Traveon Wyvernspur
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Get Wil Wheaton to bless them for you at a Con...
Tips/Tricks/Rituals to "bless" new dice?
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Wik
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A lot of GMs like the randomness of die rolls, and I think it's a fair thing to adhere to. Sometimes, it does mean that the game becomes less interesting for an encounter, as the PCs hit a lucky streak and trounce a well-planned encounter.
Sometimes it means that DM "boss encounters" don't work as planned, and the PCs prevail easily because the GM never rolled higher than a '6' on an attack roll.
And sometimes it means that the PCs are nearly killed by goblins. I've done encounters where 5 low-level monsters rolled something like 7 crits in two rounds.
The thing is, if you start modifying die rolls too often, it robs the players of chances to shine (if you raise the target numbers they need to hit to prevent a fight from being a "cakewalk"), or it denies them the opportunity to fail. Dice in the open means the players know you're being honest, and not trying to shoehorn them into things.
It means that their successes, and failures, are entirely their own. And I believe that's a good thing.
Ralls
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I disagree, The GM's job is to be the judge, impartial to the players from die-to-die rolls. It's the individual player's job to make sure they have fun individually.
This method makes for some more meaningful, authentic, campaigns, with more risk verses reward.
Edit: here, this sums it up quite nicely:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/art...raps/7540-Check-for-Traps-It-s-Not-Your-Story
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Nemesis Destiny
Adventurer
I generally like to assign dice to particular characters or roles (I have 'DM dice'), and the dice are always kept fairly segregated, either in dice bags or in their plastic boxes. Some of my older sets from my 2e-era gaming are co-mixed, but all the characters they were used for were in the same setting and played around the same time.
Other than that... nothing in particular.
A friend of mine, with terrible dice-luck, just got a new set, and he's keeping them separate from all his old dice to see if they'll keep their mojo longer.
Another one of our gaming group treats all his dice like crap, but has this one set of translucent light purple dice which he has dubbed, "the Lavender Dice of Love," making mocking reference to my DM dice, which I'd dubbed the "Black Dice of Doom." Unlike my BDoD, which roll horribly, these Lavender dice are murderously high-rollers, especially the d20. He once rolled four critical hits in a row, several of which were natural 20s.
I called him on it, and he says that there is no real mojo to it, and that it only seems that way because he calls attention to all his high rolls and glosses over the bad ones. He likes to make good-natured fun of the rest of us and our silly dice superstitions, rolling conventions, and other idiosyncrasies.
Other than that... nothing in particular.
A friend of mine, with terrible dice-luck, just got a new set, and he's keeping them separate from all his old dice to see if they'll keep their mojo longer.
Another one of our gaming group treats all his dice like crap, but has this one set of translucent light purple dice which he has dubbed, "the Lavender Dice of Love," making mocking reference to my DM dice, which I'd dubbed the "Black Dice of Doom." Unlike my BDoD, which roll horribly, these Lavender dice are murderously high-rollers, especially the d20. He once rolled four critical hits in a row, several of which were natural 20s.
I called him on it, and he says that there is no real mojo to it, and that it only seems that way because he calls attention to all his high rolls and glosses over the bad ones. He likes to make good-natured fun of the rest of us and our silly dice superstitions, rolling conventions, and other idiosyncrasies.
You mean like Matt James did ?
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OLqlKm4u0w]YouTube - Matt James gets his dice blessed![/ame]
(his youtube of about a dozen or so GenCon celebrities blessing his dice)
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Chris Knapp
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When I need a new d20, I buy 2. I place them side by side, then smash one with a hammer. I then hug the other one. I like to keep my dice on their toes.
j/k. I don't hug the other one.
j/k. I don't hug the other one.
Tewligan
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Whenever I buy new dice, I immediately swallow them. Once they have completed their arduous journey and emerged from the other end a day or so later, they are totally in synch with my needs, and respond appropriately with the desired numbers when rolled.
(I would suggest not starting with Game Science dice, though.)
(I would suggest not starting with Game Science dice, though.)
TarionzCousin
Second Most Angelic Devil Ever
A guy in my group was so upset by one of his d20's, that in the middle of a game he threw open the woodstove and tossed the die in there. Then he took his other dice over and "showed" them the stove.
When we fished the die out of the stove later, one side had burned down --so it is now a 21-sided die.
When we fished the die out of the stove later, one side had burned down --so it is now a 21-sided die.
Shadowslayer
Explorer
Thou must anointeth thy dice with the golden nectar of the gods. Having baptized them thus, thou must also carry them forevermore in the purple and yellow trimmed sack that the gods golden bounty came in.
