Comments on: That Was A Practice Roll!

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:13:12 +0000

See I’m with Hammer on not being bothered by having to roll by dice a few times to get results. On the other hand if a games dice pool is never really going to be more than 10 D10 I’ll quite happily buy them for that game. I’m never likely to have enough games that use anything more than D6 or D10 for large dice pools though.

By: Hammer

Hammer — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:33:45 +0000

I have exactly two D&D sets, and that's it. Never seen why I can't just roll the same dice three or four times to get a total instead of actually having 4D10 or whatever. Hammers last blog post..Thoughts on a Doctor Who Setting

By: Ravyn

Ravyn — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:45:19 +0000

My collection's actually pretty small (particularly since I lost the hand-me-down enormous bag of dice I got from my stepbrother.) The evolution was pretty simple: Two D&D-sets of minis my mother bought me when I started having trouble keeping all my full size dice together and switched down to pockets rather than a fannypack (though I'm still almost short on sixes). Another set of minis I picked up from a friend of mine because she kept losing the small ones and thought I'd do better with them. And of course, the requisite absurd (if diminishing) pile of purple or gray mini d10s I cleaned my FLGS out of after discovering Exalted. Total peaked at about forty-some, all types combined, and has been diminishing due to attrition for a while. Usually, dice happen to people, I think. It's a combination of gifts (friends whom you introduce to exotic dice will often find you more exotic dice, which is how I got my nestled-d10-d100, or the "Singular Dice"), having to replace one die and ending up with a set, dealing with being The Dice Source for your group, and occasionally just getting shiny shock from the random race/class dice, the random initial reaction dice, the crystal dice, the geometrically impossible dice like d5s or d7s, the dice where one face is pirate-themed, the directional dice, the dice in numbering systems that aren't Arabic numerals.... or just buying dice to console oneself for the game one wanted to impulse-buy being out of the budget. Ravyns last blog post..To Lead By Communication

By: Bonemaster

Bonemaster — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:50:15 +0000

I don't think any of start out to have so many dice. We usually start out with a set of dice. Then we lose a few. After that we buy a new set. Slowly, we end up with all the dice in the worlds. Of course there are exceptions to be sure. Like your example player with 80 dice. Bonemasters last blog post..What day is it?