Your Dice

[chaosyoshimage]

1. 19, male, ?American?
2. Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game
3. 10-20
4. Mostly six sided, but I have some other ones that came with a Dungeons and Dragons Starter Set.
5. The strangest I can think of is a three sided die that came with the aforemention D&D set.
6. In a box or just keep them around.
7. No, not really.
8. N/A
9. N/A
10. I?ve just stacked them in a tower, never a pyramid.
11. Sometimes I?ll roll a whole bunch and then yell ?Snake eyes!? despite the result, sometimes it?ll even have dice without numbers used for other games.

 

[Afterglow]

Thank you all who have replied. I have a lot of reading and mulling over to do regarding your answers. Also, keep them coming!

Soo, theres a 100% change of success? Cool, I wonder if there is a casino game using those dice...

Probably not. Also, there is the Gömböc that is technically a d1 or a "monostatic polytope"

 

[MorphingDragon]

Im sorry, little offtopic BUT I MUST ASK.

one-sided dice, 100-sided dice and dice made of metals, for some examples.

What is a one-sided dice. I googled it and got no results...

I'm not surprised. It is a kind of novelty die. Basically a ball with a single pip painted on.

I am about to mess with your reality.

A curve can be represented as an infinite amount of infinitely small straight line, so a spherical die is actually an infinitely faceted die with infinitely small triangles.

 

[PH3NOmenon]

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?

25, male, western european

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.

Tabletop RPGs (D&D, shadowrun, ...) and tabletop games (Formula D, warhammer, ...)

3. Roughly how many dice do you own?

About a hundred.

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

Mostly 6 sided, as Shadowrun uses D6's exclusively, but the other D&D standards do abound. (d4, d8, d10, d12)

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.

I gifted my girlfriend a small, sterling silver D20 on a necklace. And I have a couple of oversized and miniature d20's.

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

D6's in a box, cause there's loads of them. The other ones are chucked together in a felt bag which never leaves my gaming materials.

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

I have a couple "lucky dice", but that's not so much superstition as it is a suspicion that they're poorly weighted and therefore produce more natural 20's than randomness would dictate.

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

You don't, and I don't believe in that "nobody uses my dice but me." thingy either.

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

If you have handfuls of D6's on your gaming table and horribly slow players, it becomes to tempting to start building away... Too bad that building archways with d6's is too hard.

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

Look up "The Dice Man" by Luke Rhinehart. It concerns psychology and dice, it's good stuff.

 

[Lizardon]

1. 18, male, Australian
2. Only Dungeons and Dragons
3. 11
4. I have 20, 12, 10, 8, 6 and 4 sided dice
5. Nothing special However I am intrigued by one sided dice
6. In a drawstring pouch
7. No superstitions, I understand chance and probability
8. N/A
9. N/A
10. Around 8-10 high, nothing creative
11. It annoys me when people get superstitious with their dice. Like when they say things like "This one has run out of luck". It just gets on my nerves.

 

[Afterglow]

Im sorry, little offtopic BUT I MUST ASK.

one-sided dice, 100-sided dice and dice made of metals, for some examples.

What is a one-sided dice. I googled it and got no results...

I'm not surprised. It is a kind of novelty die. Basically a ball with a single pip painted on.

I am about to mess with your reality.

A curve can be represented as an infinite amount of infinitely small straight line, so a spherical die is actually an infinitely faceted die with infinitely small triangles.

True, true, but those triangles don't have a pip, now do they? No, didn't think so. It doesn't count if there isn't a pip (or number)

However, I am now going to say I rolled [number] & 267898/(Infinity/6) whenever I roll my spherical six-sided die.

 

[StormShaun]

1. 16 Australian Male.
2. RP's, D&D, personal quote and good luck charm.
3. Nine a the moment.
4. I have the most common kinds. (6, 4, 3, 100, etc)
5. I have 5 strange die that came from the Witcher 2 collectors Ed.
6. The Witcher 2 Collectors Ed Die bag, with chain around it so it can be a neckless.
7. No, not really.
8. N/A
9. N/A
10. Ugh, a couple of Cms.
11. I have been a dice fan for a long time, long after since I have played D&D with my best friend.

I use them for charm and in my quote. "No Dice!"

 

[Kermi]

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?
28, male, Australian (caucasian).

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 RPGs, primarily World of Darkness such as Vampire the MAsquerade, Hunter: the Reckoning, etc.

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

4. Are you dice only six-sided or do you own other forms?
I only have 6-sided dice for the board games I own, the rest are 10-sided.

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, my dice are the typical plastic in a variety of colours.

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

7. Do you have any superstitions concerning your dice? This would include always having the highest number face up and jinxing.
Ten (half) of my dice are a marbled white/grey with black numbers. No one touches these but me.

8. If so, how does it work? For example, how does one jinx dice?
I don't honestly believe the dice will be jinxed if I let others use them, I just prefer to keep them to myself. I might believe that if my friends handle my dice and I then get bad rolls that they jinxed them, but I would just be justifying a coincidence with confirmation bias.

9. Do you have any good advice to "un-jinx" dice that have suffered that terrible fate?
I have been known to repeatedly roll my dice until they "feel" right, if I am concerned they are somehow wrong.

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

11. Any comments on your dice in particular or dice in general you would like to add?
Not really.

 

[BabySinclair]

1. 20's
2. Table-top and pen-and-paper games; D&D (3, 3.5, Pathfinder, 4), Munchkin, Risk; D&D sees the most use
3. Around 40
4. Trigonal pyramidal d4, d8, d12, d10, d20
5. Standard ones, no unusal makes or materials
6. In the boxes they came in
7. One set is only to be used for DM'ing, the dice vary each day and multiple throws of the d20 must be made to determine the best set
8. Dice jinx themselves and must be given time to reset
9. Give them time, so always carry an extra set
10. Single stack of two dice boxes (1d4, 1d6, 1d8, 2d10, 1d12, 1d20 each) excluding the 2d4. Almost have completed the full stack of 2d4, 2d6, 2d8, 4d10, 2d12, and 2d20, will likely do so within the month
11. d20's hurt when hit in the head by a flying one

For those saying it is impossible to stack two sets of dice, both d4's must be places diagonally on a d6 for them to stay

 

[Zantos]

1. 21, male, English

2. Role playing. Mostly 40k Dark Heresy. Also a few for dice poker.

3. 15

4. 10d10s and 5 6-sided

5. No, only standard plastic d10s and 6 sided

6. Plastic bag for most, lucky 2d10s I keep in my pocket

7. We have the lucky 2d10s and the warm dice

8. Everyone in the group has the lucky 2d10s. They were the worst set to use in your first gaming session, so now they've rolled out all their bad rolls. The warm dice thing was started recently, if dice give bad rolls we microwave them into behaving (or possibly to melt them so they weight down).

9. Let them roll out their bad rolls on minor enemies, so you'll get all the good rolls on the bosses.

10. We managed to stack 4d10s together once, it collapsed before the 5th got put on.

11. Dice dislike humans for throwing them around, so they will bide their time and wait. Then the moment the space marine starts charging, it's guaranteed half the guns will jam and someone will accidentally summon a demon. Because the little bits of plastic hate us.

 

[Simon Pettersson]

1. 23 male Swedish
2. Well PnP and Tabletop games
3. 5-6 will get more soon haven´t had any real use for more for now.
4. I own 4,6,10,20,100
5. not really, well the D4 is a pyramid ...
6. In a box where they came
7. No don´t belive in superstition
8. Invalid
9. Invalid
10. Ehm don´t make any ...
11. No just that your free to use my name if you want to.

 

[Gamblerjoe]

Im sorry, little offtopic BUT I MUST ASK.

one-sided dice, 100-sided dice and dice made of metals, for some examples.

What is a one-sided dice. I googled it and got no results...

ah, the ole d1. its when you drop a marble on the table, wait for it to stop rolling, then look up and in a disappointed voice say "I rolled a natural 1." A spin off of that is when you cant fail on a skill check, even on a 1, so you roll the d1 and say "I pass."


1. 20's
2. DnD, or more specifically, Pathfinder.
3. I own many random dice. Most of the dice Iv purchased have found their way into communal dice bins, and been replaced by random handfulls.
4. I have standard DnD dice. d4's, d6's, d8's, d12's, d20's, and percentile dice.
5. I have an over-sided d20 with letters. I think its from Scategories. I call it "the random name generator."
6. I keep my dice in a Bacardi Reserve bag.
7 & 8. Nope. I have a friend who doesn't let anyone touch his dice tough. Bad juju I guess. If the DM touches his dice, its the touch of death, and the die can not be salvaged.
9. Im not sure what he does to unjinx his dice.
10. Nothing special. sometimes I stack random dice like a totem pole until it topples.
11. I like to buy a new set when I roll a new character. I only have one in tact set atm. I got red dice for my blaster sorc, purple dice for my bard, yellow dice for my beguiler, and blue/gray dice for my "hunter of mythical beasts." Whenever it was time to roll treasure I would use the yellow percentile dice. I would give them to the luckiest roller of our group and say "time to beguile up some treasure." I suppose that is a superstition, but to me it was more of a tradition.

 

[Hoopybees]

1. 22, Female, Scottish.
2. Tabletop gaming. I've mainly used them for D&D so far.
3. I think I've got about twenty.
4. I have a set of 4-20 sided dice and also have a handful of d6.
5. I have a Magic the Gathering life-die which has the numbers in different positions from a normal d20 although in my head I tend to keep it seperate from my other dice.
6. I keep the d6's in a tub with my marbles, the others have their own box that they came in.
7. Not a superstition as such but certainly if I'm playing with people I don't know then I have to hold one of my dice in my hand all the time. It's a nervous thing, I feel better if I have something to fidget with.
8. I just roll them slightly under my hand, mostly to hear the tapping sound.
9. Sometimes if I'm being ultra superstitious I whisper to my dice and ask them not to fuck up for me.
10. I have never tried that.
11. I always find it interesting when I show my dice to non-gamers. Even if they don't get any of the other things I do or care about they seem to understand something more tangible and ordinary like that and are willing to concede that, yes, okay, a twenty sided dice is pretty cool.

 

[Wushu Panda]

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.

Im an Archaeology Major too I wrote my Thesis paper on Soapstone Quarry Technology, best of luck to you.

1. 23, male, white USA
2. Dungeons and Dragons, Life keep and counter keeping in Magic The Gathering, numerous board ga: Yahtzee, Betrayal at the House on the Hill, Settlers of Catan, etc.
3. I own abt 20 dice.
4. d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20
5. Unusal Material? no. Unusal shapes? no. dice are based off standard 3-dimensional geometric shapes. Most of my DnD dice I purchased with a specific color pattern, grey with white/black/yellow swirls to help identify my dice from other peoples. And a few MtG dice I have have a symbol of an expansion in place of a "20".
6. I keep them in containers with my MtG cards. The boxes that come with special box sets.
7&8. I havent noticed specific dice becoming jinxed, that usually resides with the individual rolling. If anything Dice are neutral and reflect the luck of the person currently holding it. But to be sure I dont let certain people touch my dice, or if they must use one I only allow them the dice I do not prefer to use often. There was this one guy who seemed to roll more "1" than "20", critically failing more than succeeding so I forbade him from using the 20-siders I used for battles.
9. I personally do not have cures.
10. using a standard 7-dice set and a few extras of those I stacked them to make a 10+ tall tower.
11. I like dice. I like spinning the 20-siders like a top while Im waiting for my turn in DnD battle or my opponent is taking their time playing MtG. Ive also kept one in my backpack as a sort of token in memory of Gary Gygax. Sort of a constant reminder that no one ever knows when they might have to "roll for initiative".

 

[Ieyke]

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?
25, male, Texan

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.
D&D, Godlike, Warhammer 40,000

3. Roughly how many dice do you own?
A lot. 400?

4. Are you dice only six-sided or do you own other forms?
Probably 3/4 of my dice are D6's. The rest is a mix of D4's, D8's, D10's, D00's, D12's, and D20's

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 several different specialized D6's (Scatter dice, Orders dice, 3 Dragon Ante dice), I have 50 custom made Ultramarines D6's, I have a D100, I have a pair of giant wooden D6's, and I have several super tiny black D6's.

6. How do you keep you dice? In a bag, box, etc.?
I have 4 dice bags and a dice box.

7. Do you have any superstitions concerning your dice? This would include always having the highest number face up and jinxing.
Nah. Not really.

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

9. Do you have any good advice to "un-jinx" dice that have suffered that terrible fate?
Sacrifice a red D6 on the alter of the Dice God. I periodically set a red D6 on an anvil and make it explode into dust with a sledgehammer. My black dice appear to roll unreasonably well. Coincidence?

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

11. Any comments on your dice in particular or dice in general you would like to add?
I found a website that makes super badass dice. I think I'm probably gonna buy some more...

 

[BlindedHunter]

1. 18, Male, USA
2. Dungeons and Dragons.
3. Roughly 7. Which is to say a set of exactly 7.
4. D4, D6, D8, D10, D12, D20, and a second D10 to make D% rolls.
5. No, though I have my eye on some beautiful metal (Steampunk) ones, for when I feel like wasting money.
6. They stay in their box, generally.
7. Not really, but see 11.
8. ---
9. "Cleanse it with fire", but that's just because that's fun.
10. Nil. I have made a 13 tall dice tower, though.
11. I find that while I don't have superstitions directly relating to jinxing dice or the way one rolls them (especially because I am quite naturalistic in my views of the world), I find it hard to not feel that numbers a die is giving me are skewed to the lower end. I'm sure they aren't actually, of course, but I tend to eventually put my die away and use a true-randomness number generator to feel better about it. I don't even like to use PRNGs that I write myself.

 

[fenrizz]

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, 24 years old, Norwegian.

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.

Mostly for P&P RPG's.
Most notably World of Darkness, Vampire: The Requiem.

I have thought about playing D&D, but I do not know anyone that plays it.

3. Roughly how many dice do you own?

I'd say about 40.

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

Some d6, but mostly d10's.

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, but I have been thinking about purchasing some made from unusual materials.
Bone, wood or something like that.
Who knows, they might be lucky.

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

The d10'a are kept in the bags they came in.
the others are kept in a miniature WoW Treasure Chest.

Spoiler: WoW Treasure Chest

Spoiler: My favorite set of dice

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

I have some.
I must always be friends with the dice, talk to them and make sure they are comfortable.
One must always apologize to dice that fall on the floor and no one but me is allowed to touch my dice.

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

By not taking care of them.
Not apologizing when they fall on the floor.
Neglecting them, i.e. not talking to them enough.
Letting someone else touch them, though this may be subverted if one asks very nicely, but the dice may not agree.

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

Talk to them, plead with them, beg and promise.
It's important to always follow up on promises though, or else they may contaminate other nearby dice.

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

I line my dice in neat rows.
Sometimes 10'a up, sometimes in ascending or descending order. Never random.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

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?

1) 31, female, American
2) Pathfinder RPG (the reboot/upgrade of D&D 3.5 created by Paizo).
3) about 50 d6, 20 d20s, 10 d4s, a dozen or so d8, 30-40 d10s, and about 8 d12s. About 135 dice total. My spouse owns another 60-80. I own more cause I'm often the DM, and because I inherited a bag of ugly dice from a friend.
4) see above
5) I own a pair of casino dice from Vegas, and two lead d6 made from American Civil War bullets. They don't roll well, so I rarely use them, but they're neat to look at. I also have a d20 necklace.
6) I keep my DM dice in a wooden box, or in a bag if I need to travel. I keep the dice for the character I'm playing in my spouse's game in a bag just for that character. I keep my spare dice in an older, rather beat up dice bag. And I keep a set of travel dice that I don't mind losing in my computer bag.
7) Yes.
8) When I set my dice out, I always put the highest number up. Also, I choose the color of my d20 based on my character's wardrobe (ie my cleric who wears red gets a red d20).
9) If my dice are behaving badly, I switch out for another set, and give the bad dice a "time out" to think about what they've done.
10) I don't really do that. I'm more likely to spin a pair of d20s in my hand when bored.
11) Nothing leaps to mind.

Hope that helps. ^^

 

[WarDialler]

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?
Mid Twenties

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.
D&D, Warhammer 40k, Pathfinder, Call of Cthulu

3. Roughly how many dice do you own?
Around 50

4. Are you dice only six-sided or do you own other forms?
Most types of polyhredral dice

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.
D100, set of hand harved Haematite polyhedral dice, round D6

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

7. Do you have any superstitions concerning your dice? This would include always having the highest number face up and jinxing.
No

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

9. Do you have any good advice to "un-jinx" dice that have suffered that terrible fate?
Washing them in virgin's tears?

10. What is the tallest/most creative dice pyramid you have ever created?
set of 12 D6s stacked up while bored waiting for DM

11. Any comments on your dice in particular or dice in general you would like to add?
Hand-carved haematite dice made from Lake District Haematite are no longer possible as the mine is underwater now. U jelly?