Dice are Cool

[Aus_Snow]

Yep, I hear ya. Dice are cool. Not something I can really justify, but whatever. They're just cool.

Think I'm crazy?

. . .

 

[Gargoyle]

Just take a d12 and number it 1 through 4 three times... the same way they make d3s and d2s out of six-siders.

I just roll a d8 and divide by 2, rounding up. But I am glad that people are busily researching non-caltrop d4's.

 

[Xyanthon]

Yeah, I think the dice tip it for me too. I like to have all those many sided dice in a gaming session. d4,d6,d8,d10,d12,d20.....I don't know why but there is just something magical about a bag full of all those polyhedrons.

 

[Vrecknidj]

Instead of the d4, roll a d12 and a d3 and divide the result of the former by the result of the latter and find interesting ways to round off the non-integer results so that you get an even distribution.

Or, stick with the d4.



I like dice too, I have hundreds of them.

Dave

 

[Gargoyle]

This thread reminds me of a link I ran across the other day. I was doing some research for something unrelated, and it gave me visions of ancient Greeks rolling up characters.

http://www.kheper.net/topics/cosmology/solids.html

 

[Jdvn1]

My dice bag looks so sad when it sits there unussed after I pull out only 3d6.

Anyone else feel this way?

I feel that way about d12s.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I feel that way about d12s.

And me, I feel that way about D8s.

 

[Staffan]

Actually, if you go to Gamescience.com (which may now be relocated to Gamestation.com), you'll find a d8 which simply has 1-4 twice.

I wouldn't like that. I like that you can instantly identify a die by just looking at its shape.

One night at my old gaming club, one of the guys had the worst luck. He couldn't roll double-digit numbers for hours. Then he looked a little closer at the d20 he had been using, and noticed that it was not a d20 at all - it was an old-school d10, the kind that's shaped like a d20 but is numbered 1-10 twice (or maybe 0-9 - anyway, he never rolled a 0 so that didn't come up). I don't want a similar thing to happen with my d8s.

 

[Frostmarrow]

The dice are what convinced me to use Savage Worlds as my generic RPG engine of choice.

Yeah , I love those character sheets where you get to fill in the die you have. I haven't played SW but it seems to me the system will break after a while. I mean if the standard DC is 4 then 1d4+3 is enough to guarantee success, not to mention 1d12+12 or whatever.

I am a dice lover too so if a game brags about only using d6s or d10s I'm a little less interested. Dice pool games suck. -d20 & Co rules.

 

[Geek Messiah]

I like a few other game systems outisde of D20... (and previous D&D incarnations...)

Like, for instance GURPS. I like GURPS, and think it's a pretty good design. But what eventually draws me back to d20 is the dice. 3d6 (the GURPS method) just gets boring after a while.

I gots me a bag full o' neat lookin dice an I wanna use em!

My dice bag looks so sad when it sits there unussed after I pull out only 3d6.

Anyone else feel this way?

Totally Agree. I like rolling and I think that is why I can never get into diceless rpgs (though I respect gamers who enjoy those kind of games).

I like the randomness. But that's just me