Magnetic dice

[No brains]

Do magnetic dice exist? I know they would be terrible for actual dice since the poles would probably be under certain numbers, but for a second I thought of them and they seemed cool.

Maybe it would be better to have like a magnetic wall pad and regular metal dice, so you can roll by hucking your dice at a wall and watching them stick.

[Man_Over_Game]

Do magnetic dice exist? I know they would be terrible for actual dice since the poles would probably be under certain numbers, but for a second I thought of them and they seemed cool.

Maybe it would be better to have like a magnetic wall pad and regular metal dice, so you can roll by hucking your dice at a wall and watching them stick.

Yup. Just look them up on Etsy.

Although people are on the same consensus as you are, that the poles would interfere with the randomness of the dice rolls.

Your solution of a metal pad and steel dice would work perfectly.

[No brains]

Yup. Just look them up on Etsy.

Although people are on the same consensus as you are, that the poles would interfere with the randomness of the dice rolls.

Your solution of a metal pad and steel dice would work perfectly.

Thank you! Granted it's a hazard for electronics and would invite all kinds of wear on the pad and dice, I'm glad someone else likes the idea of rolling in a direction other than down!

[Kardwill]

Thank you! Granted it's a hazard for electronics and would invite all kinds of wear on the pad and dice, I'm glad someone else likes the idea of rolling in a direction other than down!

Well, throwing dice at the GM is already an established practice. Might as well make it official by magnetizing the GM screen ^^

[No brains]

Well, throwing dice at the GM is already an established practice. Might as well make it official by magnetizing the GM screen ^^

Maybe this was a bad idea. It's going to lead to escalation when the DM throws steel books. lol

[Resileaf]

Magnetize your ceiling and throw your dices up.

Can't lose your dice under the couch if it's stuck on the ceiling!

[Kardwill]

Throwing metal dice up, with enough force to hit the ceiling? Yeah, what could possibly go wrong ^^

It would be a solution for the 4-sider "caltrop", though

[snowblizz]

Although people are on the same consensus as you are, that the poles would interfere with the randomness of the dice rolls.

Your solution of a metal pad and steel dice would work perfectly.

Would still affect the randomness of the "roll" though. You'd just be throwing dice in the way you want to score.

This is why the bouncing around on the surface is important. Anything that makes it "stick" would interfere with being a "random roll". (In so far ignoring that most players are no where near "casino random" anyway).


In table top gaming we wouldn't really consider it a roll if the dice doens't "bounce" a bit. It'd basically be placing them down. You can get a similar effect when rolling like 40 dice in a go on a small area and suddenly a bunch of them mostly just stack on each other or some such.

[Lord Torath]

Also, how likely are your dice to actually stick to your magnetic pad? If you toss them hard, they will bounce off. If you toss them soft, will they get enough "tumble" to be random?

If you really want to use steel dice and a magnetic "dice box", I'd recommend a tumbling cup (all dice rolled must be tumbled for at least 3 seconds before rolling) and a dice pad on top of your playing surface.

[No brains]

Part of my (silly) idea in the magnetic dice pad and really THROWING the dice was that if you're throwing a die like three feet to make it stick somewhere, the air travel would introduce a level of randomness.

If someone can throw a d20 into a wall and have the 20 always facing them, they deserve it.