Weird behavior or just plain superstition

[Chimpira]

Do you do anything that might be considered superstition. Do you check the dice to see if some roll better than others. Do you not let people touch your dice during the game? Please write any weird behavior that you do or have seen.

[JohnTaber]

Fun question.

I have seen a lot of strange things over the years. I only have a couple of weird things that I do.

When I run, which is most of the time, I use one set of dice. When I play I use a different set of dice. :-)

[teh bunneh]

When I play wargames, I blow on my dice before I roll.

When I play Hero games, I have one set of dice that I always use (both as GM and player). When I play any other game, I use a different set of dice.

Silly, huh? And yet, it seems to work...

Bill.

[tmutant]

Okay. I've got two sets of D6's, both in little clear plastic boxes. I always put them in facing the same way. Sixes up, all other numbers facing the same side of the box. Just very anal.

[Old Man]

The most common one I have seen is different sets of dice for hitting/skill rolls and another for damage.

I get irritated with my wife when she touches my dice. She thinks it's funny. I get torqued when strangers touch my dice.

I try to avoid rolling dice on hard surfaces. They don't like it. Besides, there is a higher chance they will bounce onto the floor and into lost-dice-limbo.

Oh yeah, the biggest one...Color Matters.

[teh bunneh]

Okay. I've got two sets of D6's, both in little clear plastic boxes. I always put them in facing the same way. Sixes up, all other numbers facing the same side of the box. Just very anal.

My wife does that! For some odd reason, it drives me crazy!

[Magmarock]

I notice that people like to "claim" a seat and then they sit there every single session. If I show up first and sit somewhere new, I get a lot of weird looks.

I can understand the GM needing a specific spot, for room to set up the screens or so his back isn't where everyone can walk behind him to see the maps and noted pinned to the screen, but for everyone else... why so territorial?


Also, I am left handed so it is easier for me to look to the left. Therefore I try to sit so the GM is on my left. When the GM is on my right, I find it harder to concentrate on the game.

Mags

[Chimpira]

I notice that people like to "claim" a seat and then they sit there every single session. If I show up first and sit somewhere new, I get a lot of weird looks.

I can understand the GM needing a specific spot, for room to set up the screens or so his back isn't where everyone can walk behind him to see the maps and noted pinned to the screen, but for everyone else... why so territorial?


Also, I am left handed so it is easier for me to look to the left. Therefore I try to sit so the GM is on my left. When the GM is on my right, I find it harder to concentrate on the game.

Mags

I use to do that when I played in this D and D game. When someone new would take my seat, I would feel weird sitting somewhere else.

[Derek Hiemforth]

This isn't something that I do so much as something that the fates do to me, but I figured I mention it anyway.

If I have a spectacularly successful roll, it will be for something inconsequential.
If I have a dismally unsuccessful roll, it will be for something crucial.

Virtually every time.

I'm also known for things like...
Me: I want to do (insert easy thing here).
GM: Okay, go ahead and roll (skill), and don't roll an 18-.
Me: (rolls) 18. *sigh*

[Spectrum]

I sometimes subsitute one die for another if the first one gets multiple bad rolls.

I tend to roll the dice around in my hands before actually rolling them. Sometimes I ask the other players for complete silence before I make my roll because everytime someone does, my roll stinks.

I try not to roll my dice when there is no roll required because most of the time whatever number comes up is always one that would be very helpful and it'll never come up again.

[philnicau]

in our group if you forget your dice you have to use the Dice of Doom these are dice which have been discarded/thrown out/left behind by players over many years, usually once is enough, after that you rarely forget.

[Magmarock]

Wait... my dice are the dice of doom. For me, that is.

Mags

[Sketchpad]

I had a friend that used to roll "Demon Dice" whenever we played an RPG ... that is, taking 3dX (where X=the type of dice needed to play) and attempt to roll "666". If he was successful, then he and another friend would go on an ET beeping rampage ... that is, touch the very tips of their fingers together and go "beep beep beep beep" and then start at it again ... he claimed it gave him great luck.
I have another friend who, when playing the old DC Heroes game, would take his unused plethora of 6-siders (he had a TON of them) and, when the action wasn't on him, would start to stack them slowly, stating "I have x energon cubes ... I need x more" until all his dice were stacked.
Finally, I have yet another friend who would stick the old d10s ... remember the ones that you had to color with a white crayon ... in his belly-button for several minutes, then, pull them out and sniff ... yes sniff ... them. At one point, he had put both his d10s in his belly-button and, when it was time to do something w/ his character (we were playing MSH), he accused me of stealing his dice. I calmly looked at him and said, "Dude ... check your belly-button." Much to his delight, he had two dice to smell that day

[Blue]

I used to check my dice to see which were rolling high.
But these days I just start using a set and if they blow I swap sets. Doesn't seem to help in those cases though.

Aside from not being cocky before I roll, that's about it.

[palehorse]

I do odd things with my dice (like, I have 3 different sets, but I have to keep them all separated, and lined up in order - d4, d6, d8, etc. - and touching one another) but I think it's more low-grade Adrian-Monk-esque OCD than anything superstitious. (I do the same thing with the remote controls on the coffee table; they have to be in a certain order - smallest to largest - and lined up in a row, or it just bugs me. Strangely, the rest of the coffee table can be a disaster area and I don't care at all... **shrugs**)