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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Siberys" data-source="post: 4030213" data-attributes="member: 30619">basically, a platonic solid is a polyhedron where each face is the same shape, and on each point on the polyhedron a number of shapes meet.d4 - tetrahedron - equilateral triangle - three faces meet at each point.d6 - cube - square - three faces meet at each point.d8 - octahedron - equilateral triangle - four faces meet at each point.d12 - dodecahedron - equilateral pentagon - three faces meet at each point.d20 - icosahedron - equilateral triangle - five faces meet at each point.Non-platonic solids, at least when talking about dice, usually have identically shaped faces, but irregular numbers of faces meet at each point. Take a d30, for example. Each face is a parallelogram, but at some points, 3 faces meet, where as at others, 5 do. This VERY subtly messes with the probability to get a fair roll - it's very easy to choose whether you want an even or odd number on a d10, and actually get it. You just hold it with that side of the shape facing up.There are, of course, dice with differently shaped faces - d6s made of six octagons with parallelograms at the corners, or those spindle-shaped d3s or d5s or d7s, etc.Anyways, I'm sure most of you already knew this. I just like ranting about stuff I know about.To the point, though, I agree. replace the d10 with the d12. My only question, though, is how to do d100? 9d12-8 does give a range of 1-100... otherwise, we'd need to keep the d10s for the purpose of percentiles, or just get rid of percentile rolls.</blockquote>

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