I got by with one set until I started DMing. Ever since then, dice make up about 70% of my carbon footprint.
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Ya, well, I have a goblin brain, and I need all the pretty click-clacks.
Okay, you spell hits, now roll 12d6 for damage
That's why you buy a box of 36 small d6.
And then 5e came along and changed half the spells to use d8s instead.
My eyeballs don't do small dice anymore
Wesley Treat made a set that might be more your speed on YouTube.
I assume a piped bot will shortly appear with that link.
You could, ya know, do it yourself FFS. 😘🤷🏼♂️
Good bot.
Heh. 😘
Chessex (and I assume others) also have sets of 12 d6s in the same size boxes as the 7 dice sets usually come in
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Me: *buying dice at the game store.*
Clerk: Sure you only want the one set?
Me: yep! It's got all of the 7 dice I'll ever need for #dnd
Clerk: okay then! *under their breath: "See you soon"*
Me: what?
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Besides damage dice you'll need at minimum two different D20 sets for DnD. One extra so the bad set can sit in Dice Jail™ until it's learned it's lesson.
rolls up to the register with an entire cart full of D6 boxes
"Gonna be playing Shadowrun this weekend."
I'm not into pen and paper rpgs (though i'm curios about them), but if you need a bunch of dice, why not use an app?
If I was going to rob myself of rolling thousand dice, I'd just play video games.
In a nutshell: rolling cool looking dice in a groovy dice tower is just absolutely pleasant.
Indeed.
Storage mode
Disassembled to show all pieces.
Dice tower mode.
I can't swim through an app like Scrooge McDuck in his vault.
RPGs for me are a great way to not look any devices or screens for a few hours. Paper character sheet, physical dice, books and a pencil.
In my case because I want to avoid computers when playing, not increase my usage of them.
But of course that's because I hate computers.
God i wanna get into shadowrun, but I don't want to learn shadowrun
Having learned it: I totally feel you. The books are laid out like shit.
worst part is i'd absolutely be the DM. having read a little of the book i feel like i could just learn whatever role i want to take pretty easily (lets go decker), but keeping everything in my head at once as a dm? a lot less simple
could just learn whatever role i want to take pretty easily (lets go decker)
Lol. Decker is probably the most complicated, confusing thing in the game because of how cyberspace mechanics work, and how it splits between two different combat scenarios when you have other characters in meat space while the decker is in cyberspace. Not just for the players, but especially the DM.
I actually still play 3rd edition, as the introduction of the wireless world in 4th makes this stuff even more confusing.
It comes in lbs? I'm getting one
But you already got one!
When I started DMing I bought a couple of packs on Ebay in order to have color coded dice for my players.
Then when I started playing, I bought myself 2 sets of really nice metal dice from Etsy.
Now I don't have the urge to buy any more dice, because there just is no need.
I have no need for the sheer number of dice I have, but I have desire.
I got my literal gem dice (as in machined form semiprecious stones) because they were gorgeous. The same applies to my dichroic prism dice. I have my metal sets because I just like the feel of them; the heft in the hand and the satisfying *thunk* as they hit the dice tray from out the dice tower. I have several sets of dice because the colours appealed to me. (I tend to give these out to new players as I introduce them.) I have speciality dice (FUDGE/Fate dice, various Chinese dice, etc.) for the times I need them. And in the end it winds up with me having way more dice than I strictly speaking need.
But I regret none of them.
Hey baby, it is time to buy more dices!
Dicorini*
Dice* you heathen. 🤢
Sorry, english is not my native language
Not a worry, it was mostly said in jest 🤗🍻
What's the singular of dice, friend?
"What is the singular form of dice?
'Die' is the singular form of 'dice'. It comes from the French word des, a plural word for the same objects. In English, the most common way to make nouns plural is to add an 's'. If 'die' followed that rule precisely, its plural form would be 'dies', however, English is full of irregular plurals. Along with octopus, fish, goose, wolf, cactus, and appendix, "die" does not follow that rule implicitly. The plural form is 'dice'. If you roll dice, you are rolling two or more game pieces. If you roll a die, you are only using one piece."
It's really as simple as: which sounds correct? "Rolling a die" or "rolling a dice"? 🤷🏼♂️ Anti-intellectualism is no one's friend, friend.
It's dice.
It's die.
It's dice and die. Both are correct depending on who you ask
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/dice
In old-fashioned English, 'dice' was used only as a plural form, and the singular was die, but now 'dice' is used as both the singular and the plural form.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/dice
The singular usage is considered incorrect by many authorities. However, it should be noted that The New Oxford Dictionary of English, Judy Pearsall, Patrick Hanks (1998) states that “In modern standard English, the singular die (rather than dice) is uncommon. Dice is used for both the singular and the plural.”
