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General Category => RPGs => : Tadanori Oyama September 18, 2009, 07:24:13 PM
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The idea just struck me that I have three official bags of dice, in varying sizes. One of these bags actually holds other, smaller bags which are filled with dice.
I have three player sets of dice and one DM set, in addition to the mixed bag I keep around, the 10s for games based around d10s, and the little box of matching d6s I keep one hand as well.
In total I must have at least one hundred and fifty individual pieces of numbered plastic.
And I plan to buy more.
Am I alone, or just one of many?
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TA DURR
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It's okay, you're not alone.
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it's not the quantity of dice you have
it's the quality.
Watch an old school nerd sperg out about dice for 20 fucking minutes
part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR2fxoNHIuU
part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxmkWrDbn34
confession: I bought some game science dice with sharp edges at Gencon this year. Hell Yeah truly randomized dice ftw 8)
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Oh god, I love sharp edges on my dice.
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I am so goddamned jealous right now.
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i have one new set that i use. then a large cottage cheese tub full of assorted dice including some strange ufo 6 sided dice. there ugly as hell, black with faded yellow ufo's.
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Watch an old school nerd sperg out about dice for 20 fucking minutes
part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR2fxoNHIuU
part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxmkWrDbn34
That was absolutely mind-blowing. I had no idea that rounded edges were such an evil corporate ploy. I need to get me some hard-edged dice as well.
As far as the original question goes, I believe I have around thirty or forty dice in total, mostly D10s and D20s (because that's what you can use for oWoD games). I have recently purchased a few pairs of D4s, D6s, D8s, D12s, and D30s for a set of D&D games that two of my friends claimed they were going to run, but so far, no joy there.
::wanders away muttering about rock polishers and plastic mold injectors::
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Watch an old school nerd sperg out about dice for 20 fucking minutes
part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR2fxoNHIuU
part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxmkWrDbn34
Youtube at it's best...
It's funny how the players around my table debate on the issue of dice vs player randomization. It's unfortunate, however, that it turn's out that my PK (Player Killer) isn't so much an embodiment of my omnipotent power as the master of dungeons as much so as it is my ability to find thrifty deals on cheap sweat shop dice.
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crystal caste.
Awesome dice.
I have a set of real bone dice and a set of real jade dice. Not to mention tons of plain old plastic ones.
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I have a set of real bone dice
I am only creeped out if it was someone you knew.
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I have a set of real bone dice
I am only creeped out if it was someone you knew.
Would playing with the remains of somebody you knew be good or bad dice luck?
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Bone dice are perfectly okay.
It only gets creepy when those dice are kept in a leather bag made out of that person's skin, their eyeballs turned into a festive replacement for the fuzzy dice hanging from the rearview mirror, their toenails ground up into a fine powder that you sprinkle into your Lipton Tea, their hair shaved off and sewn into a decorative ascott, and their flesh and blood removed to be turned into parchment and ink so you can record your grandmother's delicious chicken caserolle recipe.
Then, and only then, does anything begin to approach creepy.
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My reality needs ctrl-z...
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...and their flesh and blood removed to be turned into parchment and ink so you can record your grandmother's delicious chicken caserolle recipe.
Then, and only then, does anything begin to approach creepy.
I'm sure you mean character sheets, good sir.
Also, I think the good/bad luck mojo of bone dice made from another person would depend on their role at the table. If they were a GM, then the dice are technically both a GM and also GM dice. it would be good luck for another GM to use the dice, and bad luck for another player to use them. (Since the touch of a GM is well known to destroy the roll of a dice, and that GM dice hate the players.) It would also be important to keep them seperate from player dice at all times, since contaminated GM dice are well-known to become murderous towards players.
If it was a person who played exclusively and never ran, then then dice are technically a "player". In this case they actually work as a buffer from GM dice rage. As mentioned before, it is well documented that the touch of a player or their dice makes GM dice angry, and that GM dice will try to destroy the player who was foolish enough to contaminate them. Here the bone dice trick the GM dice, causing them to target the person whose bones were used. Since that person is already dead OOC, there is very little that a dice roll can do to them.
WARNING: If that player's PC lives on as an NPC they are in gave danger. They should be shunted into a forked story arc or alternate dimension (if available) to avoid serious risk of death or dismemberment.
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part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR2fxoNHIuU
part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxmkWrDbn34
It was a pretty convincing speech, but you know I don't think he ever claimed that his clip marks don't cause his dice to roll with a bias.
One of the fellows I game with has a set of game science dice and his d20 tends to roll eights more often than anything, so while I believe that sharp edges may aid in making one's dice more random I'm not convinced that his dice are as random as he's making them out to be.
At some point I noticed that dice are cheaper when you buy them by the pound, so while I can't really tell you how many dice I have I can ballpark the weight at three pounds.
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Oh, yeah. I never answered the question. I think I have around 25 d20s, a pound or two of random polyhedrals, and another 60-80 d10s. (I'm a white wolf guy, and the d10's get used in the FATE variant I run also) I also have about 150 plastic and glass chips, markers and counters from various sources.
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I just got my ma'fukin D-total (http://paizo.com/store/byCompany/g/gamestation/v5748btpy87yh) in last Thursday. Unfortunately I haven't been able to use it in a PnP, but it kicked ass in our last Inn Fighting/Munckin Cthulhu night... wow I'm lame.
/end me
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That thing is way too complicated for me to read. Looks like a good World of Synnibarr dice!
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That thing is way too complicated for me to read. Looks like a good World of Synnibarr dice!
Haha, perhaps you have a point, I was planning on buying 14 more for my Shadowrun game.
In hindsight I think I'll stick with the one.
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2 d4
127 d6
2 d8
4 d10
2 d12
2 d20
Total: 139
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I have 6d10 dice.
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the important thing is the dice never lie
NEVER
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the important thing is the dice never lie
NEVER
Lie? No. Sell themselves? Yes. My dice are total whores. They give me whatever numbers I want behind my DM screen.
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I don't even need a screen for my D-total. You have to have a PhD to read it. lol