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Thread: Got any Dice Questions?
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2020-11-05, 01:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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SPECIAL REQUEST - If you can help with identifying some unknown dice ... noted in this months highlights ...
it would be greatly appreciated ... you can contact me here ... or via email (on my site) if you have info to add
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2020-12-04, 07:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-02-04, 07:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-04-21, 04:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-04-21, 05:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Got any Dice Questions?
Did the circuit dice end up having a really long development time, or did they just sell out really fast before? I swear I remember seeing some with that design years ago, but could never find them for sale.
“Rule is what lies between what is said and what is understood.”~Raja Rudatha, the Spider Prince
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2021-04-22, 06:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-04-22, 04:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Got any Dice Questions?
Actually, I do have a dice question.
There's a player in my group. He rolls a very large number of nat 20s. I KNOW he is cheating. Here's what he does:
He rolls the die in his hand.
He then stops, puts the die at eye level with the 7 facing up.
He then drops the die into his tower.
I have tried duplicating his results with his dice to no avail. I know it's not luck. Can anyone clue me in on how to duplicate his results?
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2021-04-22, 05:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Got any Dice Questions?
Based on rolling the die in his hands, then pausing while looking before rolling, I have a guess how it is weighted. Start by hollowing out the die. Insert a weight into it. Fill the die with a wax or similar that is solid at room temperature, but melts easily. Then seal the die back up. Once this is done, you can vary what the die is weighted to. You use body heat (rolling the die around in your hand) to melt the wax, then let the weight fall to the side you want down (pausing while staring at the die), then roll it. It won't give you the roll every time, but it will give it to you way more than normally. I have no idea why he always goes with the 7, but I assume he has trial and error figured that it works with his dice tower. I would guess that the time that he heats the die in his hand is what you are not duplicating, and it could be in either direction, because if the die is too warm, the weight inside may not end up staying at the bottom. Please let me know if you figure out what he is doing, because if it's something else, I'd like to know other methods.
My own question is, what would be the correct angles to make a fair 24-sided die? My personal campaign uses the shape to demonstrate how different deities interact with each other, with one face of the die representing one deity. I'd like to create a custom die that shows each deity's holy symbol on the appropriate face, but I haven't been able to find one in person to measure the angles. Thanks!Campaigning in my home brewed world for the since spring of 2020 - started a campaign journal to keep track of what is going on a few levels in. It starts here: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/the-ter...report-article
Created an interactive character sheet for sidekicks on Google Sheets - automatic calculations, drop down menus for sidekick type, hopefully everything necessary to run a sidekick: https://tinyurl.com/y6rnyuyc
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2021-04-22, 08:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Got any Dice Questions?
Which icositetrahedon did you have in mind? Wikipedia lists several. The one I have is deltoidal, from The Dice Lab, but I don't have the tools to measure the angles.
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2021-04-22, 08:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Got any Dice Questions?
Campaigning in my home brewed world for the since spring of 2020 - started a campaign journal to keep track of what is going on a few levels in. It starts here: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/the-ter...report-article
Created an interactive character sheet for sidekicks on Google Sheets - automatic calculations, drop down menus for sidekick type, hopefully everything necessary to run a sidekick: https://tinyurl.com/y6rnyuyc
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2021-04-28, 09:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Got any Dice Questions?
It's not enough to know what's facing up. You also need to know the orientation. Which side of the 7 is closest to him? [Another way to think of it is which side that borders the 7 is closest to him.]
But you don't need to figure out how he's doing it. Get the other players (and most especially the DM) to agree with you, and then tell him to stop it. Tell him he cannot roll that way. That the DM will be rolling for him unless he comes up with some method that doesn't give him an unfair advantage.
The method doesn't matter. The unfair advantage matters. If he gets a consistent unfair advantage , I don't care if it's telekinesis, or careful die placement, or melted wax, or a weighted die, or a Limited Wish. He can't have an unfair advantage.
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2021-05-02, 11:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Got any Dice Questions?
Having read all of the replies to this ... I have to agree that the die sounds like it is weighted ... make him do a salt water float test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI3N4Qg-JZM
If the die is too heavy to float ... then do a spin test ... Sorry I dont have a video for this ... but ... what you do is choose one of the two vertices where the 20 / 1 is on the side ... and spin the die ... if it is unbalanced ... you will easily see the wobble
As to 20 sided dice shapes ... I am not clear to which forms you are referring ... perhaps this could help?
http://www.dicecollector.com/DICEINF..._HAVE.html#D20
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2021-05-03, 02:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-06-03, 04:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-07-03, 03:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-07-04, 12:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Got any Dice Questions?
Out of curiosity, how do the seemingly completely round ones (it seems like they're called Chiasso, the red and blue pair) work? Are they weighted in some way or what?
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2021-07-04, 02:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Got any Dice Questions?
They have an interior cavity the shape of their dual-property solid.
[A cube has six sides and eight points. Its dual-property solid, the octahedron, has six points and eight sides. Similarly, a d12 has 12 sides and 20 points, while a d20 has 12 points and 20 sides. The d4 has 4 sides and 4 points. Its dual property solid is another tetrahedron, upside-down.]
In this cavity is a small weight. That weight wants to fall as low as possible, and so winds up in one of the points. The side associated with this point is therefore on the table, and the opposite side is facing up.
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2021-07-04, 03:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-07-18, 09:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Got any Dice Questions?
Jay R is correct
Imagine it this way ... on the inside of the sphere that is a 6 sided die is a heavy ball ... and the inside of the spherical shell have 6 dimples / cavities each opposite a numbered side on the outside of the sphere
When you roll it ... the weight comes to rest in one of the dimples ... causing the die to have an up facing number :)Last edited by Kevin_Cook; 2021-07-18 at 09:37 PM.
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2021-08-04, 09:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-08-04, 09:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Got any Dice Questions?
Personally, I haven't got into wooden dice at all, but there's something cool about those "pill" d4's with tree grain.
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2021-08-04, 10:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-08-05, 08:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Got any Dice Questions?
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4d4 made of wood ninja dice trained by an old wooden d4 almost falling apart. fight against hordes of plastic ones designed to injure. They are led by a metal d4 who calls himself shredder. Their band is called The Foot. The old wooden d4 is master splinter...
Teenage mutant ninja dice.
Edit: Yes, I realize how terrible this is.Last edited by Calthropstu; 2021-08-05 at 08:48 AM.
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2021-08-05, 10:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-08-06, 08:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Got any Dice Questions?
Have you heard of/do you have this 7-dice-in-one monstrosity?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H2gm80y1uGQ
What do you think of it? Is it actually in any way balanced?
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2021-08-06, 11:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Got any Dice Questions?
If it's made well, it should be balanced. It's just a d120 marked funny. 120 divides evenly by 4, 6, 8 10. 12, and 20, so:
for a d4, there are 30 sides that give each possible result from 1 to 4,
for a d6, there are 20 sides that give each possible result from 1 to 6,
for a d8, there are 15 sides that give each possible result from 1 to 8,
for a d10, there are 12 sides that give each possible result from 1 to 10,
for a d12, there are 10 sides that give each possible result from 1 to 12, and
for a d20, there are 6 sides that give each possible result from 1 to 20.Last edited by Jay R; 2021-08-06 at 11:09 PM.
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2021-08-07, 08:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Got any Dice Questions?
Yes .... I am aware of the project and am working with the designer (Len) with suggestions
What do you think of it? Is it actually in any way balanced?
http://dicecollector.com/images/larg...7935f7010d.jpgLast edited by Kevin_Cook; 2021-08-07 at 08:09 AM.