From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-01-07T05:35:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Dice Roller (#61)

On Jan 6, 2006, at 2:29 PM, Austin Ziegler wrote:

> On 06/01/06, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
>> On Jan 6, 2006, at 2:21 PM, J. Ryan Sobol wrote:
>>> I guess that must be a D&D inside half-joke because I'm totally
>>> confused.
>> 18 was the best stat a starting character could have.  If you got
>> one, they let you roll d% and put it after the slash (the higher the
>> better).  00 == 100.  So characters with 18/00 had some damn lucky
>> die rolls.  :)
>
> In most versions of D&D/AD&D, this was also limited to Strength  
> attributes only.
>
> This may have changed recently. ;)

Ah, yeah, you're right.  It's been too long.

Actually, I believe 3rd Edition and up did away with the extra  
percentile roll altogether.

James Edward Gray II