How many dice do you carry?

[Blue]

Playing a D&D-like game I have an old slide-lock Betamax hardcase container that has my dice and some mechanical pencils. Popping it open, it has:

• What would make about four full sets, but not matched.
• Roughly extra ~10 d6s and ~4d8, likely for spell damage.
• Specialty dice: my original 1980s Torg d20, my 13th Age Icon-labelled d12 (any of which could be the 13th, The Prince of Shadows), two non-symmetrical fair (likely) ten-sided dice made by a mathematician friend of mine for a talk he made about dice shape and fairness, some blank d6s and d20, and my grandfather's wooden d6.

 

[Whisper-Kitten]

I have two peanut butter jars filled with them.

 

[Deset Gled]

My "con bag" has two each of d20, d12, d8, and d4, plus a percentile set of d10s (one standard, one with 10s on it), and at least 3 d6. Enough to have a full set and share a little if needed.

 

[Maenalis]

Every dice I own except ones which are part of a boardgame or MtG life counter dice.


So 2 sets of the typical d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20 and a small box of d6 one can use for counters.

Same here, but I do own a third set which I don't carry with me (and I have quite a few more d6s in reserve).

 

[Voadam]

For D&D, generally one set of the various types plus a small tube of 6 d6s was my go to.

For White Wolf just my set of d10s, its been a few years I am not sure where those are now, I think it is a set of 10 d10?

For the last couple of years I have not been bringing anything, the host has a couple goblets of dice at the game table and I use those. In our prior DCC game the DM had the special dice (d16s, d24s, etc.) and shared them at the table, I did not own any of those. If one of those wasn't available I did my makeshift double rolling (first die odd is the lower half of the range, even is the higher half of the range then a d8 for the d16 or a d12 for the 24). I even leave my character sheet there now too. Very freeing to just show up with no stuff and jump into gaming.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

I typically carry 48 dice, including 5d20, 5d12, 6d10, 2d10 percentile, 8d8, 13d6, 8d4, and 1d3, which I ritually arrange by size in front of me as I wait for the game to start (and then usually put several back in the bag).

I don't believe in matching sets, mine are color coded by size, and I tended to just get as many of particular types as I needed for frequently cast spells in D&D. Then I got 1 or 2 of alternate colors for each size for when I need to distinguish specific dice being rolled from others, then I lost some of the color coded ones and got more than I needed for replacements in anticipation of further attrition.

And while it may seem to some like a ridiculous amount of dice I frequently use them to represent enemies on battlemaps as well as as actual dice, and once that's happening I sometimes still struggle to have enough of the size I need to do things efficiently.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

If I’m not hosting, I grab one of my overfull felt bags that contain more sets than I actually know.

 

[Meech17]

I usually just take two sets.

If I'm DMing and I need a bunch of D6 or something, I like to steal them from the players, so I get to kill them with their own dice. I especially enjoy pointing out if their die they contributed to the pool rolled especially high.

"Oh Hannah.. Your D6 did six points of damage to you.. Poor thing is out for blood today. Maybe you should be nicer to it."

Ran crows the other night, and I had a sneaking suspicion that none of my player would come prepared (I was mostly correct. 1/3 players brought dice. None brought pencils.) so I took a bunch of D6 and each matched D100 set I own, which ended up being about 10 sets, plus the regular two full dice sets I normally run with.

 

[Marc17]

Depends on what game we are playing. Still, I shoot for more than I think I need. I also have a dice pouch and if I just grab that, it probably has two sets of dice plus extra d10s and d6s. Except for DCC, then I have all the odd dice in a box and pull them out when needed.

 

[dbolack]

By carry, I mean carry to a game session, not how many you own. Like most of us, I own a lot of dice. But when I go to a game session, I obviously don't bring them all.

If I'm GMing, I probably bring 3-4 sets with extra d6s--probably 8d6 in total.
If I'm a player, I bring 2 sets, usually color-coordinated with the PC I'm playing (like my silver/blue dice when I play a paladin, or my green jewel dice for my druid, or my Moldvay basic set when I play OSR or AD&D). I will have 4d6, and if I'm playing a caster, 3d8 as well. If I get to higher levels as a caster, I'll probably add some more dice depending on which spells I typically use. Fireball means 8d6 for example.