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

[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).