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

[potatocubed.livejournal.com]

Man, and I thought I had a lot of dice. (I estimate 50-odd but on reflection it turns out it's going to be 70+)

That's 20d10 for playing Exalted and/or 7th Sea, 36d6 from one of those blocks, 8d20 because I can't find a consistently lucky one, dammit*, only 2d12, a double-d3 which I was rolling as a d6 for at least two sessions, my BIG D6 for Traveller, Star Wars d6, and other games where one d6 is more important than the others, and assorted others of various shapes and colours.

People I game with top out at 20-odd. (Three sets of polyhedrals and a couple of spares.)

*Except the yellow one which I gave to one of my exes because she thought it was pretty. The things I do for love. =P

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

It's pretty rare to need more than 2d12 for anything, though. And it's perfect for something like an overdone combat monster in Sovereign Stone or Serenity.

I do not understand these people you game with. I feel weird turning up to the table with less than a hundred dice, including ones that cannot possibly be used for the game I'm meant to be playing, just in case. (This may be why I've taken to also carrying around a second, simpler game, just in case the normal game can't go ahead. It makes me feel more prepared and less like an addict. :D)

[potatocubed.livejournal.com]

That's the thing about being the eternal GM - so long as I'm about, the game can always go ahead. =P

Most of my gaming group have played nothing other than D&D, so they never need more than one of any die except d6s, d4s (for magic missile and nothing much else) and sometimes d10s. One of my many pet projects is to break them of this habit.

Plus, d12s are the most aesthetically appealing dice. I have one purple one and one teal one, which clash terribly together but otherwise look great.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I wish you luck with this project. Maybe if you try something very, very rules-light with them?

Something like Pace might be useful for that - you could play a familiar kind of setting, but with the idea that failure isn't always bad (and pays with awesome later).

[sola.livejournal.com]

To be fair, i haven't been able to find my dice bag in almost two years. Then again, i haven't needed it; Heroes rolling is so complicated, the DM does it for us. I just borrow one for initiative.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I've never played Heroes. What do they do to make resolution so tricksy?

[sanityangel.livejournal.com]

i;m guesstimating, BF owns dice, and so do I...we have a small cardboard box full of them.

[raoin.livejournal.com]

alas, i am at work and my dice bag is nowhere near me (all i've got is the set i use for rolling up new NPCs) otherwise i'd give you a real count.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

It amuses me some that you take dice to work for NPC rolling. :)

[raoin.livejournal.com]

i have a very flexible job and so i can plan campaigns in between doing work. it only makes sense to have all the tools i might need with me... :)

[misskitty-79.livejournal.com]

I have a habit of losing my dice & having to MAKE them with origami (http://www.origami-club.com/fun/dice/dice/index.htm), so... really? I've got the potential for THOUSANDS of 'em!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Mm, possibly, but I'll be more impressed when I see a 20-sided origami die. :D

[misskitty-79.livejournal.com]

It's not mine & it's not technically a die, but it's still an icosahedron & it even comes with instructions (http://ceciliacotton.ca/origami/) (below the image on that page)!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

...I had no idea such paper-folding cleverness even existed.

[potatocubed.livejournal.com]

Heh heh. Google image search for 'origami dragon'. It's enough to make you give up on anything more complex than a paper plane.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

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[tamerterra.livejournal.com]

4: D6, D8, D10, D20 - the ones I need for the D&D game I'm playing in. ^_^