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Roll 4d20 online – 4 20-sided dice

MODIFIERS

Add bonuses, penalties or multipliers. They apply from top to bottom.

4d20 · 4 separate 20-sided dice

Four D20s build a twenty-entry encounter recipe 🐉

Four twenty-entry tables can choose a location, a creature or character, a motivation, and a complication. This is a worldbuilding use for a familiar die, rather than four attacks that need to be added together.

🍜 Even an ordinary result starts looking suspicious

D20 illustration — 4 × D20 — 4 D20 results, compact enough to keep the table readable.

⚔️ Scene from the desk

Four D20s create enough drama that at least one perfectly normal result will feel suspicious.

Raw range4–80

Dice in the tray4 × D20

Long-run mean42

Something wants something in the wrong place

Write twenty entries in each list. The example selects location three, visitor seventeen, motivation eight, and complication twelve. Start with what the visitor wants, then use the other details to decide why the encounter is awkward.

Location3

Visitor17

Motivation8

Complication12

Raw sum3 + 17 + 8 + 12 = 40

Forty-two is central to the encounter-recipe sum

Selected totals · 4d20
Total	Ordered sets	Chance, rounded
4	1	0.000625%
42	5,340	3.34%
80	1	0.000625%

Standard independent-dice model: 160,000 ordered outcomes. Percentages are rounded.

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Roll 4d20 online – 4 20-sided dice

🍜 Even an ordinary result starts looking suspicious

🎬 Something wants something in the wrong place

📊 Forty-two is central to the encounter-recipe sum

Something wants something in the wrong place

Forty-two is central to the encounter-recipe sum