Nadir of my Dice Rolling Existence
So, I have just had the dice rolling nadir of my existence.
Bit of context, I've been playing NWOD on RPOL for about eleven years now and I've maybe got about 7-8% of my rolls as 10s on their online roller, so a few fewer re-rolled successes than I'd perhaps average. Ho-hum, such is life.
Ironsworn has a system where you roll a D6, add your modifiers, and your success depends on whether you exceed either of the D10s that the game rolls against you. Exceed one, you get a partial success, exceed both, you get a full success.
Given we've just started out, my modifiers are all between 1-4, so the maximum I can hit at this point is 10, and if it's a draw, then I lose out. So I really want the dice roller to give me 9s, maximum.
I have five rolls to make to achieve my aim - Climb a ledge, circle round, jump out, stab a bloke, resolve the combat. Each has me rolling a D6 and the game rolling their 2 D10s.
Bearing in mind this is the same roller, and bearing in mind my 7-8% of historic 10s, my challenge rolls were as follows:
1, 10
10, 6
9, 10
7, 10
10, 3
I am currently unsure whether to laugh or weep. But I also know that I'm not flipping a coin to decide, because my luck at the moment is something else.