Not quite sure where to post this, but I was sitting here kind of staring at my D&D shelves and it dawned on me that I seem to have a hidden hobby of collecting dice. It didn't hit me until I consciously stared at my huge plastic bag full, plus the green bag full, the purple bag full, and the 20+ Chessex containers of dice randomly sitting around the room. Maybe it's the rogue in me that's attracted to little shiny things, but wow. Dice!



So I was curious if anyone has any dice tales... How many dice do you all have? Do you have a preferred style or type? Do you have ones you consider lucky? Ever done anything with your dice when you've gotten mad at them (Smash them, throw them out the window, etc.) or retired a die that rolled well?



One guy that used to game with my group used to actually chart the rolls of his dice as though he could logically find a die that rolled more consistantly. Another in our group lost a favorite character and therefore sacrificed the die that missed the roll by freezing it and taking a hammer to it.



Stepping on a d4 hurts. Talk about makeshift caltrops...

I had a set of green percentiles that rolled double-oughts on at least 3 18-strength fighters.  Everybody wanted to use them when they rolled up a character that had 18 strength.  I've still got them, sitting on a shelf somewhere in the back of the house.

Howdy,





Let's see, dice...



1. RP2 Percentile dice, do they exist?



2. I have my retired set of dice, the marbelized, blue, high impact dice that came with my Basic Set in 1981. They sit in a place of honor in my collection.



3. My friend's green dice from his Expert Set were so horribly rounded they had to be retired because we didn't have time to wait around for the die to stop rolling <checking watch>. In their last battle the 20 sider rolled 5 20's in a row and the d6 rolled 12 consecutive 6's for a fireball blast from a level 14 wizard. One of the 20's was against Orcus and the fireball blast, delayed fireball at that, was directed near my paladin character who was surrounded by 30 max hp trolls. The blast did 92 hp of damage, even the trolls that saved were toast! Nothing but smoking trolls left on that battlefield! The paladin's holy sword saved him and he was able to rejoin the rest of his party.



4. Of course, it was that same battle that I rolled a 1 for Bahamut's saving throw vs. the poison sting of Orcus' tail. He died. Oh, the randomness...



5. My brother is a notoriously bad dice roller. In one battle his 4th level ranger character spent 15 rounds fighting a single tasloi in I1 Dwellers of the Forbidden City. The rest of the party had already won the battle in round 10, after a few rounds of watching the ranger, the party magic-user walked over and asked if he could help. Many tears of laughter were shed after that. My brother eventually had his 8 year old son roll his dice for him and that broke his bad rolling streak.





Futures Bright,



Paul

My best d20 is this one I have from when I started playing around 1989, it's crystal clear (transparent even) with black lettering.  Easy to lose, and even went diving in a swimming pool once (man it was HARD to find) while we played on a friends patio.



I still use it to crit people to this day.  :twisted: