I know plenty of gamers who like to collect dice, myself being one of them. Question being, do any of you have an unique or unusual dice that have come into your collection?
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I have a bright orange, hollow, hard plastic D6 that I got for a quarter (that's about 0.20 Euros for you guys across the pond) out of a "Toy-n-Joy"-type toy dispenser.
It's such a piece of junk. I don't think it's even properly weighted. It usually rolls ones.
I call him "The General," and I pull him out to lead the lesser d6's for those great big sneak attacks/fireballs...
I love it.
I also plan on getting myself one of THESE, because I seen it IRL and it just about the coolest die EVAR.
Coolest. Die. EVAR.
That's pretty cool! I remember the first die I ever owned. I was walking through the state fair, a once a year occasion where I live, and on the ground I saw a strange, 12 sided object. I had gamed on one occasion previously, though the game had only used six sided dice. I thought that this mysterious object was the coolest thing I had ever seen! Thus was the kick start to my collection. I still have the die, though it wasn't till many years later that I found out that it was an Armory d12.
Coolest die that I've ever seen was pretty mundane, it was a blue d20 with white lettering (or more so numbering)...but its SIZE (!!!!) holy crap, it was probably 2 inches in diameter, wow it was just massive.
It was pretty cool. My first die that I got was a d20 yellow with black numbering, I still use it (but it doesn't seem to work for me...lol..."unlucky" if you will)
Also, does anybody know how the d100s work???
Thats been puzzling me for so long and I can't seem to figure it out...
Also, does anybody know how the d100s work???
Thats been puzzling me for so long and I can't seem to figure it out...
Um, you roll it...and wait for it to stop rolling. An underhand technique with a light toss seems to be best, as well as rolling it in a containable area. Try to determine the "top" of the dice when it stops rolling and call out the number that's at the "top." Percentiles dice are much much easier than the Golfball, IMHO.
Um, you roll it...and wait for it to stop rolling. An underhand technique with a light toss seems to be best, as well as rolling it in a containable area. Try to determine the "top" of the dice when it stops rolling and call out the number that's at the "top." Percentiles dice are much much easier than the Golfball, IMHO.
Lol...sry...I really didn't ask the right question...in the Paizo store you can buy d100s, they look round and it would be impossible to determine what you rolled that way...
Lol...sry for the stupid question...I feel like a retard...
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Chief Technical Officer
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in the Paizo store you can buy d100s, they look round...
As Lilith suggested, they really look more like golfballs (but with only 100 dimples). So they do (eventually) stop rolling, and then you read the dimple on top (though it might take you a second or two to figure out which dimple is the one on top).
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I'm a bit of a dice junky, I actually had posted a link on this site before to a set of bone dice that were actually made out of bone. Someone above mentioned a set of percentiles that was two d10s in one another, I have some dice like that except they are d6s instead of d10s. It saves from the scattering of many many dice when you throw out one of those huge spells or are playing in a d6 based game.
Probably my favorite dice though came out of a boardgame I had in the late 80s. Trump the game. If I remember right the game had a rerelease fairly recently due to the popularity of the apprentice, so it may still be something that could be found. In it though was a set of d6s that looked just like normal dice in every way except for the fact that they have a bit T where the 6 should be. I like them so much because it seems like if I roll one with a bunch of other d6s it always either rolls a 6 or a 1 and the other dice follow suit.
My group has come to accept this now and gets all nervous when I pick it up with some damage dice. There is nothing like dumping out nearly 10 6s and announcing 'The Trump has spoken.'
I'v seen a 1d100 that was about the size of a hard ball that had 100 sides...
and I own a clear 1d30 with white lettering