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« Thread Started on Feb 14, 2012, 4:53pm »
6,000 dice arrived today. These will fill our first 1,000 AS&SH sets. They are pointy little buggers, regular caltrops! ;)

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Re: DICE!
« Reply #1 on Feb 14, 2012, 5:20pm »
That picture would only have been better if you had arranged them into a skull... :)
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« Reply #2 on Feb 14, 2012, 5:26pm »
Beautiful. I know it would be unrealistic but I wish it were possible to pick the colour - I'd go for the smokey grey or perhaps the clear. :)
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Re: DICE!
« Reply #3 on Feb 14, 2012, 6:38pm »

Feb 14, 2012, 5:20pm, kesher wrote:
That picture would only have been better if you had arranged them into a skull... :)


...carved into the face of a mountain! :P
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Re: DICE!
« Reply #4 on Feb 14, 2012, 6:42pm »

Feb 14, 2012, 5:26pm, austrodavicus wrote:
Beautiful. I know it would be unrealistic but I wish it were possible to pick the colour - I'd go for the smokey grey or perhaps the clear. :)


I'll see what I can do. I just got them today, and now I see it is only half the shipment! Another box (if the tracking # is to be believed) is scheduled to be here tomorrow. Put it to you this way: I am happy to accommodate, David, if possible. You see, there is not an even distribution of each color. Feel free to remind me when I start to post about being close to shipping. Cheers!
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Re: DICE!
« Reply #5 on Feb 14, 2012, 7:05pm »
I'd prefer you rolled them all at least 20 times and found the best rollers for me... ;)

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Re: DICE!
« Reply #6 on Feb 14, 2012, 7:17pm »

Feb 14, 2012, 7:05pm, mgtremaine wrote:
I'd prefer you rolled them all at least 20 times and found the best rollers for me... ;)

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Re: DICE!
« Reply #7 on Feb 14, 2012, 9:04pm »

Feb 14, 2012, 7:05pm, mgtremaine wrote:
I'd prefer you rolled them all at least 20 times and found the best rollers for me... ;)
Mike, your probability analysis is all wrong. You want him to roll a bunch and then take the ones that rolled worst, not best. Remember that dice on the average should roll all possible numbers with equal probability, so the ones with the best rolls have already used up a bunch of their high rolls. ;)
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Re: DICE!
« Reply #8 on Feb 14, 2012, 9:28pm »

Feb 14, 2012, 9:04pm, Finarvyn wrote:

Feb 14, 2012, 7:05pm, mgtremaine wrote:
I'd prefer you rolled them all at least 20 times and found the best rollers for me... ;)
Mike, your probability analysis is all wrong. You want him to roll a bunch and then take the ones that rolled worst, not best. Remember that dice on the average should roll all possible numbers with equal probability, so the ones with the best rolls have already used up a bunch of their high rolls. ;)


Now that is superior logic at work! Take note, people! ;)
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Re: DICE!
« Reply #9 on Feb 14, 2012, 9:36pm »

Sounds like a case of The gambler's Fallacy to me ::)
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Re: DICE!
« Reply #10 on Feb 14, 2012, 9:39pm »
Ohnoos you are using up their magic. :)

I have several players who do that and must "rest" their dice. Never been one of my issues but I tend to roll lucky. I did volunteer to retire one 20 sider, from the original gamma world box set, that was so warn is was obviously out of round and tended to come up "0" a little much. That and my sword of sharpness my the DM sad. Never make the DM sad, that's my motto.

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Re: DICE!
« Reply #11 on Feb 14, 2012, 10:25pm »

Feb 14, 2012, 6:42pm, Ghul wrote:
I am happy to accommodate, David, if possible...Feel free to remind me when I start to post about being close to shipping.

Thanks Jeff but I was only joking. Hmm, still if you're offering... :)
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Re: DICE!
« Reply #12 on Feb 14, 2012, 10:30pm »

Feb 14, 2012, 9:39pm, mgtremaine wrote:
Ohnoos you are using up their magic. :)

I have several players who do that and must "rest" their dice. Never been one of my issues but I tend to roll lucky. I did volunteer to retire one 20 sider, from the original gamma world box set, that was so warn is was obviously out of round and tended to come up "0" a little much. That and my sword of sharpness my the DM sad. Never make the DM sad, that's my motto.

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I have a player who has this maddening ritual: He must arrange all his dice (and he has a lot of dice) so that they are all set to 1. He believes that he is appeasing the gods of karma in some odd fashion.

But then again, I have my own DM's pre-game ritual. I have one of those massive 20-siders. I use it to make one ominous roll before the game begins. If I roll a 1, it means the players will have a lucky night with the dice. If I roll a 20, someone is doomed to hand me their character sheet by night's end.

What is wrong with us? ???
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Re: DICE!
« Reply #13 on Feb 15, 2012, 12:34am »
I have no dice rituals whatsoever, but it's a fact that I generally roll low as a player but high when I DM. I have no idea why and accept it with complete fatalism.
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Re: DICE!
« Reply #14 on Feb 15, 2012, 4:34pm »
Fantastic, Jeff!

Let me know when you are going to stuff the boxes and I'll bring the boys and myself over to help. We have some experience ;)
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