Dice Karma  Sep 23, 13 Dice Karma  “And may the odds be ever in
your favor.”  In Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, this was
said to the amassed youth as they prepared to find out which
among them would be selected to be tributes. It was also said to
the tributes when they were presented before the people of the
Capital. “May the odds be ever in your favor.” Well, the odds
were not in many of their favors, as they were chosen from among
who knows how many to be tributes, then among them, only one was
expected to come out alive. So no, the odds were not in their
favor.  Players in role-playing games have to deal with the odds
all the time. Dice rolling, a core part of many games, is all
about chance. You roll the dice, you take a chance. The best way
to mitigate that chance is to have your character be good at
something, either giving them a higher bonus to add on to the
dice roll or giving them more dice to roll as part of a pool.
Yet even so, the odds are not always in their favor. Gamer dice
are evil, pure