Do YOU have "personal" dice?

[Salad Shooter]

I'm glad I'm not the only one with massive dice superstitions...people look at me funny occasionally because I rarely put down my mainstay d20...or when I talk to my dice to coax a good roll out of them...or something like that...

 

[RuminDange]

dice superstitions, yeap my group has it.
Personally I have about 6 complete sets with around 25d6 extra for the big rolls. I have 2 d20's that I use exclusively when I play (very very rarely) and DM. My primary one is a metallic blue with white numbers that I have had for over 12 years....referred to as "Metallic"... and the players hate that one. If you just test roll it, it rolls random, but when the rolling in game against the players this die loves the 18+. I've lost count the number of times it has rolled 3 or more 20's back to back in front of the players. I've had them threaten it with a hammer before when the BBEG is slicing up their characters.
The other die is a black and gold d20 referred to as "Black Death" and it lives up to it's name. I don't use it much but when I do characters start dropping, as it matches Metallic almost exactly in the way it rolls. The other 4 sets of dice I loan out if need be, but no one uses my 2 sets and they know not to touch them.

My wife, a new gamer that started almost 4 years ago when we were dating, has a set and she is much more into the superstition, she has even jumped up and caught her dice in mid-air when another grabbed it and rolled it cause they didn't want to dig out their dice just yet. That was pretty funny both in her reaction time and the other player's face at her doing that.

The other players in the group have the same kind of setup with favorite dice but a few are not so attached to them. I even seen one player set his d20 up on a window ledge overlooking the gaming table after it rolled too many 1's to punish it while he took to using his back up set.

The dice superstitions are alive and well in my group!

RD

 

[Wombat]

I have The Magic Dice.

I was given a small wooden box by my first girlfriend about 1979-80 (she worked RenFaire in northern California) and since that day have keep exactly the same dice and knickknacks in it.

Contents:

2D20, each number 0-9 twice (primary Blue and Red)
1D12 (lavender)
1D8 (sort of a mossy green)
1D4 with cut-off points, read-around-bottom variety (same Blue as D20)
4D6 (2 larger brown "woodgrain", 2 small, 1 of which is sky blue, the other is a heavily beaten black)
3d6 Rune Dice (got at the first DunDraCon I went to)
1 ancient .22-long round
1 blue jasper bead
3 broken earrings (2 blue-gold in a swirling triskele Mon pattern, 1 red-gold-blue enamel elephant)
1 small, cheap crystal

No one touches The Magic Dice, but me

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

I've got a little plastic box of violet dice, but I'd like more d20s, just in case any are loaded. (This way, by switching from d20 to d20, I can keep "loading" issues to a minimum.)

Because of all the newbies I play with, I have to loan out the dice once in a while. I don't do that when I'm DMing though.

I've got a box of 36 black d6s (I've had to use the whole box more than once ... new disintegrate) which keeps falling open

I've yet to lose one, though.

 

[Henry]

I don't have an untouchable set, and loan out my dice pool fairly regularly. My luck usually isn't in the dice, it's in me, and how I roll. If I'm hot one day, I'm usually consistently hot, and if cold, consistently cold, no matter how I change dice. Usually I just change up the WAY I'm rolling, and it tends to break the streak a bit.

The most amusing thing in the world I ever saw was an avowed atheist, a man who stated soundly that he believed there was no such thing as the divine, or even luck, talking to his dice asking for good numbers, and later talking about how his dice hated him. Gamer supersition affects everyone sooner or later, no matter the creed.

 

[Neo]

I have to admit I do have a set that as a GM I use all the time, I have lots of dice, but one set my best friend of years ago bought me and the dice predominantly roll either real high or real low.

Some folks say thats player superstition but dice "Can" roll a certain way more often than others, variations in size, weight, slightly flattened edges et.c. all have a bearing in how the dice comes to a rest.

 

[Kesh]

Most of my dice are up for grabs, so long as I get them back at the end of the session.

However, I do have this set of matching d6's in their own plastic box. Those are my Shadowrun dice. Nothing better than lobbing 12d6 across the table to stage damage upwards...

 

[Majere]

Im not dice supersticious, but our group has a pair of dice nabbers , so I can get defensive.

Our DM owns no dice and has sticky fingers.. I usually find that an hour into a session all my dice have worked their way behind his screen, unless I deploy advanced warning,marking and detection (WMD) tactics. Or by shouting at the DM to give them back.

The second player owns "black hole" the universal graveyard of all dice, the mother of all dice bags. All dice end up in BlackHole, its just a matter of time. We speculate that its a bag of endless dice that the play picked up many years ago in a long forgotten campeign. To this day we have never seen its bottom.

I own 8 crappy Warhammer d'6s and one complete set or mottled die, with two extra d20s. There used to be more.. but they migrated while I wasnt watching.

Majere

 

[sircaren]

I was just wondering if anyone else was like me, and had a set of dice that no one else was allowed to touch, and had another specifically for others to use if they need? I've noticed a few others do it, I was just wondering if anyone else was as anal as me about it (Touch my dice, yer liable to lose an arm). So? What about YOUR dice?

No, but I do have "DM Dice" and "Player Dice".

 

[wolff96]

I willingly share all of my dice but one set. The clear gray set of razor dice from Chessex are MINE. They pretty much all roll incredibly well. Unless they're in a bad mood. Fortunately, that's infrequent.

I guess my only real dice superstition is that I like them all to show a "1" when not in use. That's just a touch of OCD, though, not really a superstition.