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<blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 8172774" data-attributes="member: 11"><p>At Gen Con 2001, I bought one of those ridiculous bowls of dice you can get by the pound. I then ordered six "Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition" mugs and fill each with a random assortment of dice and gave one to each of my then current players.</p><p></p><p>I love odd dice and have found ways to work d30s and d16s into my old games with house rules. In another recent thread I talked about how I sometimes buy cheap old board games at flea markets and thrift stores if they have funky dice and throw the rest away!</p><p></p><p>Among my favorite or notorious dice are a set of black and grey d20s that my players dubbed "The PC Killers," a blue on white d8 that came from the old <em>Dune </em>board game, 2/3s of the set that came in my first Red Box, and the 6-sider that came from the 1980s Trump board game, where not only is the 6 replaced with a "T" but the die is <em>clearly</em> weighted towards that "T." A player who started feeling bad about using it because of this fact gifted it to me back in the early 00s and I started lending it out as DM when a player needed to roll a d6 for something important in-game. So kind of a built in "possible" fudge. These days, given the die's associations I have mixed feelings about using it at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="el-remmen, post: 8172774, member: 11"] At Gen Con 2001, I bought one of those ridiculous bowls of dice you can get by the pound. I then ordered six "Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition" mugs and fill each with a random assortment of dice and gave one to each of my then current players. I love odd dice and have found ways to work d30s and d16s into my old games with house rules. In another recent thread I talked about how I sometimes buy cheap old board games at flea markets and thrift stores if they have funky dice and throw the rest away! Among my favorite or notorious dice are a set of black and grey d20s that my players dubbed "The PC Killers," a blue on white d8 that came from the old [I]Dune [/I]board game, 2/3s of the set that came in my first Red Box, and the 6-sider that came from the 1980s Trump board game, where not only is the 6 replaced with a "T" but the die is [I]clearly[/I] weighted towards that "T." A player who started feeling bad about using it because of this fact gifted it to me back in the early 00s and I started lending it out as DM when a player needed to roll a d6 for something important in-game. So kind of a built in "possible" fudge. These days, given the die's associations I have mixed feelings about using it at all. [/QUOTE]
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