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Dice rolling random number generator is heavily skewed

We've been tearing our damn hair out in the games lately. Everything is either continuously ~1-5 (pre-modifiers) or weird short streaks of 15-19. I've been rolling on my phone's app and holding it up to my webcam because it's more consistently random (if that makes sense). What gives??
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Kraynic
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Nothing off on the tracker:&nbsp; <a href="https://app.roll20.net/home/quantum" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/home/quantum</a> (Not that really bad luck is counted out.)
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Ziechael
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We all feel your pain! This thread goes into the topic at some length, worth a read.
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Y'know, I've read that thread and understood it, but I don't really believe it. I've been rolling massive amounts of 1's and 2's today (including two 1's in a row) and, with the exception of last run, for the previous 3 runs, too. I never hit, never succeeded on a Skill check, failed every save, just critically failed a poison save, etc... This is NOT fun. I'm ready to give up on this game. My champion is a painful joke. :(
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Kraynic
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Believe it or not, that is the way the cookie crumbles (as the saying goes).&nbsp; There are a ridiculous amount of rolls happening per minute.&nbsp; You just happened to get the "winners".&nbsp; One test that someone (Zeichael maybe?) mentioned in a thread sometime was to have the dice roller roll a ton of dice divided by that number of dice to run a test.&nbsp; For instance, the average value on a d20 is 10.5.&nbsp; So if you roll 999d20 divided by 999, it should be close to 10.5.&nbsp; In the past, I have had runs of good and horrible luck with real dice.&nbsp; That is just how things go when you gamble (which is sort of what we are doing, though we hope the house doesn't always win).
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keithcurtis
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Anybody who has the feeling that the dice must be skewed should watch the first Wil Wheaton episode of Critical Roll. There's a reason that they later kept his dice in a plastic bag and carried the bag with tongs. Some folks just sit on the wrong end of a probability curve. It passes.