el-remmen
Moderator Emeritus
Depends on how far upstate. Central NY/Southern tier?Was it someplace in upstate NY...
D&D General Do you have any table rules regarding die rolls?
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el-remmen
Moderator Emeritus
Not in my experience; dice got cocked against pencils and pens, within the spines of books, on a napkin by the chips, etc. . . No one in my current F2F group uses a dice tray. Me and one other person use dice towers, but his is made out of his son's LEGO and spills the die out onto the table anyway.
Cordwainer Fish
Imp. Int. Scout Svc. (Dishon. Ret.)
In my high-school-to-college group, if one of your dice was cocked you had to reroll them both. (We very nearly only played 2d6 games.)
DND_Reborn
The High Aldwin
IT WAS YOU!!!Depends on how far upstate. Central NY/Southern tier?
aco175
Legend
The biggest problem was when players would roll and the dice would land all over the minis and such. Bought my father a dice tray and he still manages to get 25% of the dice the jump out and scatter, but mostly on his papers. My son and I can share a silent laugh after the third or fourth time.
Used to have more problems with players fudging rolls when we were teens, but today we all trust each other. I try to let the players roll as many dice as they can. Some is to speed up combat like having them roll damage against themselves. If I use lots of bad guys, I even have them roll against another PC to hit, but generally I do that part.
Used to have more problems with players fudging rolls when we were teens, but today we all trust each other. I try to let the players roll as many dice as they can. Some is to speed up combat like having them roll damage against themselves. If I use lots of bad guys, I even have them roll against another PC to hit, but generally I do that part.
AtomicPope
Hero
Everyone rolls in the open and leaves their dice untouched.
No one rolls another for another person, except with expressed permission.
No botting other people's characters. If you miss a session or you're late and we start without you, then something bad happens. Usually you're pimped out as a sex slave and everyone rolls 3d6 and gains that many gold pieces, while the missing PC is off getting Cure Disease cast on them (hence missing the session). Also, we make fun of you.
If you're on a hot streak I will "up the ante." Something like, "roll another nat '20' and you'll kill the Giant instantly, all remaining monsters will run in terror." If you fail, I express my disappointment.
As a DM, I play "no gotchas", and will ask a player if they're sure they want to do that. Something I know from years of gaming is if it seems the players missed something, they probably have. It doesn't hurt to get clarification.
No one rolls another for another person, except with expressed permission.
No botting other people's characters. If you miss a session or you're late and we start without you, then something bad happens. Usually you're pimped out as a sex slave and everyone rolls 3d6 and gains that many gold pieces, while the missing PC is off getting Cure Disease cast on them (hence missing the session). Also, we make fun of you.
If you're on a hot streak I will "up the ante." Something like, "roll another nat '20' and you'll kill the Giant instantly, all remaining monsters will run in terror." If you fail, I express my disappointment.
As a DM, I play "no gotchas", and will ask a player if they're sure they want to do that. Something I know from years of gaming is if it seems the players missed something, they probably have. It doesn't hurt to get clarification.
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
1. All rolls have to be in front of the group.
2. You have to be consistent. Meaning that if you tell us that roll on a particular book, there's no deciding to take the natural 20 that time it rolls off the book. You can change your particular taboo, but you need to tell the group before game play begins.
2. You have to be consistent. Meaning that if you tell us that roll on a particular book, there's no deciding to take the natural 20 that time it rolls off the book. You can change your particular taboo, but you need to tell the group before game play begins.
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing
Dice etiquette at my table:
- All rolls are witnessed, even my own.
- Cocked dice are always rerolled
- Dice that don't land on the table are rerolled.
- "Rolling completes the action." Once the die is rolled it's too late for the Help action, the Guidance cantrip, etc. Ask for help before rolling, not after.
- We always roll hit points, even at 1st level (but we reroll 1s when rolling hp)
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Charlaquin
Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
Yeah, if it’s like stuck in a crevice or propped up against some kind of obstruction or whatever, for sure,
MNblockhead
A Title Much Cooler Than Anything on the Old Site
I try to arrange my gaming group and environment so I don't need many rules. The only that come to mind for the campaigns I run:
1. Everyone rolls in the open. Even the DM.
2. No extra small or highly stylized dice that are hard for other players to read.
3. On the floor is not in the open. Pick it up and roll again.
In terms for setup, to avoid many of the problems other talk about:
For in-person games I have a used conference table I bought from an ad on Craigslist, from a company that was closing an office. I don't worry about coasters, dice trays, heavy metal dice, etc.
The map area is a verticle TV in a Collabrewate case. I connect it to my laptop for digital maps, or put the Chessex battlemap, titles, terrain, on top of it if going analog. I don't have to worry about dice knocking over terrain or miniatures. Also don't have to worry about spells ruining dungeon tiles or paper craft items.
The one issue we do have sometimes is dice going off the table, but because of how my gaming area is, more times then not that means it is going under the freezer, a counter, or my dog grabs it. It is often a huge hassle to retrieve a die the goes onto the floor so the issue becomes self correcting as the players are careful when rolling their dice so they don't have to get on their hands and knees to fish it out of somewhere inconvenient or wait for my dog to pass it in a day or two.
1. Everyone rolls in the open. Even the DM.
2. No extra small or highly stylized dice that are hard for other players to read.
3. On the floor is not in the open. Pick it up and roll again.
In terms for setup, to avoid many of the problems other talk about:
For in-person games I have a used conference table I bought from an ad on Craigslist, from a company that was closing an office. I don't worry about coasters, dice trays, heavy metal dice, etc.
The map area is a verticle TV in a Collabrewate case. I connect it to my laptop for digital maps, or put the Chessex battlemap, titles, terrain, on top of it if going analog. I don't have to worry about dice knocking over terrain or miniatures. Also don't have to worry about spells ruining dungeon tiles or paper craft items.
The one issue we do have sometimes is dice going off the table, but because of how my gaming area is, more times then not that means it is going under the freezer, a counter, or my dog grabs it. It is often a huge hassle to retrieve a die the goes onto the floor so the issue becomes self correcting as the players are careful when rolling their dice so they don't have to get on their hands and knees to fish it out of somewhere inconvenient or wait for my dog to pass it in a day or two.
beancounter
(I/Me/Mine)
You actually have to roll the dice.
I had a fellow player who would drop his dice without it rolling. He strangely got high results almost every time...
I had a fellow player who would drop his dice without it rolling. He strangely got high results almost every time...
jmartkdr2
Hero
If you can't hit the table, you can't hit the orc.
el-remmen
Moderator Emeritus
This and Yora's table rule seem really harsh! I mean, if you had someone who was regularly throwing the dice around the room, I'd get wanting to curb their behavior, but everyone is occasionally clumsy or some other factor (like a weird ricochet) can mess with a clean roll. Not sure penalizing someone for that without that potential context is in the spirit of sportsmanship (while someone who throws their dice around is also not being very sporting).
el-remmen
Moderator Emeritus
Huh. Just goes to show how experiences differ. Except for a handful of times when people were being purposefully obnoxious in high school or college, every single die that has ended up on the floor since then has been completely unintentional and not because the person was throwing dice recklessly.
Ralif Redhammer
Legend
In my experience, if a completely hypothetical person says "the rest of the house is clean, I don't need to clean those dust bunnies under the couch for company, no one's going to see it," there is a 100% chance that somehow a rolled die will end up precisely there.
I also do "it's a miss if it rolls off the table" - though I usually start with a warning. I've had too much "hyper-die-rolling" that our group has actually coined a term for it. People getting up, searching for lost dice, disrupting the game, making people get off their seats, searching under furniture and bookcases, taking three times as long to make a die roll because they can't hit the table. It's rude, and if you can't control yourself, you miss and we move on.
jgsugden
Legend
1.) If you know what the result was, use it. If not, reroll.
2.) Don't cheat.
3.) Don't use dice that damage my table.
If I feel a player is cheating, I passively let them know I'm aware. It if persists, I talk to them about it. If they continue to cheat, we talk about options, which start with continuing to cheat and leaving the group.
I've never needed more than those little bits.
2.) Don't cheat.
3.) Don't use dice that damage my table.
If I feel a player is cheating, I passively let them know I'm aware. It if persists, I talk to them about it. If they continue to cheat, we talk about options, which start with continuing to cheat and leaving the group.
I've never needed more than those little bits.
DeviousQuail
Hero
We reroll all dice that fall off the table and dice that land cocked.
Whoever is DMing can choose how they wish to roll (in the open, secret, secret with fudge sauce, etc).
We all know what is and isn't cheating when rolling dice. We've never had to spell it out besides rolls off the table and landing cocked. The benefit of a group that has gamed together for a while.
When playing on Roll20 the rule is you accept the first appropriate roll. So if you forget to turn off advantage for a roll you get to reroll in the way you were supposed to. If you type in 1d6+4 and it should've been 1d8+4 you reroll. But if you type in 1d8+3 when you meant to roll 1d8+4 we just add or subtract the appropriate amount as the random aspect has already been handled.
Whoever is DMing can choose how they wish to roll (in the open, secret, secret with fudge sauce, etc).
We all know what is and isn't cheating when rolling dice. We've never had to spell it out besides rolls off the table and landing cocked. The benefit of a group that has gamed together for a while.
When playing on Roll20 the rule is you accept the first appropriate roll. So if you forget to turn off advantage for a roll you get to reroll in the way you were supposed to. If you type in 1d6+4 and it should've been 1d8+4 you reroll. But if you type in 1d8+3 when you meant to roll 1d8+4 we just add or subtract the appropriate amount as the random aspect has already been handled.
