Dare to DM

There is a trick to each dice roll. To get high numbers, try these:

d4: Drop the die from a height of at least 4, this will guarantee you get 4.

d6: The cubic or "Caesar's Dice" can be made to roll a 6 by blowing on them as they fall. Do not try with 3d6 or you will get 666 and Satan will result.

d10: This shape is not physically possible, and works only with the placebo effect to make players think they have rolled it, thus you can make up any number and people will accept it.

d12: Anoint the die with Oil of Abramelin and seek guidance from the holy guardian angel of dice to guide them to roll the numbers you wish. Roll what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law, 12 is the law, 12 under Thac0.

d20: Bribe the dice with payments of gold, silver, electrum, or ivory. Photograph yourself doing so, then blackmail them if they refuse. This also works on most politicians in the d20.

d100: This is a ball. Why are you rolling a ball for D&D? That's absurd, balls are for sports people.

green? the rarest and not one ive seen personally but it can happen

blue? classics of sky

indigo? violet? twilight babyyy

pink? also shows up at sunrise/sets

black? night. get goth with it

Equiping an armor tutorial

so then i tried "shag birds uk"

Anyway, early on, I do my rounds one day and get back to my office to record the findings. As I'm looking at one of the photos, I think to myself "Hang on. These look different from the others. They have black heads, not blue, and I think maybe they are bigger. Perhaps these are great tits?"

But of course! As they were still moulting, I wasn't sure; and so, with the wisdom of the terminally stupid, I confidently opened up Google, went to an image search, and there on my work computer in my office in my brand new job, I typed in "great tit chicks."

The results I got were not what I expected. But. Should have been.

I had to IMMEDIATELY go and fess up to my new boss and be like HEY I don't know if you monitor our internet use at all but uuuhhhhhh I can explain. Fortunately she just about pissed a kidney laughing, so it was okay.

When your blacksmith buddy says “hey man do you want a bardiche?”, the answer is always yes!

The trick is that they never “don’t see anything”.  I mean, unless they somehow get into a situation where they’re having complete sensory deprivation, they experience something.

What I do is explain to everyone what each character percieves in order of ascending checks.  That way, I can paint the fullest picture possible without revealing whether they’ve percieved everything or not.

For example, let’s say Druegar got a 12, Bleepin got a 15, Jace got a 24 and Ritzu rolled a 1.  I might narrate thusly:

“As you guys walk through the crowded marketplace, you are assualted with the sights and smells of Stonewall at midday.  Ritzu, the smell of smoked meat from a nearby stall makes your stomache rumble, driving you almost completely to distraction.  Druegar and Bleepin, you two notice that several of the local shops seem to have been closed for the day; there is visible damage to the storefronts, yet not much of a guard presence in this area.  Jace, you catch a glimpse of movement reflected in one of the broken windows.  It seems that someone is watching you from the inside.”

Maybe Jace saw everything that was relevant to see in the this scene… or maybe if he’d only gotten a 25, he’d have noticed a young scamp following them on the rooftops.  How is he to know?