what dice does /tg/ use.
where should i get mine?
what materials?
and just general dice thread (show me some cool shit)
dice:
what dice does /tg/ use.
where should i get mine?
what materials?
and just general dice thread (show me some cool shit)
Just buy whatever dice you think look cool. Material/size/brand really doesn't matter. I buy most of my dice off Amazon since I live in the middle of nowhere and don't have a FLGS near me, but if you do then you should buy your dice there. You can get loose dice for pretty cheap.
For Conspiracy X (2d6 system) I use dice from the Bellagio casino. I should explain:
> Playing Con X and doing a job in vegas, investigating a possible alien bioweapon (Which for reasons that will become clear we never found)
> Character gets caught snooping around being a suspicious bastard and cop asks us what we're doing.
> Brit so no clue about Vegas
> Wildly bullshitting, claim to be security scoping the area for an upcoming event at the Bellagio
> Cop immediately arrests us
The GM claimed that the Bellagio wasn't a real casino and was made up for Ocean's 11. To be fair, that was where I had pulled the name from. Despite evidence and an entire group arguing he was wrong the GM refused to budge, nice guy but has a stubborn streak sometimes.
So I bought some ex Bellagio dice and started using them at the game to wind him up.
>So I bought some ex Bellagio dice and started using them at the game to wind him up.
That is my exact brand of asshollery, I salute you.
Just bought a garnet zircon d20. I usually never buy anything excessive or splurge on a hobby, but just felt like getting a d20 that spelt special.
I browsed Etsy, found a manufacturer I liked, and bought from them directly.
Some anon said Aliexpress is a surprisingly good place to buy dice, but if you don't like throwing dice (heh) when making purchases I'd be skeptical.
thediceshoponline seemed promising, but didn't have anything that really clicked with me.
It's probably best to check out your LGSs before shopping online though.
Does anyone have experience with dice that have shit embedded in them? Is the alien material usually as dense as the resin around it, or does it affect dice throw averages?
The manufacturing process isn't anything like precise enough for that to matter in my experience (Stack two piles of ten d20s from the same company and you'll see the variation in rhe different sizes of the piles.)
With that in mind go with gamescience if you care about accuracy or anything else if you don't.
Its possible but would it even be significant? I guess you can always float them in water and see which face is up...
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Get denser water
at those prices? no way
https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/aldrich/608572?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIzpfNk_71-AIVJY9oCR33EA6CEAAYASAAEgLyHfD_BwE
just put normal water in the freezer a bit until it’s denser
chemistry is a scam
Nobody tell him.
My traditional dice still are some toy blocks, my school didn't let you bring dices because gambling, so I would bring them, paint the pips just with dry erase marker and clean afterwards...nowadays I have complete sets of dices but I still tend to play games that only use d6s because of it
I prefer Game Science but honestly it's more for nostalgia (they resemble the dice I used when I was a little kid) than for their superior randomness.
those dice look like they’ve seen some shit
The ones on the right are my originals from the 80s, the ones on the left are brand new Game Science. I have just as many other dice that I accumulated in between but I sorted the old ones out for comparison for that pic.
In sorting them and really looking at them I came to the conclusion that people steal my Chessex type dice but they don't steal the "ugly" high impact dice which is another good reason to buy them.
>originals from the 80s
frick, they wore out beautifully anon
apparently even the GS dice that look like total shit are more precise than Chessex
Supposedly the rock tumblers Chessex puts their dice through cause them to be measurably egg-shaped which obviously would impact their randomness. I wonder if that is because the dice are more imbalanced to begin with. It might be interesting to take some of my very old dice that have been beat to hell through normal use and measure them precisely with scientific calipers to determine if they are also egg-shaped or if they wore evenly.
Thanks
Both those posts are me, I think we had a discussion in a previous thread where I was skeptical about GS. I don't get why they'd tumble dice since sharp edges look way better.
Part of it is how they ink their dice, they dip the entire die then the tumbling takes off all the paint except what's in the indentations
IMO D6 is so random and many D6 wargames roll so many duce that really I have no noticeable difference between my unissued casino dice I paid 40 bucks for and came in butter stick looking foils and the Chessex dice I bought for 8 bucks
>Casino dice I paid 40 bucks for
how many did you get for that much?
i think they come in packs of 8 if i recall, my dad was a pitboss we had em all over the house
so like 8 or 16 id wager
>you forgot your dice again? no prob, bro, here's your set for the evening
I thought we were friends, Greg.
What the frick is this?
Fricking Madcatz
Generally I use these
Does anyone else refuse to play any game that uses proprietary dice?
i'll use them but only if the DM provides them.
they do provide a free dice app and allow 3rd party apps to include their dice so it’s not so bad
they look like shit, though, like someone let they’re graphic design dropout cousin design them
missing out on a great system then
i looove! dooce.
their new d20 just feels perfect in your hands.
really makes you feel like a perfect gamer
I have a shitton of cheap dice in various colours that I like which I bought off of cheap shit sites when I needed a bunch for running a club/newbie group
they're probably unbalanced as frick but it wasn't noticeable in our casual play and I figure rotating through them makes it even out
All my 80's dice vanished in the 80's when my dad tossed my stuff while I was away at school.
Cheapest dice in a color I like. I don't care if they are fair to the 0.0001%, I will never throw them enough times to notice.
I want to buy some dice made from bones because I'm feeling edgy
I once gave a player in-game a set of d6s made from the bones of a cursed prisoner that would always roll whatever he wanted them to. Obviously in-game, not for skill checks or anything. He got to use them a handful of times before someone picked up on what was up and crushed them
I like Chessex opaque solid colors ones.
I only use legible and opaque dice. Speckled, see through, garishly colored, overdetailed or weirdly shaped are just a good way to piss off the DM. Or half the table if even the player can't read his own rolls.
https://www.thediceshoponline.com
> what dice does /tg/ use.
The kind that generate random numbers.
As the ones that don’t have the bad habit of getting the player’s teeth knocked out. Not condoning nor condemning, just stating a typical consequence.
The hell kind of dice sid you play with?
Plastic polyhedral dice of indeterminate origin for the most part. An online dice roller is sometimes used but it needs to be one the other players and GM trust.
Don’t overthink this.
>t. nogames larping
I have a pretty good sized collection (it's gotten slightly larger since I took this picture, mostly adding some more Genesys dice, some dice for Star Trek Adventures, as well as two sets of the Seth Skorkowsky dice from Q Workshop.
I have a friend who owns an original Basic Set from the dice shortage period, and he still has the original sheet of dice chits and coupon for a free dice set. I don't have a photo of the particular item, but this is what they look like.
I love chits, I wish they were used more often. Maybe not for specific dice roll mechanics both for other possible mechanical uses for characters.
I play online 🙁