NP Comic for Thursday, November 24, 2022

[Darth Fluffy 338]

NP Comic for Thursday, November 24, 2022

Happy Thanksgiving! ... at least, if you are in the US ... and not indigenous ... 'and this is why we can't have nice things' ...

"... but the table you are playing on had blood on it when we got it at an estate sale ..."

odds for four ones in a row, 1/160,000

I do like that Rich appears to be actually engaged in the game. Huzzah!

[ijuin 594]

3 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

odds for four ones in a row, 1/160,000

So, within spitting distance of million-to-one, and as we know, million-to-one shots happen nine times out of ten when dramatically appropriate.

[Darth Fluffy 338]

3 hours ago, ijuin said:

So, within spitting distance of million-to-one, and as we know, million-to-one shots happen nine times out of ten when dramatically appropriate.

We are talking smaller and smaller fractions, so I imagine one would not have to spit very far.

[mlooney 3,594]

I've had a 1:160,000 thing happen on my table. Party attacking an adult dragon t should have been a "deadly" encounter. 4 crits later and it was dead. Just barely dead, but dead. Given it's number of hit points and it's AC, should have been at least 3, maybe 4 turns of combat. Nope, 1st round. Didn't help it was last in initiative.

[Darth Fluffy 338]

1 hour ago, mlooney said:

I've had a 1:160,000 thing happen on my table. Party attacking an adult dragon t should have been a "deadly" encounter. 4 crits later and it was dead. Just barely dead, but dead. Given it's number of hit points and it's AC, should have been at least 3, maybe 4 turns of combat. Nope, 1st round. Didn't help it was last in initiative.

"He just mostly dead."

[mlooney 3,594]

46 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:

"He just mostly dead."

Reduced to 0 hit points exactly.  If played that NPC/monsters got death saves he would be making them.

[Darth Fluffy 338]

Oh, look, problem solved!

[Darth Fluffy 338]

Price is a bit steep for a D1.

[mlooney 3,594]

2 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

Oh, look, problem solved!

Wouldn't want that die for Tractics.  It works on roll below a target number.  One of the many quirks of the game.