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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turhan" data-source="post: 2702962" data-attributes="member: 21856">We use a gambling die.  It has the faces of 6 poker cards on it: ace, king, jack etc.The ace is a spade.  If something really bad happens, or if a critical fumble is rolled, and I want to find out just how bad it might be, then I roll the gambling die.  If a spade comes up, I say something like, "Oh, that won't be very nice."If something good happens, I roll another 6 sided die.  This one has a squirrel on one side (the one pip).  If the squirrel comes up I announce. "Ah, The rabid squirrel of Death."  And everyone rejoices.  Since I usually roll both dice at once when evaluating a potentially tragic scene, it is possible for a bad situation to be turned into a good one.  Slightly so at any rate.  The squirrel can easily mean life instead of death in a tough spot, but usually it just acts to indicate a mitigating factor that keeps a bad thing from being so bad, or showing that a good thing is really good.  Rolling the dice also gives me a few more seconds to think up a good story about what just happened to explain the player's dice rolls.  "Oh, darn, you stepped in a gopher hole."  "Jeez, my orc slipped in a pile of guts."  "You lucky  dog.  The stone giant tried a massive overhand swing but got his warhammer caught in a thick tree branch by the trail."and so it goes.</blockquote>