#dice shaming
So our party was getting attacked by dire wolves. My character was not only on the ground, but he had one dire wolf latched onto his leg while the other latched onto his ponytail and was about to scalp him. Coming to my rescue was the party druid who decided to shoot at the wolves. Needless to say he rolled a one, miss fired, and shot my character. Way to add injury to injury.
Recap of the last encounter:
Monk tried to kill the party by rolling three ones in a row
I threw my war hammer into a tree which then fell out and landed on the other monk’s head, almost killing him
Most of us got down to less than 10 hit points
This was against three bandits, and that’s it
Not long into a game of Call of Cthulu, our group (three people, including the GM) has to use a library for research. My character, a P.I., is the only one geared towards investigative research of any kind, so I’m really holding the ball on this one. No big - my stats for this kind of thing are great, the only way to fail is to…
Roll a one. Which is exactly what I did.
I wound up falling asleep in the stacks in a drunken stupor (I was playing an alcoholic), glared at by passing librarians who were apparently accustomed to this behavior, while the engineering college student and the small-time crook tried to puzzle out the Dewey Decimal System.
(It was pretty hilarious, and I spun it in a way that made sense for my character, but man. Talk about your epic fails.)