germanicus
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Post by germanicus on Oct 10, 2018 6:33:55 GMT
Does anyone ever feel the need to apologise profusely when they dice someone?
I dunno, but I instinctively apologise for succeeding when attempting pretty much anything that is intentionally speculative, making me feel that little bit worse a player.
EDIT - this, then, goes into my current line of thought... what are your dice rituals/superstitions (beyond the generic, ermehgerd, my/your/his/her dice are effin' crap/hot etc.)?
I'll be honest... I turn all my dice to show the one after every roll. If I'm super mindful of clock, I'll leave it if the roll was a 1-3 though I'll be cagey about 3's... for the most part, though, I often do it while thinking on the next activation.
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Post by gedditoffme on Oct 10, 2018 7:27:14 GMT
Does anyone ever feel the need to apologise profusely when they dice someone? I dunno, but I instinctively apologise for succeeding when attempting pretty much anything that is intentionally speculative, making me feel that little bit worse a player. I think it’s good manners to acknowledge good dice spikes. It shows an understanding of the game and empathy when they might be frustrated at you removing their pieces. They mostly go both ways, so just some of the friendly banter. Better than people who blame losses on bad dice because they missed an inconsequential attack at some point.
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Post by snotling on Oct 10, 2018 8:05:17 GMT
Does anyone ever feel the need to apologise profusely when they dice someone? I dunno, but I instinctively apologise for succeeding when attempting pretty much anything that is intentionally speculative, making me feel that little bit worse a player. I think the more important part is not to act like a child when your dice are bad. Because it projects you not having fun on your opponent. Im always annoyed when my opponent is tilting like a 12 year old who just got his wow account cancelled by his mother...
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Post by ForEver_Blight on Oct 10, 2018 17:55:12 GMT
Does anyone ever feel the need to apologise profusely when they dice someone? I dunno, but I instinctively apologise for succeeding when attempting pretty much anything that is intentionally speculative, making me feel that little bit worse a player. constantly as people never fail to Female Dog about above average dice rolls even if I spent a previous turns missing 4s.
It's a disgusting perception that your opponents dice are "always" hot and yours "always" fail. When I can recount most every roll made in a turn cuz my brain works that way.
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Ganso
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Post by Ganso on Oct 10, 2018 18:12:00 GMT
Does anyone ever feel the need to apologise profusely when they dice someone? I dunno, but I instinctively apologise for succeeding when attempting pretty much anything that is intentionally speculative, making me feel that little bit worse a player. I see apologizing for dice as reinforcing bad behaviors/attitudes on my opponent. I have played a lot of casters where their only out was my opponent taking a 30% chance assassination, and then succeeding. Bad on me for even giving them such odds. This is a game with dice, dice happen, accept it and move on. I just don't acknowledge dice results either way... ... unless of course I know it will tilt my opponent but it's usually enough to say "Tough, No Knockdown!"
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skormedlover87
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Post by skormedlover87 on Oct 11, 2018 1:12:58 GMT
I mean, there's a good roll. There's lots of rolls, some of which should naturally be good and there's hot dice. The opposite is also true. There's nothing wrong with apologizeing for hot dice, it's a random mechanic that somewhat took over the game. One of my matches at the first ATC, my opponent was playing Meowkeda. The turn I alpha'd he made 66% of tough rolls, I killed 1 Kitty and dismounted Rhadeim. The turn after I was almost whole still (he had problems unpacking because I had 3 huge bases and Tibbs in there) and I essentially re-alpha'd him. He made more than 90% of toughs, I killed a couple gobber's and he had to make frenzy checks next turn because Makeda2 had only stayed death twice... Hot dice.
The year after, I assassinated Denny1 GF on her feat turn with Drake sprays. Not hot dice. Whilst clearing pirates I had the opportunity to spray Denny down while hitting the 2 pirates that were all I could get with single sprays. I happened to hit that 13-14, then cranked the damage leaving her on 6 boxs. Seeing my best chance to steal victory (I was the fall guy that round) I set EVERYTHING to attack Denny. I got lucky on my 3rd to last possible activation. That was a couple lucky rolls, not hot dice.
Btw, one of my teammates just squeaked out a victory against a guy having trouble rolling above a 5. He also had half a dozen triple 1's. Ice cold dice.
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Post by MrHaystacks on Oct 11, 2018 8:48:44 GMT
I play Bloodbowl, and that's a game where the dice will cripple you or ascend you to godhood. Good tactics and play can minimise the damage but If you simply can't roll over a 2++ over 3 turns, to pick the ball, no amount of tactics will save you. But you curse your dice, laugh at the situation, and let your opponent carry on. These are games. By and large win or lose, you have had a fun game and a story to tell, The tale of Lying "5 Finger" Chuck. His lie? He had NO fingers!!!
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Post by deathbymelancholy on Oct 11, 2018 19:23:25 GMT
By and large I don't care. However, I once put 12 Ossyan feated gunshots into a Charger that blocked my only path to victory and managed to destroy the hammer arm and nothing else. I threw those dice in the trash as I left the store.
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gmonkey
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Post by gmonkey on Oct 12, 2018 14:08:21 GMT
Transparent dice, in general, roll more evenly than opaque dice. It seems like superstition until you realize that it's only because the clear dice will show imperfections, and they throw them out during quality control before those dice even make it to a store to be sold.
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Post by Havock on Oct 28, 2018 23:10:52 GMT
I won't apologize too much but I will acknowledge it when it happens.
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Post by macdaddy on Oct 29, 2018 3:58:18 GMT
I play Bloodbowl, and that's a game where the dice will cripple you or ascend you to godhood. Good tactics and play can minimise the damage but If you simply can't roll over a 2++ over 3 turns, to pick the ball, no amount of tactics will save you. But you curse your dice, laugh at the situation, and let your opponent carry on. These are games. By and large win or lose, you have had a fun game and a story to tell, The tale of Lying "5 Finger" Chuck. His lie? He had NO fingers!!! I have had similar experiences with warhammer fantasy. GW games can be so swingy with dice haha
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Post by MrHaystacks on Oct 29, 2018 9:50:45 GMT
I play Bloodbowl, and that's a game where the dice will cripple you or ascend you to godhood. Good tactics and play can minimise the damage but If you simply can't roll over a 2++ over 3 turns, to pick the ball, no amount of tactics will save you. But you curse your dice, laugh at the situation, and let your opponent carry on. These are games. By and large win or lose, you have had a fun game and a story to tell, The tale of Lying "5 Finger" Chuck. His lie? He had NO fingers!!! I have had similar experiences with warhammer fantasy. GW games can be so swingy with dice haha Yea, anything with buckets of dice or lots of crucial rolls will feel swingy. But I think every one forgets, these games are to be enjoyed.
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Post by Havock on Nov 1, 2018 6:58:02 GMT
I play Bloodbowl, and that's a game where the dice will cripple you or ascend you to godhood. Good tactics and play can minimise the damage but If you simply can't roll over a 2++ over 3 turns, to pick the ball, no amount of tactics will save you. But you curse your dice, laugh at the situation, and let your opponent carry on. These are games. By and large win or lose, you have had a fun game and a story to tell, The tale of Lying "5 Finger" Chuck. His lie? He had NO fingers!!! Blood Bowl only starts Firetrucking you over when you are out of or skimp out on (sufficient) rerolls. I swear, have four rerolls? Only need two. Used your last one? Consecutive shitty rolls. I play Orcs myself and won a local league -and nearly a tourney I subbed in to get them an even number of players- by simply playing it cool and not take chances. Also building redundancy in my list. Of course, such a careful and systematic 'taking the other team apart piece by piece'-approach was considered very un-orc like and I received a lot of booing. Too bad for them I live being the heel :v
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Post by elricaltovilla on Nov 4, 2018 14:28:51 GMT
Last time I played, I missed 7 attacks in a row with my Mauler against a light menoth jack. 6 of those rolls were 3s.
Who the hell did I piss off?
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gmonkey
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Post by gmonkey on Nov 5, 2018 13:59:55 GMT
Who the hell did I piss off? Yourself, apparently.
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