Comments on: Dice

By: Gevaudan

Gevaudan — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:47:57 +0000

One of the other players thought he could suck the power from other people’s dice and transfer it to his own. To combat this, I had a dice box that I would say when closed it would transport the dice to the Demiplane of Dice and they would recharge. What can I say, we are nerds.

By: Ameron

Ameron — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:34:36 +0000

@Gevaudan
I can’t argue with that logic, especially if it works. As crazy as some dice rituals are, I’ve found that if something works for you then keep doing it. Don’t worry about statistic, probably or physics. If you can manipulate the karma of your dice, go for it!

By: Gevaudan

Gevaudan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:25:26 +0000

I actually do the opposite of “Show Me a 1″ by always keeping my dice sitting with the highest number showing. The logic is that over time (I have had this set, the only set I use, for almost 17 years), the dice will slowly become heavier on their lower side due to the “settling” of the plastic. Thus, with the lower side heavier, the dice will more often turn up on the highest number. I have never done a statistical study, however, to see if this is actually the case.

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By: Ameron

Ameron — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:12:05 +0000

@Tallyn
Ah, the wacky things gamers do with their dice. I’ll admit, I’ve never heard of this one before, but I can imagine the humour of the situation.

@Tobias Pelzester
We have a “math & science” guy at our table who like to insert his take on reality and probability to all of our dice rituals. We ignore him, keep doing what we’re doing and drive him bananas.

I too have heard of the “Show me a 20″ variant, but it’s been a rare happening in my experience. Do whatever works best for you.

By: Tobias Pelzester

Tobias Pelzester — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:47:53 +0000

I don’t have any particular dice superstitions, although I do like to talk about ‘rolling out the ones’ and the like purely because it gets the scientists at the table really mad to hear me ruining probability like that .

What I did hear though, in contrast to the ‘Show me a 1′ rule, was that instead of leaving it 1 face up, you should leave it 20 face up – that way, the dice will come to be comfortable in that position and want to roll so it lands that way.

By: Tallyn

Tallyn — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:23:34 +0000

Well I always have to stick the d4s on my fourhead. Just press and they hang on. Just dont forget they’re there. One time I was looking all over the table for my d4 with all my friends laughing up a storm.

By: Ameron

Ameron — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:39:32 +0000

@Timeshadows
I saw a lot of “Show me a 1″ at GenCon. I’d be willing to bet that this is one of the more popular dice superstitions. I have seen cases of players rubbing dice on whoever is rolling hot that game. Whatever works.

@ducttapebandit
Hilarious! I’ve seen PCs cringe when a DM uses his “lucky dice” but seeing PC deflate at a die because it’s going to be used to generate random encounters is great.