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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9431847" data-attributes="member: 7023840">For once, I am not going to bore you with a long essay. I was recently in<a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/expanding-on-game-design-learning-from-game-designers.706054/" target="_blank"> the excellent thread about learning from game designers</a> started by [USER=7037141]@Art Waring[/USER] (I highly recommend you check it out!), and it caused me to revisit an earlier series I had started about the physical nature of TTRPGs, and an examination of how the use of dice (and dice mechanics) influences play. However, I never actually finished the series! If you're curious (aka, a masochist), you can find the 2 1/2 posts in the aborted series here-<a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/what-does-the-choice-of-dice-mean-for-the-rpg.695578/" target="_blank">What Does the Choice of Dice Mean for the RPG?</a><a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/games-people-play-looking-at-the-gaming-aspects-of-d-d.697030/" target="_blank">Games People Play: Looking at the Gaming Aspects of D&D</a><a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/why-we-love-dice-in-our-rpgs-part-2.697165/" target="_blank">Why We Love Dice in Our RPGs (Part 2)</a>Anyway, while reading back on those, I saw the following astute comment from [USER=7035894]@Clint_L[/USER] which I never followed up on:To your point about the tactile and other pleasures of dice...hmmm. Hard to separate nature and nurture in this regard. My first instinct is to talk about collectibility, sensation, etc. but I have been conditioned to value particular forms of these things. I notice that when I play with new students who have no experience of D&D they are absolutely fine with rolling on DnDBeyond (plus it does the math for them). I offer to lend them dice, and about half are not interested. I don't think there is necessarily anything inherent to the human species that makes physical dice objectively more attractive than virtual dice, but I would love to see a study.And I was wondering about that! I can't imagine playing D&D (or other TTRGPs) without my dice. It is so foundational, to me, that I have to use them. Now, if I'm playing PbP, I will use coyotecode to roll because that's transparent, but that's just for on-line play. So I wanted to put Clint_L's observation out to the EnWorld public in two ways. First, a poll! The poll is going to ask you if you have to use dice when you're playing in person.Second, the comments. I know that people will expound on the idea, and further clarify what they've seen others do, and how playing on-line might change what they prefer, so use the comments for that. Have at it! How important are the DICE to your in-person D&D (and other TTRPGs, assuming you're not playing a diceless RPG or Dread or the like) experience?</blockquote>

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