Finding d16s (was: How Balanced are d16s?)

[el-remmen]

d16s are on their way!!

 

[Odhanan]

Looking at all these neat dice made me order some. "OOOOH! SHINY!"

Be sure to tell us how the d16 works for you, el-remmen!

 

[Lanefan]

The dice come in clear crystal because people for some reason tend to want them in clear crystal.

Advancing Hordes will ink the crystal ones for you so you can use them (readably) right away.

Lanefan

 

[Gentlegamer]

I have seen them for sale at game shops and at conventions - and never thought of them as more than a novelty - but now I am thinking they might work for a house rule of mine (knockdown) - so anyone here have them/use them?

Should I bother? Or they just novelties as I always thought?

I am not looking for some kind of scientific study - just your general experience with how well they roll.

Thanks.

A d16 can be rolled with a d8 and a d6, a result of 4-6 adds 8 to the d8 roll.

 

[Aus_Snow]

Any particular technical difficulty with making a d17 or a d19, or is it just that nobody has bothered?

Beats me, d00d.

Hopefully someone *will* bother, just so I can do the crazy thing of having d's all the way to 20. So I can play d's20! Woohoo.

I might well get myself some 7s, 9s, 11s, 14s and 16s though. For now.

 

[Odhanan]

I've never seen d9 and d11, I must say. Someone's got pics to show us?

 

[Zander]

Any particular technical difficulty with making a d17 or a d19, or is it just that nobody has bothered?

Jason Huff and I invented a fair d15 which Jason made for me out of aluminium. Jason is a professional machinist, and a highly skilled one at that, and he said that is was difficult to make. I asked him if he would make me a d17 and d19 based on the same design principle but he declined on the grounds that it would simply be too much work. That's not to say that he couldn't do them just that they would take more time than he could devote to them.

 

[Zander]

I've never seen d9 and d11, I must say. Someone's got pics to show us?

Go here and scroll down. Among others, you'll see the d9 and d11 that Jason Huff and I invented, and which Jason made.

 

[el-remmen]

So they arrived and are currently in the dice bag getting to know the other dice and absorbing the good mojo.

 

[Tarodin]

For anyone still looking for an opaque D16, there are Black and Red ones available now at http://www.advancinghordes.com/index.php/cPath/2_61_13