Dice Survivor, Round IV

[Gez]

After eliminating the d3, d4, and d12, now is time for Round 4! Ready to Rumble!

And the Math Teacher Award goes to Orsal, who demonstrated to us why the d10 is unclean and need to be voted off ASAP:

A bit more: there are three kinds of symmetry a polyhedron can have (well, there are more, but three that I'm discussing here): Vertex-transitivity, meaning that the geometry of the solid itself can't distinguish any vertex from any other; Edge-transitivity, meaning that pure geometry can't distinguish any edge from any other; Face-transitivity (you get the pattern). By "pure geometry", I mean the shape of the die, ignoring labels. You can tell the difference between the face of your d6 labelled "6" and the face labelled "2" because, well, one is labelled "6" and the other is labelled "2". But if you were able to obliterate the labels, the die would look exactly the same with the "6" on top as with the "2" on top.

The five platonic solids are the only polyhedra which are both face-transitive and vertex-transitive. It's not hard to show, with a little high-school level mathematics, that there are only those five, and you end up getting edge-transitivity for free. But if you demand only one kind of transitivity, there are infinitely many possibilities. All your more exotic dice (by "more exotic" I mean "not included way back when", so the d10 counts) are face-transitive but not vertex-transitive or edge-transitive. If you think a little about it, face-transitivity is what you want in a die. It guarantees that all faces are equally likely. Vertex-transitivity doesn't really matter, and I don't understand the purists who think the lack of vertex-transitivity is a point against the d10.

That said, death to the d6. They're boring.

 

[PieAndDragon]

Yay. First vote

Die D6, too overused for me.

 

[JustaPlayer]

D6 for me too. It's just not special, heck it's used in Candy Land.

 

[Romnipotent]

d20, you dont need it in gurps and it only screws things up in D&D

 

[jinx crossbow]

d10, because U don't need them if U've got 10 fingers

 

[diaglo]

the only true d10 is a d20 labelled 0-9 twice.

 

[jinx crossbow]

the only true d10 is a d20 labelled 0-9 twice.

Hey Your reason is much better then mine. I'm convinced.

 

[MonsterMash]

the only true d10 is a d20 labelled 0-9 twice.

True, but I'm too bored with D6 to vote against D10 again so D6 must GO!!!

 

[Storminator]

D6 for me too. It's just not special, heck it's used in Candy Land.

You haven't played Candy Land recently, have you?

PS

 

[atom crash]

d8 has to go. The only thing I ever use it for is ranger or cleric hit points and crossbow damage.