‘Dungeons & Dragons’ geeks are shaming their 20-sided dice

Dungeons & Dragons players can have all the stealth, armor, and charisma points in the world, but at the end of the day, they’re only as good as their 20-sided die, which infuses the game with the element of chance. And by “chance,” of course, we mean “terrible luck.”

How do role-playing geeks handle this occasional failure of equipment? The same way they’d handle a misbehaving dog, a problematic philosophy text, or a website that fails to protect your personal information from scammers—by shaming it on their Tumblrs.    

http://schneiltzle.tumblr.com/post/89994517740/dice-shaming

http://spart117mc.tumblr.com/post/90688698153

http://dice-corner-of-shame.tumblr.com/post/96614284559/i-made-my-owner-get-seduced-by-a-tree-not-a

http://dice-corner-of-shame.tumblr.com/post/97159071010/made-my-owner-grab-dwarf-crotch-twice-instead-of

http://dice-corner-of-shame.tumblr.com/post/102371358836/i-made-my-owner-lose-a-drinking-contest-throw-up

http://pedanticdictionary.tumblr.com/post/100294194778/diceshaming-d20-dice-dnd

http://beranyth.tumblr.com/post/90905973449/calebs-very-bad-day-continues

http://partyinitiative.tumblr.com/post/100384852727

http://terrorvan.tumblr.com/post/101216085020/and-we-could-have-taken-remove-curse-last-level

http://dice-corner-of-shame.tumblr.com/post/94060066138/my-player-was-the-only-healer-in-our-group

What do you have to roll to incur the pity of a marauding orc? Oh, forget it, it’ll never happen.

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