What does you dice jail look like?

[DRD1812]

If you're a GM, I assume you're the warden of your own dice jail. I've been thinking about upgrading my "drawer of shame" for some time now. I'm not much of an architect thought, and I want to make sure I get it right.

What's the best build? Do you paint the acrylic rectangular prism of a Chessex box like a tiny cell? Is it better to construct some sort of balsa wood dice gibbet? Or is the best setup an executioner's square, complete with stone block and hammer? Is there any one method that seems to get better results from your other dice?

(Comic for illustrative purposes.)

[DeathlessOne]

I have players that actually have dice jails, one of which the wife and I bought for them as a Christmas gift. Personally, I don't have a dice jail. I have one particular set of dice when I run the game (one I've had for nearly 12 years), and get a new set of dice for each new character I play (or re-use dice if previous adventurer retired or died).

[Mark Hoover 330]

I've never had a dice jail but a few of my players have them. Usually it's a little box they keep in their larger dice container. One friend years ago used a band-aid tin he threw into his Crown Royal bag; one guy in my current megadungeon campaign has a plastic flat box that fits as a compartment in a tackle box into which he throws "unruly" dice.

I figure it's all chance. As a GM I generally roll right out in the open and my d20's swing wildly. Last game I hit with multiple iterative attacks by CR6 monsters against PCs with AC 25 and 26 respectively, but at the same time one of these monsters missed a DC 14 Ref save... and they have a +6 on the check.

Meh, stuff happens. Sometimes fate's on your side, sometimes it isn't. No need to punish inanimate objects for forces beyond their control.

[DungeonmasterCal]

One of my players has a small dice jail, with metal bars and everything and she uses it. I have never imprisoned my dice, but if I'm not satisfied with their performance, I just put them back in the chest that I keep my dice in and get out another set. My dice obsession makes me shrink back, hissing and snarling, when people destroy their dice for bad rolls. I love all of my 800+ polyhedral children.

[Mark Hoover 330]

800+? Man, I've never counted my dice but my collection pales in comparison! Still, I'd estimate I have a couple hundred at this point.

Years ago I bought a large craft tackle box, meant to hold a variety of different paints and brushes, with the goal of filling it. Most of that box holds dice, though there are also painted/unpainted minis, paper templates, and mini-bricks for spontaneous terrain generation in there as well.

For my 30'th birthday my oldest brother (who has always picked on me for being a gamer) hand-crafted me a solid wood chest a bit larger than a very old fashioned pencil box, lined on the inside with green felt. This holds another batch of my dice, the ones I reserve for special occasions or I just really enjoy the look of.

Finally there's my "every session" dice box. This is a very small, basic plastic flat box, originally billed as a fishing lure tackle box. this has 7 slots; 6 containing a few each of the 6 types of PF1 dice, then the 7th holding some minis.

I suppose I could clear out the minis from the every session box, make that slot my "dice jail," but I don't see a need for it.

[Mudfoot]

One of my players used to use the lawn outside as his dice jail. If one wasn't behaving, it went out of the window. He had a lot of dice, owing to his having been a branch manager of Games Workshop.

[Waterhammer]

I don’t have a dice jail. Don’t have that many dice either.

The friend I used to play Squad Leader with had magic dice though. They would roll snake-eyes with disturbing regularity. So unbeknownst to him, I traded one of my dice(with normal probabilities) for one of his magic ones. All of a sudden, it turned out that I wasn’t an incompetent general. Eventually he figured out what had happened, and got his “lucky” die back. A bit after that, we stopped playing Squad Leader.

[Lathiira]

You use a jail? I annihilate them down to crimson dust particles in a burst of cosmic fire. Perform or be obliterated.

[Sysryke]

No jail. I lay out all of the dice I'm willing to use for the night in little groups either based on complete sets, or by size. I stick with one die until it fails me in a grand fashion. 3 or 4 moderately cruddy rolls will also get that die sent to "time out". I tend to roll poorly anyway, so I often go through several d20's in one session. It's kind of cool when I realize I've used the same one all night :)

So, I don't really ever jail or "fire" my dice, they just get put in detention sometimes.

My group on the other hand has fired my dice tower. It's a lovely handcrafted wooden book, emblazoned with my name. The "spine" of the book is a dice rolling tower. As much as I love this thing (best Groomsmen gift ever!), every time I try to use it, I roll terribly. I want to keep trying to give it a chance, but the group says "NO!"

[VoodistMonk]

Lathiira wrote:

You use a jail? I annihilate them down to crimson dust particles in a burst of cosmic fire. Perform or be obliterated.

Purge them with fire! Then use the charred lump of plastic as field debris on the map... paint them like rocks and bushes, use them on the board to remind all the other dice what will happen...

[VoodistMonk]

Honestly, I have always thought it was bad luck to be superstitious... nothing you do or possibly believe in will ever sway or influence the raw probability of rolling dice. There is no dice god or goddess that will favor or punish you by magically changing how the dice lands. Some are low, some are high, that is how probability works.

But, because believing in nothing is boring, and life is short...

I think I will start using all of my DnD dice to cast my points when dabbling in Geomancy, and possibly alongside my Ogham fews when toying with Cleromancy. They say that you should include the utensiles and tools of your magic in everyday life. I carry my white knife, or boline, everywhere with me and use it for everything... it is also a ceremonial tool used in my craft, and was purchased with these rituals in mind (not slicing apples or opening motor oil or cleaning my fingernails). Every. Day. Magic. So, the dice will become a part of my magic, and will also see use in a tabletop roleplaying game that happens to include magic.

PS. Give your all dice of ill-omen to your GM/players as a gift. HA(×3)!!!

[Ryze Kuja]

I don't have a dice jail, but now I want one... I'm thinking it should be a Rapunzel-esque tower of shame where the dice cannot climb down because they don't have long hair... and the fall would kill them. Mwahaha n stuff.

[Lathiira]

VoodistMonk wrote:

Lathiira wrote:

You use a jail? I annihilate them down to crimson dust particles in a burst of cosmic fire. Perform or be obliterated.

Purge them with fire! Then use the charred lump of plastic as field debris on the map... paint them like rocks and bushes, use them on the board to remind all the other dice what will happen...

You. You understand.

[GM_Beernorg]

I will never destroy dice when they missbehave, but they do get a stern talking to and a time out to think about what they did, or in point of fact, did not do. Tempted to make a little jail though, "you, purple d20, get yourself to the fail tank and think about what you did!"

[Neriathale]

Each set of 7 dice is in its own little velvet bag, and if they misbehave they go back in the bag and on the bottom tray of the dice box, while another set is chosen at random. Given how infrequently we play in person they will probably sit there for a couple of years until they behave.

[DRD1812]

Lathiira wrote:

You use a jail? I annihilate them down to crimson dust particles in a burst of cosmic fire. Perform or be obliterated.

You see? If you treat your PCs with kid gloves, they won't treat consequences seriously.

[VoodistMonk]

I'm gonna call a couple of hard pipe-hitting nerds to go to work on the dices here with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch...

[Jonathan Morgantini]

Moved from Pathfinder General Discussion to Gamer life General

[Goth Guru]

A D20 ruined 2 consecutive true strikes with a 1. I stuffed it into the bottom of a plastic trash can. It should still be in a landfill.