You've obviously hanged around a very different crowd. Not from what I have been, but from the norm in general. There are countless stereotypical little rituals and beliefs about dice in RPGs - some of them have bled into the general folklore about RNGs in video games but a lot comes from PnP background. To name some:BeerTent said:In DnD, you always have that 5% chance to crit-fail and nobody's complaining that the dice is fucking bullshit.
- NOBODY TOUCHES YOUR DICE. This is a big one and wide spread - touching another player's dice can, apparently, lead to all sorts of stuff, either jinxing it or stealing the luck or messing up the rolls or whatever.
- some people "charge" dice by setting them with 1 facing up, so a 20 (or whatever is the highest on that dice) is more likely to roll afterwards. Others "charge" dice by having them so the 20 faces up. And I'm not talking 5 minutes here - I'm talking days and weeks. I'm talking people who have a bunch of "charged" dice in reserve - when they need to make an important roll, they'll reach for a new one.
- some people, on the contrary, "punish" dice. It's similar to above, but it's sort of reactive, as opposed to proactive - if the die "misbehaves", it is left with 1 (or 20...) facing up until it "learns its lesson".
- before an actual roll, you need to roll few practice ones. It is to get the bad results out of the way.
- and in general, the belief that numbers are pre-determined is also wide spread - I'm talking actually predetermined - if you pushed the die by accident and it rolled a 20, it's the actual number you would have gotten on your next roll, thus that 20 was completely wasted by your thoughtless action. That sort of predetermined
- need to roll for movement? Use a red die - the red ones go faster.
And so on and so forth.
EDIT: Oh, forgot to also mention another popular belief about dice. It's the complete opposite of all others - if you try to use any rituals to please RNGesus, you will be striken with bad rolls. You have to do your best to avoid doing anything that could be considered "stacking good luck". I'm not talking just throwing the damn dice, it's actually going out of your way to make sure nobody has tried to "infuence" them.