Just started a new halforc barbarian and got a freaking 95 on the 2nd roll. I almost fell out of my chair. Just started SOD with him after destroying BGEE. And I used all the tomes on him.
a couple of weeks ago i was screwing around in create character menus and i lol-fully made up a fighter/mage/thief and on roll like 2 or 3 i got a 97 i believe it was.....
so i started playing that character and had to stop because of this schooling upgrade that i am doing at the moment, but by early next week, that OP FMT will be continuing his quest
Lets see... all my characters I have a personal rule I accept no less than a 92 and have to get all the tomes in BG1, but the highest roll I got was a 98 Elven Beastmaster who, to the day, is my favourite character. And yes, we did get those tomes. My other favourite was a 95 Elven Wild Mage, and that was... less squishy that normal.
I just rolled 100 on an undead hunter. It's a paladin, making the roll much less remarkable, but still pretty sweet.
Before adjusting stats:
After adjusting stats:
I'm taking this character on a no-reload run, so she's probably destined for a grim death in the bowels of Durlag's Tower or some other, equally horrible fate, but I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts.
Back when I had the original discs (actually I still do), I had 101s-103. I think a 105. But I could spend a long time rolling. I wouldn't take a 101 with a poor str, and I wouldn't take less than a 101 on a pally.
On the ee, I think my highest is 94 or 96, but I've had a high frequency of 90+. Just never over 94.
If I cheat, to save time, I check down to 101 or 103.
I've gotten a 102 or 103 on a paladin, but I think the one I got just now is the luckiest. It's for a fighter. Not only is it perhaps the highest I've ever rolled a fighter, look at the strength (second time ever that I've gotten it)
My best was a 92 on an Archer with 18/00 strength...which wasn't quite useful for her, but would have been amazing if it happened on a different fighter.
I rolled a 96 on a human thief, just the other day...
... and then I threw away 9 of those points, because what I really wanted from the character was Imoen as the protagonist. Sure, I could have given her 18 strength, but that wasn't the point.
(95 or better on a human thief: one in 27500 displayed rolls. No autoroller for me, either.)
I used to roll long time for the perfect 18/00 roll on fighters but later realized that it is not that important. Because of the spell Strength. So now I am happy with anything in the range 18/50 to 18/99 as Strength sets it up to 18/00
@sarevok57 , I don't know if it's too late, but what was the /xx on that Strength score? I rolled a 98 paladin once, and the Strength was 18/07. I could just hear the muted trombone go "wraah, wraah, wraaah."
@lemarin83 in a way. The dice are rolled in the same way, but any results that don't meet the required minimum stats for different classes and races are discarded. That means that characters with high minimum stats will on average get higher die rolls - it's far easier for instance to get a high total roll with a paladin than a straight fighter because you're guaranteed at least 17 for charisma.
@sarevok57 , I don't know if it's too late, but what was the /xx on that Strength score? I rolled a 98 paladin once, and the Strength was 18/07. I could just hear the muted trombone go "wraah, wraah, wraaah."
In detail, rolls are done as 3d6 in order, apply race/class adjustments, then silently discard anything that doesn't meet race/class minima and a total of 75. It's that "siliently discard" step that accounts for the differences; a human paladin will discard about a thousand rolls on average before giving one that you see, while a human fighter will discard about 20 for each visible roll. I've posted a chart of how likely high totals are with the possible race/class combinations somewhere.
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so i started playing that character and had to stop because of this schooling upgrade that i am doing at the moment, but by early next week, that OP FMT will be continuing his quest
For a barbarian:
For an Undead Eliminator (modded kit) with plans to dual to a cleric:
Before adjusting stats:
After adjusting stats:
I'm taking this character on a no-reload run, so she's probably destined for a grim death in the bowels of Durlag's Tower or some other, equally horrible fate, but I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts.
On the ee, I think my highest is 94 or 96, but I've had a high frequency of 90+. Just never over 94.
If I cheat, to save time, I check down to 101 or 103.
Also got a 92 with an 18/00 Strength once, that was pretty sweet. Cleric/Ranger. He was a bit *too* good.
... and then I threw away 9 of those points, because what I really wanted from the character was Imoen as the protagonist. Sure, I could have given her 18 strength, but that wasn't the point.
(95 or better on a human thief: one in 27500 displayed rolls. No autoroller for me, either.)
although i believe my best roll ever ( which was in BG EE ) was a 99
my best roll ever in vanilla was a 97
18/47, so might as well have been 18/01 hahaha
Wow, I'm using this exact same portrait for my halfling cleric/thief. It's a great portrait.