D&D 5E The 5E Dice Aesthetic

[trancejeremy]

Perhaps. But when you say, " Roll 1d8 and divide by two, round up, then add modifiers, " the obvious reply is going to be, " Why did you not just tell me to bring my d4 then? " And on the other hand, it is not obvious when you say, " Roll 3d4, " that someone might reasonably complain, " Why did not not just tell me to bring a d12? "

But 3d4 isn't 1-12. In order to get 1-12 from a d4, you'd also need to roll another die that is divisible by 3, like a d6

if the d6 is 1-2, then the d4 would be 1-4. If the d6 is 3-4, the d4 would be 5-8, and if the d6 is 5-6, the d4 roll would be 9-12.

While a d8 can reproduce a d4 exactly with one roll.

 

[Kaodi]

But 3d4 isn't 1-12. In order to get 1-12 from a d4, you'd also need to roll another die that is divisible by 3, like a d6

if the d6 is 1-2, then the d4 would be 1-4. If the d6 is 3-4, the d4 would be 5-8, and if the d6 is 5-6, the d4 roll would be 9-12.

While a d8 can reproduce a d4 exactly with one roll.

Yes, but what I am trying to say is that if you design a game to use only d4s, d6s, and d10s, it is entirely irrelevant that you can model d4s with d8s and d6s with d12s because d8s and d12s are not the dice the game system math is built upon.

 

[Ichneumon]

I would hazard a guess that noone in this thread is advocating use of an actual 100-sided die. I think everyone knows who poor the distribution is on those. d100 is just another term for d%, i.e., some way of generating numbers from 1-100, traditionally done using two d10s.

Nominate the tens die before rolling!

 

[Blackwarder]

d4 d6 d8 d10 d12 d20 d100.

And this forums really needs some dice symbols..

Warder