about 12+. That was a short way from max hp to 0. We were so confident about it too.

My first year playing dnd I rarely rolled above a ten. My record was 9 nat ones in a 6 hour session four of which were in a row. It took a year and a half before I ever killed a monster, to make matters worse this is 4e were there are minions who have 1hp and I still couldn’t kill anything let alone hit. We played bi weekly. Thankfully my luck has curved upwards in recent years.

.05⁶ = .000000015 or 0.0000015% chance I think I’m on my phone so yeah a bit highly unlikely. They should buy a lotto ticket!

Sounds like me on our Weds session this week. Could not roll dice worth anything. WTB new roll20 dice.

Well that's impressive! One in 64 million chance of that happening, but is also perfectly possible lol. I might question how randomly he was rolling them though. If you don't give them a sufficient shake or throw it can sometimes make certain things come up more. But even so that's pretty rare!

The Weaton curse is spreading! We must defend!!

If it makes them feel better we just started a new campaign and my tank hasn’t hit anything in the first two sessions of gameplay.

That D20 would end up in dice prison

I saw 3 nat 1s in a row once and thought that was the shit. 6 is ridiculous.

Around here we would say he "salted the Holy Supper" to deserve such bad luck.

Sounds like he needs to play a Halfling. The unluckiest of the lucky. Fun stuff.

Most I've seen is 5, on 3 different dice, in a row.

I was playing a D6 dice pool system, rolled 9 dice and got a 13. My character died.

We keep track of Natural 1s and 20s in my session for fun.

The Harengon player has rolled 40+ natural 20s in 41 sessions. Our High Elf Rogue on the other hand... well, we think her dice are cursed. We also had a Halfling that rolled four natural ones in a row before the fifth was finally... a two.

There was also a session where we titled it "A Night of Natural Ones" because everyone kept rolling them, me as the DM included! It was hilarious. As a note, we all roll via Foundry so there are many jokes that someone hacked the system to force our poor Rogue to roll so badly lol

Lol that sucks. Feel bad for him. Curious, when he rolls, does he hold the die with the 20 facing up? I do, as superstition. Seems to work for me!

I hardly ever roll 1s & roll at least a couple 20s per session, if it's a heavy rolling session. Once rolled 4 20s in a row, all with different dice. Usually when friends are rolling bad, I'll take the die & uncurse it for em 😅

My best was 3...I ended up stuck to a golem that was trying to kill me...

R.I.P

That's astronomically bad luck, he won the lottery of suck.

Our Paladin in Out of the Abyss rolled 4 nat 1s in a row with two of them being a pity roll with advantage from the DM after all kinda of crazy low roll shenanigans from the whole night and bam 2 nat 1s at advantage. It was so mind blowing he said he was buying physical dice and never using DND beyond dice again.

I have a player who plays in most of my campaigns.

He never rolls above a 10 and has rolled many nat 1's back to back.

The only rolls he tends to get are rolls that don't matter at all.

This reminds me of when we had a combat encounter one session and over 18 rolls our average was 9

The clouds above start to swirl, the wind blows almost knocking you off your feet. The swirling cloud descends to the ground revealing a young woman.

The woman dresses in all black, blonde hair flowing down to her waist. She smiles when she sees you and says, “I’m a huge fan of your work. Hi there, I’m Beshaba. God of misfortune, lady doom, you know?”

She will offer that player to go on a quest that results in a powerful item

Same experience for me. 5/6 in a row, one of those rolls was at advantage too. This was the same campaign where I failed every dex save for over a year and the first wisdom save I made in 2 years failed and auto killed me.

Ohhhh that sucks big time, I’ve maybe rolled like 2 in a row ever

By the third nat one, I'd make it wrap around. Make his character so unlucky that it hinders the enemy.

Geez that sounds like me. It's a running joke in my group that I roll low. I think in a row, the most 1s I rolled was about 5.

Actually I have made characters that work better the lower the roll, for role play reasons. Course I couldn't hit anything, so saves were my way to go, but it made the outcomes more fun when I failed.

At my table we have a rule: If you roll 3 natural 20’s in a row, you get a free wish. If you roll 3 natural 1’s in a row, you instantly die.

I’ve seen the former go off more than once, but never the latter. Which is interesting since the odds of each are technically the same.

Exorcize the polterdice

"Highly unlikely"??

It happens 1:64,000,000. Thems lottery odds. Either they are incredibly lucky or that die is not balanced properly.

I started to DM this summer. I was thinking which method of generating stats to choose. Stopped at 4d6 drop the lowest. Then I allowed to do the reroll of 1 stat. I decided to check how it works. Rolled stats 50 times. Only once I had 2 stats less than 10. Most of the time average stat score before race bonuses was around 13.5.

Beginning of the session 0. We make characters, they tell me their backgrounds. We proceeded to rolling stats. One of my players rolled so poorly... he had only 1 stat above 10(11 in Wisdom. He is human cleric.) In total he got 5,5,6,7,8,10. Moreover he misunderstood me. He thought he could reroll one die when rolling a stat. So it 4d6, reroll 1 die, drop the lowest. I’ve never seen so many ones in my life.

My player had today like 10 or more nat20's. But that's not an end of the story. We had oneshot and I had given him an enchatment to his fighters greatsword that would give him effect of short rest whenever he crits. But that was actually my bad, as I forgot how normal is for him to roll 18's, 19's or 20's ... Never doing again this mistake in the future.

I once rolled 8 sneak attack dice and dealt 10 damage. If you play enough youre bound to see some insane good and bad luck.

My brother was DMing for a guy who was a fighter-paladin who crit 3/4 times in one turn and one-shot a dragon that was meant to be a deadly “fight then fly away encounter”.

Ive had players and me all do the opposite. In a row we all rolled 5 nat 20's for a combat. I proceeded to describe the most anime style combat i could

He should play a halfling..

The Wheaton curse!

My player rolled six nat 1s in a row last session

Eww, don't hang out with people like that. :)

I’m no statistician but a quick binomial distribution calc says this is extraordinarily unlikely and you should probably test your player’s dice for balance/fairness.

A lot of people don't believe in luck now-a-days. That's good, luck drops you the instant you rely on her. I used to have the worst dice luck, any dice. Every dice game I played most of my life I would roll terribly. One day I surrendered to it. Thought to myself, I'm here with friends I can have fun rolling garbage. Everything turned around that day. Now I can play craps all day in Vegas on $20. I don't win big but I don't lose instantly. D20s are also friends now. They roll exactly what they should.

A long time ago I had a string of seventeen natural 1s, but this was across different dice sizes not just a d20. Still it was frustrating.

I always do critical fails when people role nat 1. It makes for a much more fun, and comical game.

I've literally gone on a dice run when my luck got this cursed once.

Our tables record is 3 Nat 1s held by me, which is only ok because I’m the DM and it was open table rolls. 6 is astronomical odds.

That happened to one of my players. So I got him some metal dice and hoped some of my luck rubbed off on them.

He's been rolling better.

They need to buy a new dice set and give it to someone in need. Sacrafices to the dice gods are the only fix.

I am known, in DND and World of Darkness, as "the big ONE warrior". The reason? In Vampire the Masquerade, I chose the flaw "Haunted" which means the GM is allowed to sometimes mess with my rolls. He told me that after over 30 sessions he never had to use it, because I rolled badly enough on my own.

I had my first battle for a new campaign this week. My first three attack rolls I rolled three nat1’s in a row, with three different dice. The DM didn’t roll below a 17 on her rolls for everything attacking me (I’m the party tank) and almost knocked me out with skeletons. It just happens sometimes!

So I am not the luckiest with diece either although I never rolled 6 nat 1s in a row. I mainly Dm so having had nats 1 in a row is not as bad in that case as it spreads over differnt NPCS.

However I also have a Paladin character I play in another campaign and she is notoriously know to roll badly. not only do I fet nat 1s often with her (also had 5 in a row with her once) if I get a nat 20 it is usually when it does not even matter or do not want to (like during inititative, when rolling with disadvantage so it does not even counts....). However, as annoying as these low rolls are we actually had some great role gh or low rolls, or when play opportunity due to them. Just try to embrace it as part of the chars backstory now aybe.

That being sad, if he really does prefer melee classes, I can recommend a Paladin to your brother. WIth all the aura buffs you actually get to make saves despite being an aweful roller aver so often. Bless also is a great help. I also took the heavy armor feat just to make me more durable as you can imagine my fights take to take loger as i do not hit that often...

I roll 100 for stats, 1 for basicly anything other than stats

I dont have a player with bad luck i have the complete opposite, i have a player so lucky he even has luck outside his rolls. My rolls are terrible against him his are amazing and he somehow stops 5 feet in front of traps without knowing where they are even though he has more movement left to use.

Funny enough he is also a cleric of the goddess of luck in my world.

I'd see if it's possible to play the character by Murphy's Law conditions. It might lighten the mood but I'd have no idea how to go about it

had a player do 6 nat 20s in a session, 4 in a row. their luck balanced out later.

6 nat 1s is a sign of a bad/tainted set of dice.

In ye olden days players could fix their dice to roll a certain way. This resulted in tables having rules about dice being out and visible, and testing dice prior to play.

One of the issues with homemade dice, I reckon, is the lack of balance and quality control.

Someone tell him to play Halfling next time

Mine was the opposite. Last week my friend ran a level 20 one shot to use the tiamat we got him. I had multiattack, a potion of speed and PAM, and action surge, attacking with advatage and I score 4 crits. I didn't math it out, but that was the hottest roles I've had in the 20ish years I've been playing.

Y'know you can manipulate plastic dice by leaving them on a hot stove. Maybe he did but did it exactly wrong, boosting his chances for a Nat1 dramatically. Six Nat1s in a row is a chance of 1 in 64 million... 0,000015%

This reminds me of my very first DnD campaign where we were fighting a pack of wolves. For some reason none of us could roll above a 10. It was the weirdest thing. Meanwhile the DM was rolling high and eventually our DM decided he didn't want a TPK to a bunch of wolves and just let us reroll.

He should take one die outside and destroy it with a large hammer and most importantly, I can't stress this enough, make the other dice watch.

The other night my character got stuck being charmed by a succubus for several hours because I failed like 7 saving throws in a row. The party had to use stone shape to pin her to the floor because she was going mental after the succubus fled.

My friend never rolls below a 19, his first nat 1 was years after he started playing. I roll shit and when he becomes the dm I have to min max my character to keep up with his insane rolls.

Now that he got that out of the way, it will never happen again. Only good rolls going forward!

Higher a cleric and remove curse

OP, I noticed you did not mention a dice tower, have you tried that? I get the most even spread with mine, dice tower is the great equalizer

Achievement unlocked! Their character has just earned the lucky feat!

Has he used a dice tower?

Someone needs to play a halfling.

He's used different dice, dice trays, even other people have rolled for him (usually poorly) and still he just has terrible luck.

See? That's the problem. He doesn't understand fate. After rolling six nat 1's, he should have kept those dice as the bad luck has been exhausted, and the dice can now only roll average or better. By changing dice, he reset fate putting a new pool of bad luck to draw upon.

What he needs to do now, is get some new dice and invest in them for the long haul. Before the next campaign, have a pre-game warm up where he battles another player for $1,$2,$3 etc up to $10 ($55 total investment.) based on dueling dice rolls. Being fated to roll badly, he will exhaust his dice's pool of bad luck. It's important to have the amounts escalate and end somewhere meaningful. Fate doesn't care about triviality, so make sure its meaningful and the stakes go up. (The winner could also be a sport and buy the party pizza or drinks with the winnings as an offering to Istus, the god of fate.)

Then keep those dice rolling. Before any major games, repeat the clensing ritual as per above.

Time for some new dice.

https://youtu.be/XXy2awzR-mM

Just gonna drop Polterdice right there

Is your brother Wil Wheaton?

Burn that Dice!

I rolled 4 nat ones in a row once, I can’t imagine how devastating it would feel to roll 6 in a row…

My players yesterday rolled four Nat 20s in a row. The universe must be balanced

That should be a cue to retire that character

I was playing GURPS once upon a time, and I was losing a hand to hand fight against someone with a sword, so I decided to just pull one of my two pistols and shoot the bugger.

Relevant detail 1: with GURPS, combat rolls are skill checks, and they are rolled on 3d6. Lower is better; a 17 or 18 is a critical fail.

Relevant detail 2: In modern games, firearms are so reliable that even on a critical fail, you have to confirm by rolling again. You need to roll over the firearm's Malfunction number the second time around for it to actually screw up; otherwise, it's just a miss.

I rolled to fast-draw my pistol (ie, produce it without taking an extra action to ready it) then went to shoot the bad guy.

18.

Well, crap. Rolling on the Malfunction number.

18.

Checked the table: it exploded in my hand.

Fortunately, I had High Pain Threshold (so I could act without penalty). I dodged a hit from the bad guy and fast-drew my second pistol with my other hand (I also had Ambidextrous as an advantage). I rolled okay on the fast-draw, but ...

Aim and fire. 18.

Sonova ...

Malfunction check. 18. Gun explodes in my hand.

We called the session at that point, because the GM was laughing too hard to continue.

Not sure how to factor in the normal roll in between, but four 18s in a row would've been 1 in 2,176,782,336.

It's a more likely thing to happen mathematically then win the lottery sooooo.

Sounds like he'd make the perfect hafling, he'd basically have advantage on like half his rolls lol

If he always has rotten luck with dice you could let him play with a deck instead? He could even make one. Cut paper up into 100 smallish pieces, write the numbers 1 to 20 on the pieces five times. Shuffle them and stack them in a deck, or put them in a bag to draw out of.

It takes a bit of the randomeness out of it but I mean - that's the point here.

See if this helps.

Poor guy that is pretty hilarious though

Get your poor brother some loaded dice this holiday, geez! Or custom dice with 2 20s and no 1s

My friend has a similar curse. They have the best to hit in the group and the most swings. They have missed almost every swing they make including one session of rolling two nat ones, our dm letting them mulligan, and proceeding to roll another two nat ones and more misses. RIP

Had 23 Nat 1’s in a 6 hour session. Just started to assume I’d fail to do achieve anything.

A party member rolled six 1's in a row on sunday using dnd beyond dice.

She was playing for another character at the table while they did something else for a minute. Rolled a crit on the attack, and all 1's on the damage dice.

So he has amazing luck just in the wrong direction! At that point I'd say he is visited by the goddess of chance and luck and given the blessing of I'll fate. Anytime he rolls 2 nat ones in a row after this, it is considered to be a 20. The flavor is that the luck goes against what he is rolling against. The enemies weapon breaks. The lock suddenly gives away to rust. The shopkeeper begins to suffer a heart attack and yells 'just take it's instead of bargaining, etc.

I am specifically cursed when I roll Initiative, I very rarely roll above a Nat 10. Recently I did a lvl 10 one shot, had 3 combat sessions in it and I rolled 2 Nat 2s and a Nat 3.

I don’t know what it is with that specific roll but the universe just wants me to go last.

It wasn't that bad but one of my players rolled 4 nat 1s in a row during a combat one session. 2 sessions ago the group was rolling stealth and all 3 of them rolled nat 20s that was crazy, luckily they slammed it because the npc with them rolled a nat 1

From now on all of his characters are going to be Halflings.

Play Big Eyes Small Mouth 2nd Edition, you want to roll low in that, snake eyes is a crit on 2d6 rolls.

The odd are 1 in 64,000,000.

Damn fucking impressive.

He should have failed so hard, in an unfortunate series of event, stumbling through killing the bbeg accidentally.

Come on dude. 6 nat 1s =6 nat 20s (probabilistically)

D&D Puritans, i know, i know, kill me now and get it over with. In my defense, I have never rolled a single die except for d6.

Placed on this earth to balance out the 6 Nat 20's in a row the zombie in my game rolled

This happens to me all the freaking time. Luckily I’m the forever DM and my players love my terrible rolls

Tell him to stop using one-sided dice

Had a ranger even worse- 1st session. 14 consecutive nat ones on every skill they are proficent in. This trend lasted the entire campaign (before going on hold). However, rolled 20's every charisma check despite having a -.

He needs to switch to a caster who throws save-or-suck spells so he isn’t the one rolling to hit.

Give him something for it. I like the idea of unlocking features through gameplay. It unexpectedly rewards special moments that come up.

Maybe a lesser version of Lucky. Perhaps once per day he can reroll ones?