Maximum amount of dice needed?

[UltimaGabe]

So can a Brutal weapon, if the dice gods hate you.

Except that a Brutal weapon ignores the low roll- so there's no need to keep track of it. (If you roll a 1, there'd be no reason to pick up a different die- you'd just reroll the one that rolled poorly.) With a Vorpal weapon, though, you need to keep track of your exploding rolls.

 

[Herschel]

Duuuuuuuude, you really are too forgiving to dice that roll low too often.

 

[Turtlejay]

Even with larger than medium characters, the most dice a weapon has is 2 (d4, d6, d8). The highest [w] power I can think of is the last rage strike, which is 9[w]. So far, we have 18 dice there. If you use Windrise Ports to get Warlock and Ranger, you can get 3 die each from those, for a new total of 24.

AFAIK you can't charge or anything with rage strike, so charging item die are out. My epic level knowledge is sparse, so I don't know about other things that add dice after the first 24, but I'm sure you could do more.

Jay

 

[eriktheguy]

When I DM I use two d20's and that's it. For damage I just make up random numbers in my head within the damage range (don't tell my players!) and for large groups of minions attacking I roll 2 or 3 dice and duplicate/triplicate the results.

 

[MrBeens]

When I DM I use two d20's and that's it. For damage I just make up random numbers in my head within the damage range (don't tell my players!) and for large groups of minions attacking I roll 2 or 3 dice and duplicate/triplicate the results.

Err, OK.

As for the OP, there is no requirement to roll all the dice at the same time. 1 set of dice each is ample (although I am of the school of thought that you can never have enough dice - I have at least 7 sets in my dice box, and many more at home )

 

[Noumenon]

For damage I just make up random numbers in my head within the damage range (don't tell my players!)

They would know you weren't rolling 8d6 if they were there in person, so are you playing online?

 

[Colmarr]

The highest [w] power I can think of is the last rage strike, which is 9[w]

I could have sworn there was a 10[W] fighter power in the PHB1. I remember drooling over it...