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Also dice thread. Post cool dice, awful dice, dice you use, and dice you recommend for other anons.
Yes.
Reminder that those tumbled pieces of shit aren't really random.
Unless it uses something like random.org neither are these.
>aren't really random
Randomness is a mathematical construct and doesn't exist in the natural world senpai.
d12 in shape of rhombic dodecahedron, pretty please.
>moron never heard about radioactive decay
>radioactive decay
The fact that we can't predict it currently doesn't mean that it is truly random.
>it currently
We have no proof radioactive decay is deterministic, and no way to judge one way or the other.
*laughs in quantum physics
For all intensive purposes they may as well be random.
>For all intensive purposes
Kek. Low-life moron.
People that get sayings wrong are a diamond dozen. It's a doggie dog world out there, no need to tear people down
Yeah the whole thing is a damp squid.
>Reminder that those tumbled pieces of shit aren't really random.
Reminder that no one with real friends gives a shit
That's WHY everyone here gives a shit.
>Reminder that those tumbled pieces of shit aren't really random.
Wrong, that's a common misconception. Fair and balanced dice aren't random, because you know they're fair. If dice are unbalanced and unfair it they won't do what you expect them to, so they're better and more random.
I pity deeply whomever had to educate you.
are there any rpg dice apps that use random.org?
No. I need something less fancy.
I need a lot more d6s than that.
What systems do you guys enjoy? It isn't just GURPS/PbtA or something? What about fancy games like Dogs in the Vineyard, etc?
I mostly play Wargames but I'm well aware of shit loads of d6 based RPGs.
It is weird, there are no popular wargames with fancy dice. I bet it could bring something new to the design.
That depends a lot on your thresholds for "popular wargame" and "fancy dice". Infinity, Mutant Chronicles, and Rangers of Shadow Deep use d20s. A whole bunch use d10s. Several of Mantic's games use d6s and custom d6s. Malifaux uses cards.
If you play warhammer it’s legitimately in your interest to have 30+ d6 die.
>30
Not nearly enough
I like EZD6 because it's simple enough for my under evolved monkey brain to understand and run
Mini Six is fricking great.
>Mini Six is fricking great.
What about all the problems with it that the creator outlined on their blog?
Admittedly, the magic system sucks and you should use a better one (Into the Shadows is good) but aside from that it's good.
I ppay 5e, but use 3d6 as the base dice instead of d20.
Just Battletech, fullstop.
I mean, I'll play other stuff when invited, but if we're talking what I take the initiative to play or put money into, just that. That said though CGL's been more dickish than usual and my minis backlog is huge, so I don't think I'll be adding to their coffers for a bit.
I'm going to need a good number of D6es.
Prowlers and paragons.
It's more of a want, really.
sorry but I only use d6s
IM SOWWYYY
Depends on the circumstances. Glow-in-the-dark dice, really small or really big dice all have their use.
Nope. You already have too much.
>d20
Consider suicide
You first, show us a good example of how it's done.
Na.
>Shadow of the Feces lord
EVERY TIME
let people enjoy their fetishes anon
don't kinkshame
We don't kinkshame in this house, unless it's NTR.
It's a good system anon. Very easy to ignore the like two Forbidden spells and use your own setting like you do in any other TTRPG.
when's shades of the really pissed off magician coming out again?
I heard that one has a more normal setting
>Claims to hate shit lords
>Acts like one for free on Ganker.org
I bet you play 2d20 and enjoy it
You’re god damn right
>Primarily plays 5E
>Only plays edgy rogues
>Uses shortsword instead of literally any of the cooler rogue weapons
homosexual.
He could be playing a Greatsword Fighter, anon.
but he'd need other dice to use with his battlemaster superiority dice.
I mean no one uses other subclasses right?
>not going Rune Knight to GET HUGE
ngmi
> crosses out the d12
Mathlet.
I'm making a dice pool system that uses nothing but d12!
I will make the d12 popular!
Truly a gentleman and scholar. Tell us about your stem. What properties of best die do you use? What's the inspiration for the mechanics?
If i remember correctly advanced heroquest used 2d12
there's nothing mathy about any of the dice.
need? no
Want? yes
i dont need stupid games for manchild to survive either. but if we are doomed to live on this place, why dont we have something nice, what is not only purely functional, but also aesthetically pleasant?
>Reddit dice
Frick off freak, all i need is some good ol' bones
These guys here
Maybe my favorite kind of dice ever. Love them.
These look like they're going to give me radium poisoning.
That's the appeal
I've recently bought a bunch of d20s for a homebrew game and now don't know what to do with them since I am not sure about the homebrew and systems like 2d20 suck ass.
2d20 is amazing, you don't know what you are talking about. It is like double caramel, double rainbow or lesbian porn for males. 2 of the thing i like.
Is it? I planned to run a Fallout campaign for my friends, but after reading the 2d20 Fallout PDF I was disappointed in meta-currencies and how fiddly all the system sounds. What makes it so double-rainbowy for you?
I just like d20s. Metacurrency beyond XP is always fiddly and a very haphazard design choice. Never liked it, but it isn't that bad in this case. Only played Conan though can't speak for the rest.
That's right.
>logo dice
Absolutely disgusting. Whenever someone brings these, logo face means worst result in my games.
I do like a nice gradient.
It's never been about need frickboi.
I will roll my pretty brass metal dice because god himself cannot stop me. On a nice protective mat or tray to not damage your table, I'm not a fricking monster.
I wonder how balanced these things actually are
Since they're the cheap knock-off version, they're probably about as balanced as a cheap set of "two-tone" swirled dice made from different types of resin - ie: not very. Roll them a couple dozen times and you'll know which numbers they favour.
If you want a set that the makers actually put a bit of effort into balancing, you'll need to wait until they finish their current backlog of orders... variable colours, bluetooth connected, programmable, and sensors in the dice to tell your phone what face is up.
Also, be prepared to mortgage your house to afford them.
jesus those look like ass
Nope, that d% is already too fancy for me. Just use 2d10 you can tell apart or roll one of them twice.
Yes
Patrician taste.
This causes mechanic fatigue. Some rolls should really just have a binary outcome.
Based and dice-pilled
bro just give your players boosts on their next roll and be done with it
that or have them recover strain
it's really not a big deal
I like my dice. I used to play with random mismatches from basic color sets and they where fine but I honestly just like prettier dice now. I buy a new set for each of my characters and sometimes I invoke the power of a dead or retired character by rolling "their" die for specific skill checks. Like any crucial life or death athletics check is done with the anthracite blood spatter one because my tortle barbarian literally never failed a single athletics check in his entire 1 through 14 tomb of annihilation campaign. I only invoke its power on rare and crucial occasions and it has yet to let me down. I am actually waiting for a new set of those sharp edged dice to come in so I can use them as a dedicated oneshot set. Also my next character will be a dragonborn paladin and I'll buy the liquid core dragon eye dice for him.
I like the pretty dice. They add flair to the table and I enjoy seeing the different choices people make for their fancy dice.
Sometimes I refer to them as math rocks. Be welcomed to seethe and dilate at your leisure.
>d30
what the hell
my DM uses a d30 to determine some aspects of procedurally generating locations and their effects on each of us in a weird labyrinthine demiplane we are trying to find our way through
I prefer a thinking man's die.
All I want is a good set of hard edge dice with a solid color and a high contrast number on it so it's easy to read from across the table.
The only fancy thing I like to do is using a bunch of red d6 for a fireball or a bunch of blue ones for lightning bolt or something
For me it's this stainless steel set and a tungsten d20. Why waste your time and money on plastic?
Need? No. Want? Yes.
And what I REALLY want are uranium dice. If I'm going to be accused of being a cancer at the gaming table, I want to earn the title.
https://www.luciteria.com/elements-for-sale/buy-uranium
that's $35 per gram
you can probably get it cheaper from other sources abroad but getting it through the customs will be a b***h
Wouldn't it be unreasonably heavy, and damage surfaces?
>he doesn't use dice trays
a depleted uranium die is gonna break the tray too
These are thematically fun for firearm damage in Delta Green
I go for gamescience and casino dice for most of the games I play.
Why hasn't someone made a basic set with casino dice aesthetics (huge, sharp edge)
On the off chance you want a real answer, it's because they'd be expensive, with a high QC failure rate. Cheap shit like Chessex dice are perceived as "fair enough" by the enormous majority of gamers, and so you'd have to compete with them on price, and you'd lose. There just isn't a market for dice like that. The expensive dice which sell all have some form of gimmick. Plain dice that are just "extra fair" and are 3-5 times to cost of a basic Chessex dice set aren't going to sell. Simple as.
Your set includes a d100? Too fancy.
I use these because they have a picture of a cute girl on the box
>rolls to acquire HRT
Cute
20+6 is also used in Lancer, Icon, and my homebrew
critical success! enjoy your titty skittles!
Fancier? No.
Better contrast? Yes.
Hey Hank.
I typically use Paladin Roleplaying dice, basically the cheapest brand that does probability testing to make sure the dice they're selling are fairly balanced. Nice selection of easily legible color combinations too.
I did get a set of homemade dice from the art hoe of my D&D group for Christmas though, they're very obviously fricked balance-wise but I like to use them when she decides to run the occasional 1-shot for our group.
I should clarify, I'm only really autistic about balanced dice when it comes to miniature wargames as those are at least somewhat competitive in nature - even casually, I don't want to cheat myself or my opponent with lopsided dice. I don't give a ton of fricks about perfect dice balance for RPG's.
Pic rel is the previously mentioned art hoe dice, complete with their jean pocket dice pouch embroidered with the name of the first character I played in a game with her.
Did you get to hit it?
Nope. I'm married and she's engaged. She made custom dice for our whole group, it wasn't some kind of special thing just for me.
>I'm married and she's engaged.
It's 2024. What difference is that supposed to make?
All the difference, as ever.
The d100 is the only type of dice I require. A perfect die, the dice for every occasion, the one type I need for any tabletop game. An exact complement to nuanced statistical spreads, the peak percentile value producer. Even if one were to lower oneself to using other boundings, the d100 can serve as a d4, a d10, a d20, all with the simplest of subdivision. I would go so far as to say d100 makes all lesser dice irrelevant.
Truly, nothing surpasses the d100, and when the time comes to step aside from traditional games on the table, I can even bring my dice with me to as golf balls. No dice are better and no substitutes are worth accepting.
Until you meet the d120, which is the largest possible fair die and also cleanly divides by 3, 6, 8, 12, 15, 24, 30, 40 and 60.
>clearly says LOL
someone was havin a laff with this one
If you don't play games with only cubic dice with dotes as numbers you don't get to shame others for their polyhedron.
Is it true that metal dice are fricked balance-wise?
Depends which manufacturer and the dice but I would say that zinc without the gaudy patterns are likely fairer than plastic with air pockets.
Frick fancy dice
Give me your fancy dice pouches.
I'm looking for someone who makes a dice pouch that folds out or snaps or something into a dice tray. I currently just use an old Chiva bottle sack for my dice but I'd like to upgrade at some point.
The objective best dice tier list
>Readable and cool looking (aka the holy grail)
>Readable (aka ol reliable)
>Cool Looking but unreadable (aka collectors items)
>Boring and unreadable (aka waste of plastic)
yes, you are missing the essential d3, d5, d7, d14, d16, d24 and d30. the mistake of a novice conjurer if ever i've seen one
I have a pretty nice custom set my younger sister made for me as a birthday gift in red and blue
I have a set of big, sharp metal dice that I use. Call 'em the table denters.
No I do not use a dice tower or tray thank you for asking.
I still have the set of cheapass plastic dice I bought over 20 years ago.
I want more materials.
Bone, wood, stone, glass, rubber, different metals... don't care much for differently painted plastic or ugly fonts but the different haptics of different materials are kink
wanted to say kino but kink works actually
>Bone, wood, stone, glass, rubber, different metals
Do you know of artisandice? They use many fancy materials to make some very interesting, at least visually, dice. Expensive as frick though. Pic-rel are the ideal dice for your SotDL game since they are made out of poop. They cost 215 USD.
>Pic-rel are the ideal dice for your SotDL game since they are made out of poop
The joke just never gets old. Actually made of it or have small inclusions of it? How would the former even work?
>Actually made of it or have small inclusions of it? How would the former even work?
They're made of Swedish Artic Moose poop, which is apparently very dry and woody due to the mooses heavy diet of saplings and other woody vegetation. It's basically compacted sawdust. It's then pressure cooked and stabilized in a resin, so you're not actually touching poop.
>not actually touching the poop
200+ USD and you don't even get to touch the shit? What is the point then? I can find much cheaper resin dice!
do they still make "precision" dice?
ENTER FUDGE/FATE DICE!
how many + and - are in fudge dice?
Cause it can't be 50/50 otherwise you'd just use a coin.
Two pluses, two minuses and two blanks, you roll four at a time, add pluses together, subtract minuses from the bonus, what results is a number between -4 and +4 which is used as a modifier for your roll.
yeah, 3 results makes sense.
I don't mind weird symbol dice, I don't know why /tg/ hates them so much.
Also you can see the "blank" result in the pic I posted, not that many care about the dice themselves, but Fate gets a decent amount of hate, mostly because of the publishers as far as I can tell. Meanwhile people don't mind Fudge at all which is nice.
I don't mind fudge dice but those designs look gay
No they don't!
Fudge dice aren't bad, you can easily use regular d6s instead.
/tg/ hates Genesys dice (if you don't buy the memes you need to use a chart or phone app, and the "good" and "bad" dice of the same shape have different amounts of symbols) and DCC odd-sided lumpshit you'll never use for anything else.
Genesys dice seem to exemplify both the strengths and weaknesses of custom dice: they actually have a purpose because they do something other than just generate numbers from 1 to n and interact in interesting ways, but you can't just play the game with shit you already have, and they're slightly expensive - or would be if you could buy the fricking things at all.
d12s, but not specifically 2 of them.
There is also pic related.
And a fresh batch was produced a few months ago. They're still available in most places.
> can make a fair d14 based on the same principle the d10 already uses, just with 7 sides per pyramid
> chooses to vomit out a lump of unbalanced shit instead
Who the hell designed those and why aren't they in jail for it yet?
>Who the hell designed those and why aren't they in jail for it yet?
Impact Miniatures mostly. I got three dice by them from a clearance sale. d30 and d24 use standard Catalan solids, just more rounded than usual. My d16 is a abomination that is basically a sphere with flattened sides, as are most of their other non-isohedral dice.
Checked, but being isohedral is all that's required for fair dice. Platonic solids are more obsessed with perfect symmetries than they need to.
This seems like a good place to ask: Has anyone seen some nice red/bone dice with Fleur-de-lys replacing the 6? And/or suggestions for companies that will (relatively inexpensively) create such a thing?
I want to get ~30ish of the things for my Bretonnians.
Who the frick uses dice for games anymore? None of the good games use dice.
besides cards, what are other things beyond dice to use in games?
One day I'll make my own shitbrew
Why the frick would you use cards? The only good systems use a buy-in mechanic to determine who gets to narrate the next portion.
>The only good systems
for example?
Argyle & Crew
looks gay
I'll keep playing FATAL, thanks.
>Why the frick would you use cards?
I don't but it has interesting design space with holding a hand to swap and potentially with the deck thinning out towards having mostly good/bad rolls (assuming you don't shuffle after every pull)
Needs a bag for chit pulling. Also that d12 is looking awfully unrhombic for my tastes
>he uses dice that aren't platonic solids
Embarrassing.
For you, that is.
I like twenty-sided d10s, something about the way icosahedra roll vs pentagonal trapezohedra. So, less fancy I guess?
that are mine and I like them
No, this is exactly what my dice look like. I got 7 sets of this exact kind, but in the 7 colors of the ROYGBIV rainbow, and that's all I need.
These roll great, I just know the feel of a natural 20 in my hand. If this was vegas they'd have kicked me out by now but my players are submissive to the DM beat stick.