You don't get to complaint about dice rolls

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**BrotherVord**

Steelmage99 wrote:
BrotherVord wrote:
I flat out refuse to believe that dice rolling is 100% random and left to chance. I so consistently roll poorly that I find myself dominating games of Axis and Allies (where low rolls are better) and barely squeaking by in games of Risk and 40k. I chalk this up to having a very good mind for strategy and tactics, but poor luck rolling dice.

I believe that there is some other element to it. be it physics, luck, or something else. I see myself rolling 1 and 2 as much as I roll 3-6 across years of experience. It's not something that just SEEMS to be this way, as I stated previously, games where i need to roll low numbers, I do exceedingly well very consistently.

I believe you are suffering from confirmation-bias with a dose of Sharpshooters Fallacy.

I don't blame you for not believing me. This is something, though, tha so consistently happens that my friends, family, and in-laws all marvel at my ability to consistently throw ones and twos...independent of one another's experiences (it's not like my family tells my friends about my bad dice rolling)

So I dunno...if the experience is the same across all parties and people comment on it without solicitation...I gotta wonder.

I still have fun with 40k and the like, it's just difficult when you can't make multiple saving throws for terminators and ever have at least one or two NOT die.

**Brothererekose**

Possibly, what hurts/irks most, is not that your opponent borrows your dice, because he forgot his, but it's that you lend him your 'crappy' dice, that you seldom use, cuz they suck; But that they then start doling out 5s and 6s (for his ork shooting

) like condoms at a Free Clinic.

*That* is the time to really whinebitchpissandmoan.

For the OP:
It sounds like you were already crushing him, and that your one bad throw was the barest of salve on his already gapingly wounded ego. And then you had the *audacity* to take that away by complaining about it. Bad form, sir! Bad form, indeed.

**Grey Templar**

My opponents lament my good luck quite often. They'll pick up my dice for their rolls, that just rolled awsomely, and get rewarded with a fistfull of 1s