d6: pips or numbers?

[sjmiller]

I am just wondering what people prefer on their d6. Do you prefer pips (aka dots) or numbers? I have a rather strong preference for one, but I will hold off a bit to see what others say.

 

[DungeonMaester]

Throwing Stones. Need I say more?

---Rusty

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Your poll needs another option: both/either.

That'd be me.

 

[sjmiller]

Throwing Stones. Need I say more?

Actually, yeah. Is that a game, an electronic dice roller, or something else? I swear, work makes me feel dumb.

 

[ZombieButch]

Numbers, simply for aesthetic reasons. All my other dice sizes are numbered rather than pipped, so you get a uniform appearance if the d6's are numbered as well.

 

[DungeonMaester]

Actually, yeah. Is that a game, an electronic dice roller, or something else? I swear, work makes me feel dumb.

Throwing Stones is a very obscure game that was only around for a year or so. Each side of the dice had 1 of three colors representing magic, mind or body and a pip for a type pf action. To do a action that requires a roll you roll all your stones (up to ten) and add all the realivent pips and colors.

The system could use some work, but what game doesn't? Not to mention it was the inspiration or one of my better home brewed systems which I lost due to a random format error.

---Rusty

 

[Davelozzi]

Numbers, simply for aesthetic reasons. All my other dice sizes are numbered rather than pipped, so you get a uniform appearance if the d6's are numbered as well.

I agree for the same reason, but if its an all d6 game I'm down with pips, or if the dice are otherwise separate from my dice pile (for example, we use a full set of numbered dice when we play D&D and other d20 games, but if we're adding action dice, we use mini-d6s with pips for them).

 

[Xath]

I use pips when I want to roll high, and numbers when I want to roll closer to average. My pips tend to roll more 6s.

 

[Mark]

I'm a pips man.

 

[Simia Saturnalia]

I personally prefer numbers for the aesthetic symmetry with my other numbered dice, but once I'm rolling more than 5 or so I prefer pips because I find them slightly easier to total.