How many dice do you put out?

[Starglim]

Not a random grab, but not a full set either. In the case of my longsword and longbow-armed ranger I mostly have two dice out on the table, a d20 and a d8.

 

[Davelozzi]

I usually put out three sets+ for myself (two behind the screen and one near the players), plus at least one set plus+ per layer, except for one or two players that bring their own.

 

[DragonLancer]

I use:

5D4 (for magic missiles).
4D6 (stat generation).
1D8.
2D10 (ten and a unit).
1D12.
1D20.

 

[Nebulous]

i keep a glass bowl full of dice for our games. i usually host, and these are dice that have accumulated over the years, although ALL the players bring their own dice and rarely use mine unless we need a bunch of 6's. Now, i do have a special giant DM die that only i use. Anyone else is loathe to even touch the thing. It has DM cooties.

 

[jmucchiello]

I have a medium Paladin's bag (he still around?) full of my various polyhedral sets since I first bought dice. Must be 10-15 sets in there, but strays collected over the years. I usually only pull out all the d4s and d6s, 4-5 d8s (cure critical wounds), a couple d10s, 1d12 (poor lonely d12s), and handful of d20s depending on how many iterative attacks I have. When I DM I carry a cube of 36d6s (from my HERO playing days) for when someone fails that fort save against disintegrate.

 

[Lord Ipplepop]

My roommates seem to have dice fetishes. All of the adults have their own dice (I even keep mnine in a purple Crown Royal bag to feed my "Old-School desires ). THe kids, as a rule, don't have any- not that it matters, because every week, it seems, my roommates buy another couple of sets of dice.
Everyone at the table has their own dice, plus we have so many extras that it isn't that hard to find anything extra you might need.

 

[Wyrm Pilot]

A pound or more. What can I say? I like dice.

Cheers,
Wyrm Pilot
____________________

Wyatt: "I thought you said gambling is an honest profession."
Doc: "I said poker is an honest profession."

 

[The Thayan Menace]

Polyhedral Possessiveness

I put out at least a pound ... but they're not for "everyone". They are mine.

-Samir Asad (DM)

 

[werk]

I have two sets that I use, one red with white, the other red with black, and, of course, my lucky d20 that I've had forever (and that's a mighty long time). People always accuse me that it is unbalanced or fixed because it has a paint filled crack that runs through it (from the mfg), but after a few rolls, they agree that it is still random...I swear!

I also put out the Big Bowl of Dice^TM which has more than enough dice for everyone else to use if needed...benefits of being a veteran gamer.

 

[Jedi_Solo]

My dice bag has a few complete sets. What I put on the table depends on the character.

Currently, for my Bard, it is as follows:
5d4 (Wand of Magic Missiles)
4d6 (Not sure why 4 - but there are multiple reasons for 3)
3d8 (Cure Serious Wounds)
2d10 (Percentile)
1d12 (Boy Scout Motto: Be Prepared)
1d20 (Of course)