Dice Questions?

Zander · Jan 26, 2005

Kevin Cook said:
I cant speak for the d7 as I dont know the designer ... but I know it does roll fair

I had a long chat with Lou Zocchi after that article about my collection appeared last year. Lou said that the d7 he used to sell is not, after all, fair; certainly not as fair as the d5.

Fairness, though, is a scale. As an absolute state for dice, it only exists in theory. If we take as our standard of "fair" so-called shop dice, the plastic d7 is unfair but the d5 is.

Of course, all this assumes a "fair" throw. In theory, an unfair die with an unfair throw results in a fair outcome if the two kinds of unfairness exactly counter each other. In theory anyway...

Zander
(Alexander @ The Dice Maniacs' Club)

Kevin Cook · Feb 1, 2005

NOTEWORTHY DICE ADDED IN JANUARY 2005

Gamescience Glow in the Dark D3 ... D5 ... D16 ... D24
Gamescience Prototype Colors for D3
Ankh D10's
Koplow 55mm D20's (Green and Blue)
Mint Condition HC Edwards Dice

THEMES ADDED IN JANUARY 2005

Palco Marketing
Glow in the Dark
Yahtzee
Gaming Industry Advertisement Dice

If you can think of a dice theme that I dont already have .. please update this thread

Raloc · Feb 1, 2005

Cool site

Grats on your collection.

Kevin Cook · Feb 1, 2005

Raloc said:
Cool site

Thanks ... I put a lot of work into it

Raloc · Feb 1, 2005

Putting up all those pics must take ages. Very very cool though

Kevin Cook · Feb 1, 2005

Raloc said:
Putting up all those pics must take ages.

Actually its not that bad

As a software engineer ... I wrote a program that looks for files with dates later than the last update I made ... and collects them for upload

With a fast broadband connection ... it really doesnt take that long

Raloc · Feb 1, 2005

Ah, that's good thinking. I'm a developer too. In the process of writing a D&D chat client for my group.

I wish I had nearly as nice a dice collection as you though

maddman75 · Feb 1, 2005

My sister is an artist, and wanted to make a sculpture of a dragon made out of gaming dice. She'd planned to get the dice by collecting extras from gamers. The project was abandoned when she realized that to a gamer, there is no such thing as extra dice.

Raloc · Feb 1, 2005

That would be cool, but yeah, no way she's getting any dice that way

Kevin Cook · Feb 1, 2005

maddman75 said:
My sister is an artist, and wanted to make a sculpture of a dragon made out of gaming dice. She'd planned to get the dice by collecting extras from gamers. The project was abandoned when she realized that to a gamer, there is no such thing as extra dice.

eBay ... there are Tons of junk dice there