Hey folks, My name is Naveh. I am creating a patent die for DND. The die is 12 sided but displays 36 surfaces (that is the patent :) Do you think 36 images of magic items is something that can be integrated in the game? Or perhaps images of 36 different dragons? any idea or suggestion from you will be much appreciated.
Ok, so to get an idea in my head of what this is (without needing to see it), It's a 12 sided dice with the capacity to show 36 sides, so effectively a clever way of making a d36?
It's not a common size dice, not much is going to use it as standard!
i'm imagining a d12 with each face impressed by a pyramid such that the "up-face" at any time would instead be three faces (which wouldn't be patentable or else a calculus professor in the 1900s would have beat you to it). assuming that's the case, then half the time it will lead to a bit of subjectivity regarding which of the three up-faces you think is being indicated by the roll. complexity to read aside, 36 is a 'semi-perfect number' with good divisors (specifically 2 and 3 and 4, plus others). i love my "triple-fours" die: a d12 with three '1's, three '2's, etc to replicate a d4 in a form that rolls better. i'm not clear on what a d36 solves unless you have a d18 system in mind and no good d18 die mold.
might be fun to color every face a different hue and treat rolls of this like a mood ring for NPCs (but you could probably do the same with a d8 or other). meh? well, i'm trying...
i guess you could expand the wild magic chart and each face could represent a different happening (although you're still just rolling numbers and reading a chart, aren't you?)
rather than triple-faced, if you put a cheap toy compass on each one of the d12 sides then you could fit more than just three things for the up-face needle to point at. again, i'm not sure why anyone would do that unless you were inventing a spell with random forced movement like infestation but also wanted to include z-axis and time dimensions and... huh... that could be interesting...
Hey folks,
My name is Naveh. I am creating a patent die for DND. The die is 12 sided but displays 36 surfaces (that is the patent :)
Do you think 36 images of magic items is something that can be integrated in the game? Or perhaps images of 36 different dragons? any idea or suggestion from you will be much appreciated.
Thank you,
Naveh.
Ok, so to get an idea in my head of what this is (without needing to see it), It's a 12 sided dice with the capacity to show 36 sides, so effectively a clever way of making a d36?
It's not a common size dice, not much is going to use it as standard!
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i'm imagining a d12 with each face impressed by a pyramid such that the "up-face" at any time would instead be three faces (which wouldn't be patentable or else a calculus professor in the 1900s would have beat you to it). assuming that's the case, then half the time it will lead to a bit of subjectivity regarding which of the three up-faces you think is being indicated by the roll. complexity to read aside, 36 is a 'semi-perfect number' with good divisors (specifically 2 and 3 and 4, plus others). i love my "triple-fours" die: a d12 with three '1's, three '2's, etc to replicate a d4 in a form that rolls better. i'm not clear on what a d36 solves unless you have a d18 system in mind and no good d18 die mold.
might be fun to color every face a different hue and treat rolls of this like a mood ring for NPCs (but you could probably do the same with a d8 or other). meh? well, i'm trying...
i guess you could expand the wild magic chart and each face could represent a different happening (although you're still just rolling numbers and reading a chart, aren't you?)
rather than triple-faced, if you put a cheap toy compass on each one of the d12 sides then you could fit more than just three things for the up-face needle to point at. again, i'm not sure why anyone would do that unless you were inventing a spell with random forced movement like infestation but also wanted to include z-axis and time dimensions and... huh... that could be interesting...
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