Dices in PnP

[Rikard T'Aranaxz]

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





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

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


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] )



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 ]

[Jaradu]

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?

[Rikard T'Aranaxz]

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 ]

[krunchyfrogg]

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

[Dace De'Briago]

A D3 could look like:



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 ]

[Rikard T'Aranaxz]

less paintfull d4 [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Dace De'Briago]

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

[Dirty Meg]

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

[Rikard T'Aranaxz]

whats the fun in that ¬_¬

[DBear]

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 ]