Your Dice

[Firefly9007]

1. What is your age (Teens, 20's, 30's, etc. is enough if you don't want to divulge your exact age), sex and nationality?
21, Male, American

2. For what do you most commonly use dice? Role-playing games, tabletop games, gambling games, etc.? Please mention the specific games you use your dice for the most.
Use dice mostly for D&D 3.5, Pathfinder, and Magic the Gathering.

3. Roughly how many dice do you own?
Roughly 80.

4. Are you dice only six-sided or do you own other forms?
Many other forms. d2, d3, d4, d5, d6, d7, d8, d10, d12, d14, d16, d20, d24, and d100.

5. Do you own dice that are unusual in shape or material? These would include andy one-sided dice, 100-sided dice and dice made of metals, for some examples.
I have a full set of glow in the dark dice, a 12 sided die with body parts listed on each face, my d2 is a metal coin with a 1 and a 2 on it, d100 is filled with little metal ball or something to help with balance, and I have many d10s which list 00 though 90 for generating percentages.

6. How do you keep you dice? In a bag, box, etc.?
A crappy old green felt bag I inherited from my dad's DMing days.

7. Do you have any superstitions concerning your dice? This would include always having the highest number face up and jinxing.
Certain dice are most certainly lucky, and resent not being used. Additionally, each d20 only contains a certain number of 20s. These 20s are wasted if rolled when not being rolled for some purpose. A d20 which is out of 20s can be replenished by loaning it to someone else.

8. If so, how does it work? For example, how does one jinx dice?
See above.

9. Do you have any good advice to "un-jinx" dice that have suffered that terrible fate?
See above again.

10. What is the tallest/most creative dice pyramid you have ever created?
They usually fail pretty badly. I tend to build them on unstable surfaces. I've gotten pretty good at spinning dice though.

11. Any comments on your dice in particular or dice in general you would like to add?
I make a habit of buying new dice once a year, and have recently been trying to collect odd ones.

 

[Naeo]

1. 18, male, white.
2. Dice/board games. Five Thousand, Cthulhu Dice, Yahtzee, Monopoly, and so on.
3. About two dozen.
4. No. Most of them are 6-sided, though.
5. I have one d20, a custom d12 for Cthulhu Dice (it's large than a normal d12 and has images on each face, rather than numbers), and a set of 6 d10 dice with roman numerals on them for novelty purposes.
6. On my desk/in a drawer. They're not in a bag/box/etc either way.
7. No.
8. N/A
9. Buy new dice (assuming "terrible fate" means "lost" or "broken" or the like).
10. I don't make dice pyramids, so N/A.
11. I have long thought about collecting odd dice--things like the Cthulhu dice--but have never gotten around to it. Though I've always wanted one of those d100s.

 

[Sum1else]

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1. What is your age (Teens, 20's, 30's, etc. is enough if you don't want to divulge your exact age), sex and nationality?

male, 20ish, american

2. For what do you most commonly use dice? Role-playing games, tabletop games, gambling games, etc.? Please mention the specific games you use your dice for the most.

table top rpg, usually Pathfinder or Tephra, but some gamma wars and other small scale stuff too

3. Roughly how many dice do you own?

22

4. Are you dice only six-sided or do you own other forms?

10d6 3d20 3d12 3d10 1d4 2d8

5. Do you own dice that are unusual in shape or material? These would include any one-sided
dice, 100-sided dice and dice made of metals, for some examples.

theyre all pretty standard dice

6. How do you keep you dice? In a bag, box, etc.?

bag

7. Do you have any superstitions concerning your dice? This would include always having the highest number face up and jinxing.

i feel that each die will end up rolling in a specific pattern, like one rolls tends to roll long streaks of a single number, one tends to roll low, one rolls mostly evens, etc...

8. If so, how does it work? For example, how does one jinx dice?

each die has its pattern, you just learn it and use the one you need

9. Do you have any good advice to "un-jinx" dice that have suffered that terrible fate?

nope, rolling a lot sometimes helps though

10. What is the tallest/most creative dice pyramid you have ever created?

never thought about stacking dice in a pyramid, i do sometimes try and fit them into the shape which has the smallest amount of empty space though

11. Any comments on your dice in particular or dice in general you would like to add?

the d12 needs more love

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

1. What is your age (Teens, 20's, 30's, etc. is enough if you don't want to divulge your exact age), sex and nationality?

23, Guy, Canadian.

2. For what do you most commonly use dice? Role-playing games, tabletop games, gambling games, etc.? Please mention the specific games you use your dice for the most.

My own personal Dice? D&D only.

Although A few guys in high school borrowed them to gamble in class...I was not happy about that at ALL.

3. Roughly how many dice do you own?

One full set. 9 dice. 3 D6, 1 D4, 1 D8, 1 D10, 1 D12, 1 D20, and one D.....uhh...The one with the percentages on it!

4. Are you dice only six-sided or do you own other forms?

See above!

5. Do you own dice that are unusual in shape or material? These would include andy one-sided dice, 100-sided dice and dice made of metals, for some examples.

Umm...no? They're all plastic. Although they ARE a totally awesome see-through yellow color. They're bright and cool looking.

6. How do you keep you dice? In a bag, box, etc.?

In a small bag. Haven't taken them out in YEARS.

7. Do you have any superstitions concerning your dice? This would include always having the highest number face up and jinxing.

Yeah, I'm convinced my D20 hates me. I would ALWAYS get low rolls for anything important, and I just tried rolling it again recently....about 8 rolls, only one roll came up above 10.

8. If so, how does it work? For example, how does one jinx dice?

*shrug* I dunno.

9. Do you have any good advice to "un-jinx" dice that have suffered that terrible fate?

See above

10. What is the tallest/most creative dice pyramid you have ever created?

I managed to stack all nine dice ONCE. It was not easy. I forget the actual arrangement.

11. Any comments on your dice in particular or dice in general you would like to add?

...I like that they're transparent yellow. It makes them look like they glow.

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That's it. Hope that helped!

 

[Rune342]

1. What is your age (Teens, 20's, 30's, etc. is enough if you don't want to divulge your exact age), sex and nationality?
20's, male, American

2. For what do you most commonly use dice? Role-playing games, tabletop games, gambling games, etc.? Please mention the specific games you use your dice for the most.
Usually D&D and Magic the Gathering. D&D mainly, as that's what I bought them for. Magic because my deck uses a lot of counters, and dice make keeping track easy.

3. Roughly how many dice do you own?
Seven, the full D&D set.

4. Are your dice only six-sided or do you own other forms?
Other than 6 sided.

5. Do you own dice that are unusual in shape or material? These would include any one-sided dice, 100-sided dice and dice made of metals, for some examples.
Nope, just the normal set.

6. How do you keep you dice? In a bag, box, etc.?
A wooden box with a bronze latch.

7. Do you have any superstitions concerning your dice? This would include always having the highest number face up and jinxing.
My dice seem to like me more than most people. With the d20, I usually roll 13 or higher, with others rolling any number.

8. If so, how does it work? For example, how does one jinx dice?
See above

9. Do you have any good advice to "un-jinx" dice that have suffered that terrible fate?
A trick that worked for a friend was rolling his dice over and over before a game. That was how he "rolled out the bad rolls".

10. What is the tallest/most creative dice pyramid you have ever created?
I haven't ever tried to stack my dice, so sadly, no creative pyramids for me.

11. Any comments on your dice in particular or dice in general you would like to add?
Well you never asked for a general description, so I'll give that. They are a red and gold mix, with gold text. Similar to these but without the black:

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[Redryhno]

age: 19
Games: DD, Shadowrun, Warhammer, etc., if it uses dice, I play it, except the gambling crap
#Owned: somewhere around 500, give or take
TypeOwned: Any and all, d2's to d1000's(only 2 of those, very hard to justify to people why I want to use them)
DMat:I own plastic, metal, plaster, handcarved bois d'arc and bone.
Transpo.: I keep the ones I play with in a mini-crown royal bag, the rest are scattered around my house in boxes, on the ground, shelves, etc.
Supers:I don't let anyone else roll my dice, if I do, I have to spend a week getting them to like me again, and that's just to keep them from rolling above 1's

 

[Spectral Dragon]

1. Male, 18, Swedish
2. Tabletop, used to play DnD, but lately... Risk and monopoly.
3. Maybe 2 dozen, and don't use them. I've kept old dice from the DnD time.
4. D4 up to D20, the usual range if you have more than a six sided.
5. Blue seethrough ones, but that's it. Plastic, all of them.
6. The bags they came in.
7. No superstisions, just a firm belief in gravity.
8. Only by screwing with the center of gravity.
9. Not really. Shake it good!
10. ... 4 six sided ones. Mostly just roll dice.
11. Nope, not really. Just that most aren't creative when it comes to them. Three sided? Not a problem! Just create!

 

[RachaelIsaacHill]

1. 21, physically female (bi-gendered), white.
2. Tabletop gaming, most often Dungeons and Dragons v. 3.5, Deadlands, and Warhammer 40k.
3.Five or six sets of tabletop gaming dice (Set of seven different dice), 2 sets of Warhammer dice (brick of about 30 6-sided dice)
4. See above
5. I have a set of tabletop dice made from bone, I'm assuming rabbit or some other small mammal.
6. My tabletop dice are all together in a bag, the Warhammer dice are in their original bricks.
7. Only superstition is with dice sets. I usually buy a new set of tabletop dice for a new character, or at least use similar dice for similar characters. My Warhammer dice colors match the army I am using.
8. I don't think dice can really be jinxed, I just like things to look good haha.
9. Not really. Though my boyfriend has a particular d20 that is always used in super-important rolls. It began when someone in our campaign had to roll a natural 20 on a save or instantly die. He took the super d20, rolled it with a proper sendoff of 'jumanji', and rolled the natural 20 to save his life. Needless to say, that one d20 is now lord of the dice.
10. I got about 20 or so of my Warhammer dice in a stack once. It didn't survive long lol.

 

[lovest harding]

1. What is your age (Teens, 20's, 30's, etc. is enough if you don't want to divulge your exact age), sex and nationality?
22. Male. I'm not sure what you want. American? xD

2. For what do you most commonly use dice? Role-playing games, tabletop games, gambling games, etc.? Please mention the specific games you use your dice for the most.
Board games mostly. D&D: Castle Ravenloft specifically (which is like D&D with more structure, hard to describe). I haven't had a real D&D group in a long time (my friend moved away and I used to play with her and her family). Interesting fact, her dad used to play with one of the creators of D&D. They still use an older set of rules too (not sure if its 1 or 2).

3. Roughly how many dice do you own?
20 or so.

4. Are you dice only six-sided or do you own other forms?
I own all the basic D&D dice (from d4 to d20 including a percentage die).

5. Do you own dice that are unusual in shape or material? These would include andy one-sided dice, 100-sided dice and dice made of metals, for some examples.
No.

6. How do you keep you dice? In a bag, box, etc.?
In a bag.

7. Do you have any superstitions concerning your dice? This would include always having the highest number face up and jinxing.
I prefer to use separate dice for each person, even in board games. It feels very weird to me for multiple people to use the same die.

8. If so, how does it work? For example, how does one jinx dice?
I don't have any specific jinx's. I just feel more comfortable (it feels somehow more fair to me for each person to use their own die).

9. Do you have any good advice to "un-jinx" dice that have suffered that terrible fate?
Not really.

10. What is the tallest/most creative dice pyramid you have ever created?
Nothing special. Just a pile of one die on top of another. It was probably 10 dice high. Mostly d6's too.

11. Any comments on your dice in particular or dice in general you would like to add?
I love dice. I roll them just randomly all the time. Not sure why, but it's fun. In fact, I've played video games where I rolled a die to make decisions in-game. I love them that much. xD

 

[FirstPersonWinner]

1: 18
2: Dungeons and Dragons. Also for Magic: the Gathering number counters
3: 15 (two sets of seven and one random that got stuck with one set somewhere)
4: I have 2d4, 3d6, 2d8, 2d10, 2d12, and 2d%
5: No
6: I have the set boxes I bought them in and keep them in those
7: Yes
8: Don't test roll because you will use up your natural 20 rolls. My orange set is blessed by God to murder my party members (I'm DM so that set rolls for monsters). Don't use my friends green set because it was cursed by Satan to get his character killed.
9: Pray to Jesus (May have to do with I'm a Christian and my friend with the Green set is an Athiest. My agnostic/mormon friends all have dice that work normally)
10: Just one set of 7 going up from largest die at the bottom to a d4 point up top.
11: Clear plastic dice (Not the oldschool cut ones) are lame.

 

[trooperpaul]

1. What is your age (Teens, 20's, 30's, etc. is enough if you don't want to divulge your exact age), sex and nationality?
Teens, male, America, United States of.
2. For what do you most commonly use dice? Role-playing games, tabletop games, gambling games, etc.? Please mention the specific games you use your dice for the most.
Role-playing games, Advanced D&D and 3rd Edition
3. Roughly how many dice do you own?
42
4. Are you dice only six-sided or do you own other forms?
d%, d2, d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20.
5. Do you own dice that are unusual in shape or material? These would include any one-sided dice, 100-sided dice and dice made of metals, for some examples.
The aforementioned d%, and a die made from a musketball.
6. How do you keep you dice? In a bag, box, etc.?
I keep them in a mahogany box that I handcrafted.
7. Do you have any superstitions concerning your dice? This would include always having the highest number face up and jinxing.
All dice must be shiny to be lucky.
8. If so, how does it work? For example, how does one jinx dice?
One jinxes dice by letting them become irregular.
9. Do you have any good advice to "un-jinx" dice that have suffered that terrible fate?
Shine them. Sulphiric aid works well, as well as hydrochloric.
10. What is the tallest/most creative dice pyramid you have ever created?
I have not made a dice pyramid.
11. Any comments on your dice in particular or dice in general you would like to add?
I MUST HAVE THE SHINIES!

 

[live2laugh]

1. 20's female, british
2. Pathfinder and warhammer 40k
3. 1 set of standard RPG dice
4. D4, D6, D8, D10, D20
5. no my diece are just really pretty
6. plastic box
7. not really though I do tend to have the highest number facing up when I'm bored, and I don't like people touching my dice
8. don't belive in jinxing dice
9. see above
10. only to stack the one set of dice it really annoys me when playing an RPG and other people are throwing dice around
11. not really

 

[Knusper]

1) 16, Male, British
2) Tabletop
3) 12 'official' 6-sided and LOADS of other of various sizes sitting around
4) I have one d4, d8, d10 and d20
5) nope
6) In a tin, the rest are lying around my room
7) The more you shake, the higher you get. Also if it hits anything along the way, it will get low
8) It just does
9) Nope, bad luck
10) about 5 layers high when waiting for my brother to make his move
11) They're silver (?)

 

[trooper6]

7. Do you have any superstitions concerning your dice? This would include always having the highest number face up and jinxing.
8. If so, how does it work? For example, how does one jinx dice?
9. Do you have any good advice to "un-jinx" dice that have suffered that terrible fate?
10. What is the tallest/most creative dice pyramid you have ever created?
11. Any comments on your dice in particular or dice in general you would like to add?

1. 39, male, US American
2. RPGs. I will play pretty much anything, though I do try to avoid D&D because I don't like it (but sometimes I'm still roped into a D&D game by freinds). I GM primarily GURPS. My second most frequent usage is to work through RPG rules examples for online discussions.
3. currently 75.
4. I own a *lot* of d6s (GURPS player, you see). I own a bunch of d10s (Vampire: The Masquerade). I have two full sets of standard D&D dice (d4, d6, d8, d10 [both single and double digit], d12, d20). I also have a d30.
5. I have some wooden d6s. And a d6 and a d8 in clay. No crazy shapes. Though since I GM GURPS, I have a bunch of relatively small d6s so that I can easily throw 12d6 in four colors all at once and get four rolls from guards or skeletons or what have you.
6. I keep my dice in a Crown Royal bag, of course. Though my brick of d6s I keep in the case, which I then put in the Crown Royal bag.
7. I wouldn't say I have superstitions, but I'd say I have habits. I don't generally mix my colors or sizes of dice. For example, if I have to roll 3d6, it will be all blue dice, or all green dice, or all red dice. I wouldn't roll one blue, one green, and one red die. My tables tend to go with, if it falls off the table, reroll.
Oh wait! I do have a superstition! I read Carl Jung's introduction to the I Ching translation from the 50s where he talks about synchronicity and really effected me. So I have sort of internalized the idea that throwing dice/coins/yarrow/etc at a given moment will represent the truth of that moment. What this means is that 1) I never fudge die rolls, because the dice don't lie, and 2) I don't preroll...because that isn't the moment. I want all rolls to happen at the moment that they need to rather then in advance. So, I don't let players make a roll and then use that roll for whatever roll happens to come up next. Roll in the moment to get a glimpse of the truth of the moment.
8-9. NA
10. Hm...nothing remarkable
11. I've played craps in the past...but I barely remember all the rules. I have had more dice...including the cheapy ones that came with the D&D red box with the wax pencil back in the 80s...but I lost those. So...I've had a lot of dice in my life.

 

[Cpu46]

1. 20 year old male

2. Dungeons and Dragons!

3. Somewhere around 16

4. D4, D6, D8, D10, D12, D20

5. Nope, just normal plastic D&D dice

6. Mass produced red dice bag, Hoping to make my own over the break.

7. If I keep rolling low with a specific die I swap it out.

8. Not very well. I suck at rolling everything but death saves.

9. I wish I did.

10. I just made a dice tower with the six basic D&D die. D4 at the top since you cant stack anything on it.

11. Not really, mine aren't all that interesting.

 

[LoFr3Eq]

1. What is your age (Teens, 20's, 30's, etc. is enough if you don't want to divulge your exact age), sex and nationality?
-20's, male, New Zealand

2. For what do you most commonly use dice? Role-playing games, tabletop games, gambling games, etc.? Please mention the specific games you use your dice for the most.
-Magic the Gathering, and drinking games (3 man is the best)

3. Roughly how many dice do you own?
-5, two D6's, 2 poison counters and a D10 I got from PT Philly

4. Are you dice only six-sided or do you own other forms?
-see above

5. Do you own dice that are unusual in shape or material? These would include andy one-sided dice, 100-sided dice and dice made of metals, for some examples.
-mostly plastic, but the D10 is wooden

6. How do you keep you dice? In a bag, box, etc.?
-in a small satin bag which also contains pokemon damage counters from the first set, an old NZ 20c piece and assorted other flat glass marbles

7. Do you have any superstitions concerning your dice? This would include always having the highest number face up and jinxing.
-No, dice should be completely random and used for randomisation

8. If so, how does it work? For example, how does one jinx dice?

9. Do you have any good advice to "un-jinx" dice that have suffered that terrible fate?
-This is pretty silly, no, you shouldn't have to.

10. What is the tallest/most creative dice pyramid you have ever created?
-na

11. Any comments on your dice in particular or dice in general you would like to add?

 

[Rblade]

1 24, male, Dutch
2 tabletop
3 4 sets of 4,6,8,10,10,12,20 siders
4 see numero 3
5 my buddy has 2 large d20's (like an 3/4 centimeters) in case we need us some big numbers
6 a bag
7 my dice, I roll my dice, you don't, only exceptions being d4's or d6's for big aoe attacks . Not much besides that. besides from always having them highest number up on the table
8 your dice have to get used to you, and rolling high, silly
9 a jinxed die, which rolls more then 1, 1. will get his behind back in the dice bag for the rest of the session
10 dunno, 5 or 6 I guess nothing special
11 dice can get assigned special tasks. My dnd group has a couple of red d6's that used to be for the 2nd edition fireball. And they once rolled an 8d6 43 damage so they earned the right to roll them fireballs

 

[Ranorak]

1. What is your age (Teens, 20's, 30's, etc. is enough if you don't want to divulge your exact age), sex and nationality?
2. For what do you most commonly use dice? Role-playing games, tabletop games, gambling games, etc.? Please mention the specific games you use your dice for the most.
3. Roughly how many dice do you own?
4. Are you dice only six-sided or do you own other forms?
5. Do you own dice that are unusual in shape or material? These would include andy one-sided dice, 100-sided dice and dice made of metals, for some examples.
6. How do you keep you dice? In a bag, box, etc.?
7. Do you have any superstitions concerning your dice? This would include always having the highest number face up and jinxing.
8. If so, how does it work? For example, how does one jinx dice?
9. Do you have any good advice to "un-jinx" dice that have suffered that terrible fate?
10. What is the tallest/most creative dice pyramid you have ever created?
11. Any comments on your dice in particular or dice in general you would like to add?

I'd like to thank all who take the time to answer these questions and help me get a good grade in the course in advance.

1. 20's male dutch
2 DnD 4th edition to be precise.
3. 20-ish
4. I own 2 sets of 7 dice. 4,6,8,10(twice) 12 and 20. And a hand ful of D6
5. I have a large plastic dice that's actually a cd storage box. You press the 1 side and it opens.
6. In a old marble bag.
7. nope, but my friends do, they never want to roll a dice that just rolled high.
8.If the dice just rolled high, they fear it will roll low after that.
9. learn about statistics?
10. D20-D12-D6-D6-D12-D20 not that impressive.
11. Keep on rollin'rollin'rollin'