heh dices... my kind of thing [img]tongue.gif[/img]

the d4 is shaded like a tetrahedron (the 3 sided pyramid as Jaradu showed before. Theres different ways of reading it, it all depends on the dice you have in front of you. there are 2 mayor types of d4's the ones with the numbers on the bottom and the ones with the numbers on top

http://members.chello.nl/h.janssen63...n/image010.jpg

http://www.kaejae-worx.com/~don/dice...hite_black.jpg

d6's are normal cubes, and obviously the most commen type of dice

d8's are Octahedrons

d12's are Dodecahedrons and my personal favorites :D

d20's are Isocahedrons and most oftenly used in PnP DnD

then theres loads of odd sided dice (the previous 5 are the 5 only perfectly symmetrical regular solids there exist)

like the d10 and the d100 (also called the d%) for the d100 you need 2 dice as shown above

and recently one company has started producing a very special d100
http://www.kaejae-worx.com/~don/dice...d100_black.jpg

last but not least i wanted to show you the infamous d3 (with very weird numbers on them but thats not my fault [img]tongue.gif[/img] )

http://members.chello.nl/h.janssen63...n/image003.jpg

I got these pictures off
http://members.chello.nl/h.janssen63/ and
http://www.kaejae-worx.com/~don/dice/index.htm


both are sites with huge dice collections. check them out if you wanna see more (like the d5, d7 and the d24)

also a very usefull site with one of the biggest collections in the world is

http://www.dicecollector.com/

edit: sorry if the text might seem odd with the pictures, but one site i wanted to use didnt redirect pictures the way i wanted them to. sorry for that, but I'm sure you can figure it out [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 07-18-2004, 05:58 AM: Message edited by: Rikard T'Aranaxz ]

Ah, thanks Rikard. That's cleared up a lot of things [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

About the d100 - is it sometimes hard to tell which one is facing up? With so many sides, it would be almost a sphere and I was wondering if it is difficult to tell which specific side is facing upwards.

And... could you describe what happens with that strange d100 you posted there?

i dont own a d100 unfortunatly coz i cant find any, what i do know is that they are reasonably big (not huge) and they are appearently quite easily readable (says the producer so that statement is somewhat questionable [img]tongue.gif[/img] )

[ 07-18-2004, 06:03 AM: Message edited by: Rikard T'Aranaxz ]

d4's hurt the most when you step on them.

A D3 could look like:

http://www.caerphillycastle.org/taco...3sideddice.gif

Rather than being angular, all of the sides/edges should be rounded so the die only rolls along the one axis.

Like my l337 MS Paint skillz?

[ 07-18-2004, 11:16 AM: Message edited by: Dace De'Briago ]

http://members.chello.nl/h.janssen63...n/image014.jpg less paintfull d4 [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Thats essentially what my D3 looks like, only witout the 4 ;)

Note the rounded corners that I mentioned :)

<<< Genuis


n.b. That was deliberate. Cheer up kids :D

Why not just use a cube with two of every number??? ???????? ??????????? ???????????????????????? ?????????? ???????????? ??????????

whats the fun in that ¬_¬

A d100 looks and rolls like a golf ball. I've heard of d30s being used. A d7 would be just a d8, roll again if an 8 comes up. A d5 is just d10/2, as a d3 is d6/2.

p.s. check out the graphic below my nick for how D&D dice look

[ 07-18-2004, 09:32 PM: Message edited by: DBear ]