I have switched over to using D&D Beyond for everything except dice rolls. The group I play with are still using pencil and paper and it just felt natural to continue rolling physical dice. I am curious, how many people are using the digital dice over physical dice regularly? I am thinking of going completely digital.
My table plays online, but none of us see each other roll. I think we all use real dice (to spite me collecting the D&D Beyond dice), but I can't promise that.
I play online and use both physical and digital dice, depending on what I feel like and what I'm rolling for. With the upcoming Pixels dice kickstarter, I'm looking forward to being able to roll physical dice into the digital realm!
All my games are online right now, but I use physical dice for one of them since we're using Astral and we all hate the character interface, so it's easier to just roll, the DM trusts us. The other game is in Roll20 so we use their digital rolling. I hate the dice interface here and I pretty much never use it. If I need to roll something I use random.org's random number generator.
My group plays online. We started with everyone rolling physical dice. Then when we moved to Foundry and the 3D "Dice So Nice!" module came out with the awesome dice graphics, one by one each of my players swapped over to digital.
I still resolutely use physical dice and even bought some nicer ones for myself for Xmas a few months back.... NOW GET OFF MY LAWN.
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My group mostly plays on Roll20, and we all prefer to simply roll digitally, especially because Roll20 will automatically do the math for a lot of spells and abilities. That said, I turned on the digital dice, because I like that clackety-clack and the visual.
My group play online; two of my players roll their physical dice, and the other three use either D&D Beyond or the Avrae Discord bot. I usually roll physical dice, but sometimes I’ll use the bot if I’m rolling a LOT or if I need something quick and don’t have physical dice handy.
All my groups have a mixture of digital and physical dice. The same with PC sheets. Depending on the App it is sometimes easier to use the app, other times it quicker to just grab 10 dice.
My groups play online usually with Roll20. With the beyond20 extension, it's just easier to click and have it roll. it does majority of the math for you and is far quicker.
My groups play online usually with Roll20. With the beyond20 extension, it's just easier to click and have it roll. it does majority of the math for you and is far quicker.
Physical dice are fun to roll. I like to use physical dice for dramatic effect, like my players can clearly hear the roll on the table and they know something is going on.
For digital dice, I use Beyond's and Google's. Beyond's is really nice looking and flashy, but it can slow my browser down. Google's is nice for rolling en masse, as it is fast.
Physical dice and Google's dice are my workhorse dice. I actually do not use Beyond's dice a lot for D&D, mostly since it slows down my computer. My phone can handle it fine (as long as it is no too many dice), but when I GM, I am looking at the database rather than my party's character sheet, so I default to Google's dice since it gives me results immediately, and you know, since my players cannot hear or see it, I can easily just fudge the results if necessary.
My group is still playing face to face (easy when only one member doesn't LIVE in this house, lol) so generally, the players all use digital dice and the DM uses physical. I had considered using physical, but realized at times, my rolls might "change" to either give my monsters a bit of an edge, or to NOT TPK them, lol. In either case, not letting the players always see the rolls worked best for us.
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Any news on whether the DnD Beyond app supports Pixels Dice yet? I was thinking of getting a set as a gift but all I can find are old references to it being in the works
Any news on whether the DnD Beyond app supports Pixels Dice yet? I was thinking of getting a set as a gift but all I can find are old references to it being in the works
Considering the pixel dice are still in early development and haven't even gone into production (the dev d20s haven't even gone out yet) there's little to no word on any kind of pixel connectivity with any service.
We got clockwork dice. I still want Modron dice, though. Now that WotC's in the picture, maybe they can make it happen now!
(Not an easy ask, but an ask all the same.)
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
I already did a while back in the dice ideas forum when digital dice came out of beta. If it's not already on the list, I don't wanna pester the team. Maybe I can encourage others to pester them, though.😜
They already look like dice (except the monodrone and pentadrone). I'm sure there are octodrones, decadrones, dodecadrones, and mighty icasodrones that we haven't seen in the sources. I figure Wizards are the best people to officially sanction them.
Digital dice is pretty much the only way to have Modron dice.
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
Any news on whether the DnD Beyond app supports Pixels Dice yet? I was thinking of getting a set as a gift but all I can find are old references to it being in the works
Considering the pixel dice are still in early development and haven't even gone into production (the dev d20s haven't even gone out yet) there's little to no word on any kind of pixel connectivity with any service.
(Looks longingly at his pixel dice pledge)
I know this thread is fairly old but with the pixel pledges being fulfilled soon has anyone heard any news on the intergration
Our group uses digital, either via Beyond itself or Talespire's dice system. It's faster, links directly into a bunch of things, and everyone can see the rolls (not that anyone distrusts each other, it's just nice to be able to see).
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I have switched over to using D&D Beyond for everything except dice rolls. The group I play with are still using pencil and paper and it just felt natural to continue rolling physical dice. I am curious, how many people are using the digital dice over physical dice regularly? I am thinking of going completely digital.
My table plays online, but none of us see each other roll. I think we all use real dice (to spite me collecting the D&D Beyond dice), but I can't promise that.
I play online and use both physical and digital dice, depending on what I feel like and what I'm rolling for. With the upcoming Pixels dice kickstarter, I'm looking forward to being able to roll physical dice into the digital realm!
Find my D&D Beyond articles here
All my games are online right now, but I use physical dice for one of them since we're using Astral and we all hate the character interface, so it's easier to just roll, the DM trusts us. The other game is in Roll20 so we use their digital rolling. I hate the dice interface here and I pretty much never use it. If I need to roll something I use random.org's random number generator.
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My group plays online. We started with everyone rolling physical dice. Then when we moved to Foundry and the 3D "Dice So Nice!" module came out with the awesome dice graphics, one by one each of my players swapped over to digital.
I still resolutely use physical dice and even bought some nicer ones for myself for Xmas a few months back.... NOW GET OFF MY LAWN.
WOTC lies. We know that WOTC lies. WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. We know that WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. And still they lie.
Because of the above (a paraphrase from Orwell) I no longer post to the forums -- PM me if you need help or anything.
My group mostly plays on Roll20, and we all prefer to simply roll digitally, especially because Roll20 will automatically do the math for a lot of spells and abilities. That said, I turned on the digital dice, because I like that clackety-clack and the visual.
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My group play online; two of my players roll their physical dice, and the other three use either D&D Beyond or the Avrae Discord bot. I usually roll physical dice, but sometimes I’ll use the bot if I’m rolling a LOT or if I need something quick and don’t have physical dice handy.
All my groups have a mixture of digital and physical dice. The same with PC sheets. Depending on the App it is sometimes easier to use the app, other times it quicker to just grab 10 dice.
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My groups play online usually with Roll20. With the beyond20 extension, it's just easier to click and have it roll. it does majority of the math for you and is far quicker.
Ditto
I use both.
Physical dice are fun to roll. I like to use physical dice for dramatic effect, like my players can clearly hear the roll on the table and they know something is going on.
For digital dice, I use Beyond's and Google's. Beyond's is really nice looking and flashy, but it can slow my browser down. Google's is nice for rolling en masse, as it is fast.
Physical dice and Google's dice are my workhorse dice. I actually do not use Beyond's dice a lot for D&D, mostly since it slows down my computer. My phone can handle it fine (as long as it is no too many dice), but when I GM, I am looking at the database rather than my party's character sheet, so I default to Google's dice since it gives me results immediately, and you know, since my players cannot hear or see it, I can easily just fudge the results if necessary.
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My group is still playing face to face (easy when only one member doesn't LIVE in this house, lol) so generally, the players all use digital dice and the DM uses physical. I had considered using physical, but realized at times, my rolls might "change" to either give my monsters a bit of an edge, or to NOT TPK them, lol. In either case, not letting the players always see the rolls worked best for us.
Talk to your Players. Talk to your DM. If more people used this advice, there would be 24.74% fewer threads on Tactics, Rules and DM discussions.
Any news on whether the DnD Beyond app supports Pixels Dice yet? I was thinking of getting a set as a gift but all I can find are old references to it being in the works
Considering the pixel dice are still in early development and haven't even gone into production (the dev d20s haven't even gone out yet) there's little to no word on any kind of pixel connectivity with any service.
(Looks longingly at his pixel dice pledge)
Find my D&D Beyond articles here
We got clockwork dice. I still want Modron dice, though. Now that WotC's in the picture, maybe they can make it happen now!
(Not an easy ask, but an ask all the same.)
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
You probably wanna post this in the feedback forum where it's more likely to be seen/passed along
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I already did a while back in the dice ideas forum when digital dice came out of beta. If it's not already on the list, I don't wanna pester the team. Maybe I can encourage others to pester them, though.😜
They already look like dice (except the monodrone and pentadrone). I'm sure there are octodrones, decadrones, dodecadrones, and mighty icasodrones that we haven't seen in the sources. I figure Wizards are the best people to officially sanction them.
Digital dice is pretty much the only way to have Modron dice.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
I know this thread is fairly old but with the pixel pledges being fulfilled soon has anyone heard any news on the intergration
Our group uses digital, either via Beyond itself or Talespire's dice system. It's faster, links directly into a bunch of things, and everyone can see the rolls (not that anyone distrusts each other, it's just nice to be able to see).
My current games are all on Discord, so we use dicebots. I miss rolling physical dice, though.
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