Top Ten Terrible Things In This Hobby: #0 Will Amaze You!

[Kobold Catgirl]

This.

What the hell are these?

The dicemaker's drunk again.

No.

Stop it.

I know why you made these and you're sick.

You think you're funny, huh? YOU THINK YOU'RE FUNNY?!

WHO TOLD YOU THESE WERE AN OKAY THING TO CREATE?

if you hated it you should've put it on a ring~

I AM SICK OF ACCIDENTALLY ROLLING YOUR STUPID LYING G#&&%$N DIE

[Kalindlara]

Go home, KC, you're drunk.

[Kobold Catgirl]

A WORLD THAT ALLOWS THESE TO EXIST IS A WORLD THAT REQUIRES ME TO BE DRUNK

[Drahliana Moonrunner]

If this is on one of those pages that make you click through 10 Next Page arrows while drowning in banner ads, I'll pass.

[Kobold Catgirl]

Moonrunner will remain un-amazed.

[mechaPoet]

Are these like...spin down?

[Kobold Catgirl]

Am I the only person who's encountered these abominations?

[thejeff]

Weren't all the d20s like this back in the early days. You were supposed to color one set of numbers with a crayon and those would be the 10s.

I may still have one somewhere.

[Kobold Catgirl]

GET OUT.

[Das Bier]

I actually still use a couple of those dice.

Getting a bit worn around the edges, tho.

[ngc7293]

You thought those dice were bad, (I have tons of them) how about THESE

Roll a 10 but tell the GM you got a nat 20 :D

[I'm Hiding In Your Closet]

It's a good thing you've been drinking a lot, Kobold Cleaver - it might protect you from THIS giving you a heart attack!!!

[Kobold Catgirl]

I own three d3s! It's the deception that drives me to this!

[Blue Moose]

Well, I have 100 of these in a variety of colors from the Kickstarter. Completely removed all the cubes from my dicebag.

[I'm Hiding In Your Closet]

Kobold Cleaver wrote:

I own three d3s! It's the deception that drives me to this!

Is that a fact? Can you recommend a place to buy them?

[Kobold Catgirl]

I got them at a con, sadly. Bother that Bill Webb guy for the intel!

They aren't weird Mobius Strip dice, though. Just sorta cylindrical things.

Blue Moose: You are a terrible moose and I hope you get someone's initials carved into your antler with a toothbrush.

[Deadalready]

The first mentioned dice look like HP counters, you use them not to roll but to keep on the table for counting damage.

I have a few D3s from a now closed website and I love them. They've come in useful for many Pathfinder sessions.

[Carl Hanson]

I have a few of those d10s. I actually like them better than traditional d10s because they are better balanced and roll more naturally.

[Krensky]

KC obviously prefers icky irregular solids over the stately dodecahedron.

In otherwords, he's drunk, insane, or both.

[Bill Dunn]

Blue Moose wrote:

Well, I have 100 of these in a variety of colors from the Kickstarter. Completely removed all the cubes from my dicebag.

I did something similar to replace my d4s.

12-sided d4

Reading them is a bit more intuitable than a tetrahedral d4. And they don't turn into caltrops if the cat knocks them to the floor in the middle of the night.

[GM 1990]

I've got a couple of the clear versions from my late 1E days - very difficult to read even with crayon highlighting. Plus after a few beers you forget which color is 0+x's and which is 10+x - that's no good even if you're GMing.

We also have some oversized cubes that are d3 from one of our homeschooling kits (I always assumed they were d6). funny thing there...my son's first character he grabbed those and using 4d6 stat method had a "high" of 11 (there was 1 true d6 in there). I just looked at him like - no way you're my kid. Only after making him roll a few more times did I notice nothing above 3 was coming up and inspected them myself. Dooh.

[GM_Beernorg]

LOL GM 1990!

[Scythia]

Are you complaining about the rounded corners, or the 0 instead of 10?

If it's the zero, I have good news.

[Kobold Catgirl]

I'd fire all of you if I could.

[I'm Hiding In Your Closet]

How much damage does a Paizonian Cannonball act do?: 15d20 ⇒ (4, 10, 7, 20, 13, 17, 18, 12, 3, 6, 2, 12, 6, 20, 17) = 167

And now...IN STEREO!!!: 1d3 + 1d4 + 1d5 + 1d6 + 1d7 + 1d8 + 1d9 + 1d10 + 1d11 + 1d12 + 1d20 + 1d30 + 1d40 + 1d50 + 1d100 ⇒ (2) + (4) + (4) + (1) + (1) + (7) + (2) + (9) + (9) + (6) + (7) + (8) + (18) + (49) + (11) = 138

*picks up d100, looks at it closely...* SHAME ON YOU! :*(

[Haladir]

When I started gaming, the now-traditional d10 was very new and somewhat rare. Most d20s were numbered 0-9 twice. Dice weren't painted, and you filled in the recess with a crayon. On the d20, you filled in each 0-9 numbers with two colors of crayon, usually white (or black)/red, where red was 10+result.

Some cheaters would fill in both 0's or 9's with red, upping the odds of rolling well; Gygax made a comment about that in the 1st ed AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide.

I still have a few of those dice from the early 1980s in my dice bag.

[Aranna]

Scythia wrote:

Are you complaining about the rounded corners, or the 0 instead of 10?

If it's the zero, I have good news.

Those would go PERFECTLY with a certain top I could wear to the game. Dice should always compliment your outfit. Why else make them in so MANY color combinations?

Like my favorite Blue Jean colored dice that go great when I am wearing jeans.

[Aranna]

KC the whole point of such dice is to increase the randomness of a d10 by giving it twenty sides. Nothing nefarious about that. As long as you simply familiarize yourself with the look and shape of the various dice you own then you shouldn't have any issues of tossing the wrong one.

[EileenProphetofIstus]

Completely sacrilegious KC, such dice should not exist and I back up your crusade to rid the world of these abominations. I'm still having a cow from when they changed the d4. The readable number should be on the bottom, not the top. These darn kids and their new ideas, destroying the hobby I tell you, destroying it.

I recall the dice we colored, the ones available in my area were numbered 1-20. Now these were REAL Gaming dice.

[Sissyl]

I really need rhombal dodecahedrons to use as d12s. Why this is not a thing yet is beyond me.

[KenderKin]

Ah viewing the dice through beer goggles....funny how much better you roll after a few drinks.....

Have you met my new fighter?

I present...
Beercules!!!!!

[Aaron Bitman]

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

[Distant Scholar]

Sissyl wrote:

I really need rhombal dodecahedrons to use as d12s. Why this is not a thing yet is beyond me.

Whatever could you mean?

[Sissyl]

Thank you.

[Sarcasm Dragon]

Kobold Cleaver wrote:

I'd fire all of you if I could.

You can't, you're too much of a loser, because there's a big, huuuuuuuge trademark on firing people. If only you weren't so much of a loser, you might be great again.

[KenderKin]

Also drinking and rolling percentile always worked in your favor!

Magically 28 became 82...

and a roll of both 6 and 9 was always 69, just so you could say it...

And which dice was tens place just kept changing....

[Trigger Loaded]

Actually, I'm wanting some of those 1-10 D20's. Mostly because I realize that the D10's aren't even proper from for a polyhedron. All the other dice have proper forms, even faces nicely arranged in a geometrically pleasing style. D10's are mutant pedigree dog breeds that people reproduce and hold dog shows for even as they wheeze and limp around. (But such smooth coats!)

(He says this, even as he holds a D7 and D5 in his collection)

[Krensky]

The term you want is regular polyhedron.

[Scythia]

Trigger Loaded wrote:

Actually, I'm wanting some of those 1-10 D20's. Mostly because I realize that the D10's aren't even proper from for a polyhedron. All the other dice have proper forms, even faces nicely arranged in a geometrically pleasing style. D10's are mutant pedigree dog breeds that people reproduce and hold dog shows for even as they wheeze and limp around. (But such smooth coats!)

(He says this, even as he holds a D7 and D5 in his collection)

I'm pretty sure you can still find them.

Already coloured numbers though.

[GM Rednal]

...If it helps, I have a Cthulhu Dice.

[Das Bier]

a die that if you comprehend the runes on it, you go mad?

[Krensky]

Euclidean dice will not avail you in any event

[GM Rednal]

Well, it does take your sanity if you roll Cthulhu on it, and the Yellow Sign isn't much better...

[Sissyl]

Blasphemous geometries. When Sacrilegious topology just doesn't do it for you anymore.

[Krensky]

Well if you really want to start feeling off, remeber that the real world is not Euclidean. It's Elliptic.

[Spiral_Ninja]

Why did I check out this thread?

Now I want all of those odd dice.

BTW, I still have (and sometimes use) a set of those tiger-eye ones.

[Tacticslion]

Thread and post make a pleasant clickbait twofer. Alas, I Vlaeros didn't think to put a link in my his post to something almost entirely unrelated to the topics at-hand. Moron.

[Trigger Loaded]

Krensky wrote:

The term you want is regular polyhedron.

Ahh, I am enlightened.

Scythia wrote:

I'm pretty sure you can still find them.

Already coloured numbers though.

And even a way to buy some. Danke.

Just have to remember to keep them segregated.

[SilvercatMoonpaw]

I will add "Not having any reason to complain about dice" to my list of reasons why I like gaming online.

[Aranna]

SilvercatMoonpaw wrote:

I will add "Not having any reason to complain about dice" to my list of reasons why I like gaming online.

You haven't ever complained about online dice rollers?