D&D General On how many dice we use

[JEB]

At home, I have a big bag of dice (far more than I need, to include oddball dice I never use), and sometimes pour the whole pile out, but often select a set to use in a particular session for a particular character (though generally not the same set every time).

When I gamed at stores or conventions, though, I usually had one specific set of dice I brought along for that purpose, in its original container. I also associated specific sets with specific characters (except for one-offs).

 

[loverdrive]

My wife made me a d20 shaped leather bag full of dice that I never use, and I feel guilty every time I look at it.

 

[ccs]

As the DM I have 3 sets + a handful of extra misc d6.
One is a sparkly R/W/B set I found at a local shop & just liked the look of.
The other two are bight yellow with black #s. Perfectly readable at a glance - wich is important as I roll them in the open & WANT my players to be able to see them (if they care).

As a player?
One set per character + a handful of misc dice as needed per spells, + my original D20 (I'll use it as long as I play these games & then I'll be buried with it.)
Some of my characters have color coded dice sets. Especially if it's a game where I'm paying two characters. That way I can roll all dice required & not get them mixed up. And those dice stay assigned to the character even if I use the PC in some other game later.
If not color coded to a character then it's just misc dice from the Crown Royal bag.

 

[Undrave]

I hve a lot of dice, and generally I play about 3 sets of dice fr one character, with colors I feel are matching the character. Then I have a couple extra d20s laying about just in case.

 

[CleverNickName]

I'm also very...particular about the physical dice that I use. I want need my d6 to have pips, not numbers. So I usually end up having to buy a brick of 12 six-siders just to get four with pips. Which results in 9 orphaned dice per set.

 

[Jack Daniel]

Depends. If I'm starting a new campaign, I'll usually bust out the casino d6s and GameScience Jumbos (because I want everybody around the table to clearly see every number that I roll):

Once a campaign gets rolling and I find that I need more dice (particularly handfuls of d6s for monster hp and spell damage), I'll switch over to my GameScience 16mm set:

But for short pickup games, I usually just grab an old d20 and 2d6 and roll old-school.

 

[Lanefan]

As a player I have a box - with a bag inside it that my wife custom-made for me - of dice that I just leave at the DM's place. There's probably 50+ in there, all in two colours so I know which are mine (except one or two prisoners of war collected over the years: you throw a die at me, it's mine. )

As a DM I have a small-ish box of maybe 30-40 dice* as everyday rollers plus a bigger box of another 100+ dice for when either I need a whole bunch for something or when one too many of the everyday rollers has disappeared underneath some piece of furniture.

* - over half of which are d6s, as that's what I use for initiative; and when rolling separarte initiatives for each attack of several multi-attack monsters even that's sometimes not enough.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I have your dice.

Next time, count them before you leave the table.

 

[Sacrosanct]

When I game in person (when I gamed in person), I use as set that matches the theme of the PC. A druid, I'll use my green set. A paladin? White set.

however, I also use my original set I got in 1981 with those other dice. Along with a pair of jade d6s I got in Alaska in 1982 or so. Those are my favorites.

 

[Musing Mage]

I certainly am guilty of owning more dice than I need... particularly novelty dice.

As DM I generally keep about 4-5 sets handy at any given time, especially extra d6s. As a player I only have 1 or 2 sets with me.

Playing online means using online dice rollers... but in-person, I MUST. HAVE. THE. REAL. THING.