Dice Questions?

[Zander]

I cant speak for the d7 as I dont know the designer ... but I know it does roll fair

I had a long chat with Lou Zocchi after that article about my collection appeared last year. Lou said that the d7 he used to sell is not, after all, fair; certainly not as fair as the d5.

Fairness, though, is a scale. As an absolute state for dice, it only exists in theory. If we take as our standard of "fair" so-called shop dice, the plastic d7 is unfair but the d5 is.

Of course, all this assumes a "fair" throw. In theory, an unfair die with an unfair throw results in a fair outcome if the two kinds of unfairness exactly counter each other. In theory anyway...

Zander
(Alexander @ The Dice Maniacs' Club)

 

[Kevin Cook]

NOTEWORTHY DICE ADDED IN JANUARY 2005

Gamescience Glow in the Dark D3 ... D5 ... D16 ... D24
Gamescience Prototype Colors for D3
Ankh D10's
Koplow 55mm D20's (Green and Blue)
Mint Condition HC Edwards Dice

THEMES ADDED IN JANUARY 2005

Palco Marketing
Glow in the Dark
Yahtzee
Gaming Industry Advertisement Dice

If you can think of a dice theme that I dont already have .. please update this thread

 

[Raloc]

Cool site Grats on your collection.

 

[Kevin Cook]

Cool site

Thanks ... I put a lot of work into it

 

[Raloc]

Putting up all those pics must take ages. Very very cool though

 

[Kevin Cook]

Putting up all those pics must take ages.

Actually its not that bad

As a software engineer ... I wrote a program that looks for files with dates later than the last update I made ... and collects them for upload

With a fast broadband connection ... it really doesnt take that long

 

[Raloc]

Ah, that's good thinking. I'm a developer too. In the process of writing a D&D chat client for my group.

I wish I had nearly as nice a dice collection as you though

 

[maddman75]

My sister is an artist, and wanted to make a sculpture of a dragon made out of gaming dice. She'd planned to get the dice by collecting extras from gamers. The project was abandoned when she realized that to a gamer, there is no such thing as extra dice.

 

[Raloc]

That would be cool, but yeah, no way she's getting any dice that way

 

[Kevin Cook]

My sister is an artist, and wanted to make a sculpture of a dragon made out of gaming dice. She'd planned to get the dice by collecting extras from gamers. The project was abandoned when she realized that to a gamer, there is no such thing as extra dice.

eBay ... there are Tons of junk dice there