Let’s be frank; humans are flawed creatures. Biblical theology speaks of the concept of sin within all of us. That means we don’t always act on our best behavior. This eventually evolved into the classic concept of the Seven Deadly Sins.
Dungeons & Dragonsis, at its core, a game run by humans. So it’s all the more understandable that these flaws tend to permeate our games as well. We’re all guilty of committing at least one of these common dice rolling sins. The real question is: which one?
Fudging Your Dice Roll
Pride
Maybe you like to win. Maybe you had a hard week and just don’t want to have to face another failure. Maybe you want to be celebrated by your peers. Regardless of the reason, you can’t help but sometimes let your pride get the best of you.
A small bump of the thumb, and that eight becomes a nat 20. Everyone’s cheering as you made a critical success on a task or against a strong enemy. It’s a win win, scenario, right? There’s nothing wrong with what you did, you tell yourself.
Asking For Advantage After Already Rolling
Greed
You want to reap the rewards of good investigation checks or gather the loot from a lockpicking check to open an old chest. You want gold, potions, and magic items. You like winning, but you’re not a liar.
That’s why after rolling poorly and seeing that six on your D20, you turn to the DM and ask for advantage on the roll, giving whatever excuse you have to justify it. When that doesn’t work, you look to your teammates for buffs.That cleric knows Guidance, your bard has Inspiration, maybe the DM will let them give those buffs after the fact?
Wrath
Rolling dice is the essence of random chance. But damn if it isn’t just so frustrating when you roll under a ten multiple times in a row. It happens too much to be a coincidence, you think.
But you’re not to blame, clearly, so the only thing at fault must be the dice itself. It needs to be punished for giving you so much trouble. Guards!Take this D20 away to dice jail.
Believing You “Spent” A Good Roll Earlier
Envy
Like we said, dice rolls are completely random. And yet, after failing an important dice roll, you can’t help but think about how the completely insignificant roll you made earlier to check the grass was a Natural 20.
If you hadn’t made that roll, then THIS would have been the time you rolled a Nat 20. The logic may not be exactly sound, but makes sense to you, and you can’t help but be bitter about it.
Buying Yet Another Set Of Pretty Dice
Lust
You are only one person, but you have more dice sets than you can count. You see a sparkling and beautiful set at your local game store, or an online Etsy shop has the coolest custom dice you’ve ever seen, and you HAVE to have them.
Maybe you justify it by saying each dice set matches a player character you have, even if you never actually played that character. Maybe you secretly know you’ll almost never use the dice and just like having them. Regardless of why, you keep doing it, because it makes your feel good.
Wanting To Roll For Everything
Gluttony
Usually, the DM will ask the players to make a dice roll. But not with you. More times than not, you’re initiating it. “I’d like to roll to investigate the water well” and other such seemingly innocuous tasks are what you’re known for.
Usually it’s nothing, sometimesthe DM doesn’t want you to be disappointed on a good roll, so they improvise some small tidbit or reward. You don’t want to miss out on potential loot, you want to find more and more, so you check everywhere you can think of, persuade everyone you meet, and try any roll you can on any task.
Using A Digital Dice Roller
Sloth
Dice as such a hassle, aren’t they? You either have to lug around several sets, having multiples for certain rolls, or you have a single pair and end up needing to borrow D6s for half of your attacks. Honestly, you forget to bring your dice to the session more times than not anyway.
The normal way is just too much effort. That’s why you preferusing an appon your phone to roll dice. Just input which dice and how many, and it will randomly generate a number for you. It’s so convenient.
