d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20. Have any other numbered dice ever been made?

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I was just wondering if anybody's made dice of different numbers.

I'm not sure, but I thought I saw a d30 once?

Also, I know I've seen a novelty d100. Yep, that's right, 100 sides! -- not 2 d10.

The GURPS game could do with a d16 which is numbered from 3-18 to simulate rolling 3d6 (I hate adding up those 3d6!).

 

[MerricB]

d100s are quite common.

I've seen d30s before.

There are also a few of weirder numbers...

Cheers!

 

[Len]

There are also a few of weirder numbers...

d3, d5, d7 at least. And you've probably got some d2's in your pocket!

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

d1s are fairly common, if pointless for gaming.

 

[jester47]

a sixteen sided die labeled from 3-18 would not work. It would be linear. Your chance of rolling a nine would be the same as rolling an 18. The whole idea behind random numbers generation in roleplaying is to simulate curves of statistical probability. To simulate this you need multiple dice.

Aaron.

 

[Codex]

A friend of mine recently bought a d30 and a d16 via the internet. Apparently the company did all kinds of dice.

He used them with The Window, adding a couple of rungs to the ladder.

Another friend has been using Fudge dice in an unusual way: he counts the number of lines on each side, so that instead of reading "+ + - +" as "+2" he reads it as "7". (Fudge dice, aka "dF," are six-sided dice with 2 sides blank, 2 sides with a + and 2 sides with a -).

I'd heard that d100s are notoriously annoying to use (they take forever to stop rolling and tend to be a bit unreliably weighted.

Of course many percentile dice come in pairs of d10s: one is numbered 1, 2, 3, etc and the other is numbered 10, 20, 30, etc.

 

[Desdichado]

I bought my d30s for The Window too, online from Chessex. Still haven't seen another game that uses them, unfortunately.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

I own a d5 & d7 from GameScience.Check out www.advancinghordes.com for lots of unusual dice. Here are a few for you to take a look at:

d5
d7
d16
d24
d30

 

[milotha]

I've seen a d30 and a d100. I've also seen die that were location hit die as d8s.

 

[Henry]

If Zander (Alexander Simkin) still posts here, ask him about his dice collection if you see him. If there's anyone who knows what dice exist, it's him.

I have a d3 (d6 numbered twice), and I even have an odd 2-5 dice (2,3,3,4,4,5) that I've never figured out what game it's for. And if I REALLY want to scare my players I bring out my backgammon dice (it's a bunch of d6's that are numbered 2,4,8,16,32,64 - I threaten to use them with my fireballs and lightning bolts...)