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ITT- Nerds take a 4chan green text way too seriously.

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The problem is that newbies see this shit and think it’s normal. One in every 20 rolls is a nat 20. It just means that what you tried went as well as it possibly could have. It doesn’t make possible anything that wasn’t already

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I think a lot of us get that, we’re just enjoying the joke.

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Their group should be setting realistic expectations for newcomers then and if they wanna do a throwaway fun session with relaxed rules they can another time.

And if people that don’t partake think a session is this wacky wild shit, who cares? They aren’t playing.

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You might just be the target audience of the comment above.

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I’m not taking the green text seriously in the comment you replied to, I’m complaining about the effect the general meme has had on the game

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I play with these noobs, and explaining that a nat 20 is not an automatic success on whatever the player wants comes up every other session. It’s a problem because it both makes the game more annoying for me to play, and less enjoyable for the person who thought their plan was going to succeed. I’m not concern trolling, I’m offering personal experience to the discussion

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Should it not be up to the DM? Sounds like the players here had a good time. Srsly this is what keeps players from DND: people who stick way too much to the rules

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Sounds like the players here had a good time.

That’s your read on the story?

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“David, my character was paralyzed from birth, you can’t just—”

Oh yeah it sounds like he’s super into it

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One in every 20 rolls is a nat 20

…no, no. this is not how probability works, even if it should seem to given the way we describe the odds.

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On average. On average. On average!

One in every 20 rolls is a nat 20, ON AVERAGE. That’s how probability works. Are you happy now that I corrected it? Was it worth leaving the most pedantic comment on the entire internet?

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