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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7593440" data-attributes="member: 6704184"><p>The idea of the DM "allowing" me to buy dice from wherever I want is laughably foreign to me. </p><p></p><p>If a DM told me they had "rules" about what dice are allowed, excepting an AL table where the DM had had to deal with dice cheaters recently, I'd laugh and say no. I'm going to use the dice I like to use to play DnD. </p><p></p><p>As for how much I personally care about balance in my personal dice (the only context in which I believe I have any voice, much less vote, in dice selection), I'm not terribly worried about it. If I were to notice that a single die tends to have a die result grouping that seems too far out of norm to not weird the game results, I'd probably retire that die. Otherwise, I don't think I could ever possibly care. </p><p></p><p>This holds for when I'm playing, or running games. Any normal dice will result in throws that are withing a reasonable band of results over any normal number of rolls. As Umbran said, we aren't likely to see any actual difference in play, so I just don't ever think about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 7593440, member: 6704184"] The idea of the DM "allowing" me to buy dice from wherever I want is laughably foreign to me. If a DM told me they had "rules" about what dice are allowed, excepting an AL table where the DM had had to deal with dice cheaters recently, I'd laugh and say no. I'm going to use the dice I like to use to play DnD. As for how much I personally care about balance in my personal dice (the only context in which I believe I have any voice, much less vote, in dice selection), I'm not terribly worried about it. If I were to notice that a single die tends to have a die result grouping that seems too far out of norm to not weird the game results, I'd probably retire that die. Otherwise, I don't think I could ever possibly care. This holds for when I'm playing, or running games. Any normal dice will result in throws that are withing a reasonable band of results over any normal number of rolls. As Umbran said, we aren't likely to see any actual difference in play, so I just don't ever think about it. [/QUOTE]
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