yeah, I have metal set laid out where I'll be rollin for something with a single die, and quite a few sets with all the same numbered dice having the same colour. Makes things easier and quicker.
For Elven Accuracy, I use the metal and two translucent green dice, I like to know that it was elven accuracy that gave me that crit.
I have piles of dice for two main reasons. First I have been playing since the days when the game came with chits because they ran out of dice to put in the boxes, true story, and they just pile up over time. Second I am usually the DM and it is just easier to have piles dice w=for when the players forget t bring them.
I alos collect odd dice. Like phones for teachers with the continents, days of the week, seasons of the year, letters of the alphabet, etc. There are also things like pizza dice with different toppings on each face.
For Call of Cthulhu, I constantly use a special Ten-side Temporary Insanity die. I also frequently use a two-side die shaped like a Tome.
For D&D though, I occasional use a Random Direction die (from Warhammer), but otherwise seldom have a use for non-standard dice. Indeed, as a DM I seldom use anything other than a d20 (thanks to average damage).
I alos collect odd dice. Like phones for teachers with the continents, days of the week, seasons of the year, letters of the alphabet, etc. There are also things like pizza dice with different toppings on each face.
I picked up a Ten Commandments die at GenCon last year. I immediately had one planned use for it...and still have just the one. But it's a cool one.
I alos collect odd dice. Like phones for teachers with the continents, days of the week, seasons of the year, letters of the alphabet, etc. There are also things like pizza dice with different toppings on each face.
I picked up a Ten Commandments die at GenCon last year. I immediately had one planned use for it...and still have just the one. But it's a cool one.
I also picked up d10s in Norwegian :)
Do the Norwegian dice have the words written on the sides, are they just normal dice (but from Norway!), or is there some other difference?
I have a few spindown d20s from playing Magic and find them to be useful for keeping track of arrows or low level hp when away from home and my laptop doesn't want to allow me to use excel and I can't remember my Google password for Sheets.
Otherwise, I'm a fan of the idea of having different color dice represent different things so that I can just roll all of the dice right away. I may change my mind when I get to play a PC, but it's nice for NPCs and enemy creatures for a DM.
I typically roll two sets of dice for my two attacks, one representing the first attack and the second the other attack. I roll damage dice as well with similar color matching. If the attack misses, I remove the dice. If it hits them I’ve already rolled damage. It’s not necessary but there are times when it speeds up gameplay especially if you have stacking effects (ie Eldritch Blast and Hex across multiple attacks).
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yeah, I have metal set laid out where I'll be rollin for something with a single die, and quite a few sets with all the same numbered dice having the same colour. Makes things easier and quicker.
For Elven Accuracy, I use the metal and two translucent green dice, I like to know that it was elven accuracy that gave me that crit.
I have piles of dice for two main reasons. First I have been playing since the days when the game came with chits because they ran out of dice to put in the boxes, true story, and they just pile up over time. Second I am usually the DM and it is just easier to have piles dice w=for when the players forget t bring them.
I alos collect odd dice. Like phones for teachers with the continents, days of the week, seasons of the year, letters of the alphabet, etc. There are also things like pizza dice with different toppings on each face.
For Call of Cthulhu, I constantly use a special Ten-side Temporary Insanity die. I also frequently use a two-side die shaped like a Tome.
For D&D though, I occasional use a Random Direction die (from Warhammer), but otherwise seldom have a use for non-standard dice. Indeed, as a DM I seldom use anything other than a d20 (thanks to average damage).
I picked up a Ten Commandments die at GenCon last year. I immediately had one planned use for it...and still have just the one. But it's a cool one.
I also picked up d10s in Norwegian :)
Looking for new subclasses, spells, magic items, feats, and races? Opinions welcome :)
Do the Norwegian dice have the words written on the sides, are they just normal dice (but from Norway!), or is there some other difference?
I have a few spindown d20s from playing Magic and find them to be useful for keeping track of arrows or low level hp when away from home and my laptop doesn't want to allow me to use excel and I can't remember my Google password for Sheets.
Otherwise, I'm a fan of the idea of having different color dice represent different things so that I can just roll all of the dice right away. I may change my mind when I get to play a PC, but it's nice for NPCs and enemy creatures for a DM.
Norwegian words:
This year I'm going to pick up some Thai, maybe use them to mess with new players here in the States. "Here, roll the wizardry die!"
Koplow is one of my favorite booths to stop at every year.
(Hmmm, pics maybe not showing up...links added)
Looking for new subclasses, spells, magic items, feats, and races? Opinions welcome :)
I typically roll two sets of dice for my two attacks, one representing the first attack and the second the other attack. I roll damage dice as well with similar color matching. If the attack misses, I remove the dice. If it hits them I’ve already rolled damage. It’s not necessary but there are times when it speeds up gameplay especially if you have stacking effects (ie Eldritch Blast and Hex across multiple attacks).