Dice!

[active_apathy]

This poll is probably most of interest to paper and dice roleplayers, but everyone should play. I'm curious to see just how many dice it's (a)typical for people to own.

Feel free to link or repost this poll in your own journals (by pasting "<lj-poll-1356329>" into an entry where you'd like it to appear), as more data makes the results betterer.

[Poll #1356329]

Comments

[arib.livejournal.com]

That's... a lot of dice you have there.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

It sounds like more than it is; they only take up about a litre of space. :)

[pandoras-closet.livejournal.com]

Ah jeez, I'd have to go get them out and count them. Rough estimate.

[killersmart1.livejournal.com]

Mmm, yummy icon.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

I am not exaggerating. My dicebag weighs more than an infant. I could probably kill someone with it, just by hitting them.

I've only got 114 (plus three Satan! dice, and 24d6 for playing Sixis) within reach. Plus my d4 necklace which is *just* out of reach.

Dice are one of the greatest things in the entire world.

~Sor

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

My original poll options were going to go up to 1000+, so I'm not surprised. :D

They are! And I've got more on order because I decided I wanted particular themed sets for different games (even ones I don't like, hello designated D&D dice), which is partly the reason for the poll.

[djcati.livejournal.com]

I actually have no idea. I used to collect dice (...for no particular reason; I'm weird like that), but I haven't seen them in yeeears and don't know where they even are now. Probably a box.

I do have a set of WoD dice sitting on my bookshelf, though.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Dice collecting is less weird than you think. I hope.

[yamiko.livejournal.com]

That's only including my dice, not my boyfriend's.

[analise.livejournal.com]

A bunch of d10s for use in Munchkin and a couple of nifty-shaped d6s for my Monopoly (millennium version, ooooh) game.

[analise.livejournal.com]

Oh, and a d6 that alison_sky gave me with different facial expressions on the sides supposedly for use in writing to figure out character emotions or something, I forget.

[raze--the-rose.livejournal.com]

I have at least one set of Warhammer die somewhere, plus a few randoms. I may have two Warhammer sets, or I may have less than one, depending on how mixed up they got when I moved out of my old room mate's house a little over a year ago. Yah, that's how often I check them...

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I used to have a Warhammer scatter die I picked up from... somewhere. Wherever random "...this one isn't mine" dice come from. It was good for those "So! Right or left?" moments.

[vulpine137.livejournal.com]

My dice are packed somewhere, so I guessed about the 21-36. I do know I have a set of 7 Call of Cthulhu dice sitting on my desk here. I used to have many more, but they migrated during many moves.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

7 Call of Cthulhu dice- oh. d20 CoC. I forgot it even existed. :)

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

I would have about 80, but mine went missing in one of innumerable moves, and now I just share my girlfriend's. But her dice roll well!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Yay for kindly dice! :D

[kittydesade.livejournal.com]

12 poly sets, at least 3 bricks of d6s, and beyond that it's just pounds and pounds of dice. Melee weapons of dice. I'm not sure how many. Someday if I get really bored I'll count them.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Somehow I knew you'd have many d6s. That somehow may or may not involve Shadowrun.

[blaisepascal]

I stopped seriously collecting dice shortly after I left college. Even so, in my junior year I lost a quart of dice in a move (my entire collection at the time) and I still have about 200 now. I still occasionally lose individual dice.

I have a rule about my collection: Except for d6s, no duplicates. Over time, this made it more and more difficult to keep collecting, as I wasn't sure if I had a particular pattern. This also means that WoD sets are right out (and I have turned them down when offered). A "complete poly set" for me in a pattern is ideally 9 dice: d4, 3d6, d8, d10, d12, d20, and d10*10 (a d10 numbered 10, 20, etc). It doesn't bother me to have only 1d6 in a pattern, but no more than 1 die of any other side in a pattern.

In addition to "standard" dice, I have a miniature (about 1/3rd standard size) poly set, an oversized 3x d20, a d34 (apparently used in the Finnish Lottery, or something like that), a hematite poly set, a pewter poly set, two 2d6 (hollow transparent d6 with a mini d6 inside), and other assorted oddities.

I need to get more dice.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Interesting!

My rules are different: the dice must be pretty, and they must come in sets suitable for a particular game or setting. I may or may not have spent half an hour on the Chessex website selecting a particular pattern for my Serenity RPG dice. (I did.)

The exception to this is Fudge dice, but that's because their inherent coolness makes them prettier than you'd expect for single-coloured opaque dice.

[alien_sunset]

i haven't played since i was in college, and my dice are packed away right now, so my memory may be a little fuzzy...

4 normal poly sets (they were bought together as a set, all the same pattern etc)
enough random polys to make about 3 more sets
a mini poly set
a set of weird 'crystal' shaped polys
enough D10 and D10*10s to kill a vampire... uh, i mean run a WW game where all the players keep forgetting their dice
and the same with D6s (not counting the at least 2 D6 in each poly set)

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Like these? I can't imagine those would work at all well.

[skorpy.livejournal.com]

That I can remember about:
A few board games.
Two sets of polyhedral roleplaying dice. (One of them really big)
A pack of 30-odd dice in a tin for 40K.

On top of that, I own but don't have here about 50-70 assorted polyhedral dice, D6, and extra D10s, for group roleplaying sessions.

[ladyphoenixia.livejournal.com]

We probably have at least a hundred board games of various descriptions in my house, so consequently a whooole lot of d6s, but none others (unless my dad has some in his old D&D stuff). So I selected 'yachtzee' so as not to bias by large numbers of uninteresting dice.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Most people with large numbers of interesting dice have lots of d6s too; the games that use them often like to have you use 15 or so of them at once.

[antrobus178.livejournal.com]

Yup the cube was for the old school Star Wars, percentile dice for CoC, polyhedral sets for DnD and Dead Lands.

Of course, my 24-sided die is the jewel of the collection. I've never seen a game that uses it but it'd be great for determining a random hour of the day!

[mrpyro.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine has a D30; the only thing we've used it for is randomly generating character birthdates (in conjunction with a D12).

[berrybuzz.livejournal.com]

For me it's always been less about how many and more about what they look like/are. I tend to pick up shiny dice and hard to find sets.
I would KILL for a set of WW OWoD Wraith dice!!!! KILL!

I have a series of d6s that is custom to the local game store. They come out with a new one each year. 4 poly sets (all very pretty and shiny IMO). A set of Changeling dice, set of Mage dice, set of Demon dice (only cause they were pretty).

Did I mention I want want want WANT Wraith dice? *hearts Wraith*

And my dice count is wrong. Those are only my RPG gaming dice. Trying to figure out how many dice I have stashed in other board game boxes or munchkin boxes would be hell.

[potatocubed.livejournal.com]

I thought I had some OWoD Wraith dice lying around, and I did! I haven't got the tube they came in any more, but I have the 10d10. They're a sort of marbled grey shiny colour with white numbers - are those the ones you want?

If so, drop your address in a comment on my LJ and then delete it - I'll get the address in my email and chuck the dice your way. No need to kill anybody for them. It's not like I have any special attachment to them, after all.

[ryttu3k.livejournal.com]

The two in the Balderdash box, the twenty-sided one for Scattergories, and a miscellaneous one from fuck knows where.

*is deprived of dice :(*

[panzerwalt.livejournal.com]

i love the icon

[panzerwalt.livejournal.com]

a while back i bought a couple of those pitchers of dice you can get at con. after giving away many of them i still have a large vase full of them. and that's not counting my regular dice or the small box full of d6s for 40k.

i might have a problem.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Only if someone wants you to roll all of them at once. :D

[kestrelct.livejournal.com]

My household (self/boyfriend) has 80 or so dice? Maybe more like 100. Mostly d10s, we play so much WoD. Couple poly sets (heh), a few d6s in Munchkin et al. We have enough d10s for a whole gaming group, mostly.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I'm like that with Fudge dice - I have enough for a whole group. And a second group on the next table. (In fairness, it is unlikely that other players will have Fudge dice of their own.)

[misslynx.livejournal.com]

2 WoD sets of about 10-12 each, one D&D set.

[isolde-deely.livejournal.com]

I have a clear glass lamp filled with assorted dice I no longer use. I have so many (yes I am one of the 500+) I play champions, rolemaster, spycraft, and have played d&d in the past.

I have two sets of the gemstone dice given as gifts.

They make a nice horde :D

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

...so pretty much any system that says "take these dice, these dice, these dice, and those dice, add that die, that die, and six of those ones, and roll them all." :D

[brigidsblest.livejournal.com]

I keep mine in my limited-edition X-Files: Fight the Future lunch box. (Oh gods I am such a geek.)

Oops. I missed two, the 2 6-siders that are each about the size of a grapefruit. Those have to go on a shelf by themselves. 354.

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

I think I may be a little in love with you, or at least with your lunchbox and your dice.

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

I may have miscounted slightly, but it's around the one hundred mark.

I (used to? not sure...) play Warhammer, so.

36D6 are in a box, and are pink. DON'T JUDGE ME.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

For the pink dice, or the playing of Warhammer? :D

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

I consider my diceless state atypical and possibly unnatural, but I haven't got around to fixing it.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

You could still play Amber Diceless. Or Pace. Or borrow from that one person in the group with 400 dice. :)

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

36d6 (black with red pips)
1 plushy red d20 (which would fit in my dicebag if I knew where the cats had put it)
1d100 (white with blue numbers)
10d10 (Gemini purple-red with gold numbers) for Munchkin level counters
2d20 that are golfball-sized (one Sea, one Hurricane)
6d20 that are miscellaneous ones I picked up from various places, including one that resides in my d20 necklace and is not used for gaming.
Polyhedral sets: Gemini green-purple/gold, Gemini blue-steel/white, Lathyrus, Sea, Arctic Camo, Hurricane, a set I think are copper? and a mini set that are a pearly purple. And my Hufflepuff set. Guess what colour they are XD

119, not counting whatever random d6s are in games and stuff around the house.

Due to a gross error of measurement, my dice bag is big enough to hold four times this many, at which point it would be classified a Medium-sized weapon and do, um, several dozen d6 of damage. Only cos that's what's in it.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Do the 'puff dice roll well?

Hooray for dice bags! There is a reason why I know the volume of my dice collection. :D