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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 2422327" data-attributes="member: 32740">Any die not sitting FLAT is cocked and by rights makes the roll void (at least by GAMBLING rules), but generally if it's reasonably readable, that is if it's somewhat flat and whatever it's leaning against or tilted on were removed the die would still be flat, most people I know would simply read it as such and move on.  The only time it would really become an issue is if the roll were immediately and obviously disastrous.  In that case it becomes an "easy out" to simply declare it a cocked die and reroll. Of course there's also been those times when a die is well and truly "unreadable" because it's cocked at far too rakish an angle but a player wants to try and read it favorably, in which case as the DM I have needed to step in and declare it officially cocked and require it to be rerolled. As for other rules I only really have one of convenience - keep it on the table and don't be knocking over miniatures and so forth as you roll.  You don't need to hold your dice 5' above the table and drop them but the dice do need to fall a bit and ROLL.  Oh, and no talking while you're rolling! That last one is a special rule that had to be made once in a 1E game to cover a player who when his turn came up would simply rattle his dice in hand, talk on and on and on about a book he'd just read, the weather, what the odds were of his actually hitting every given opponent on the table, how much he liked his paladin character although he might be cooler if he used a Maul of the Titans because then he could use it to just whack open doors and..."MARK!  JUST ROLL YOUR FRIGGIN' ATTACKS!"  :\</blockquote>

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