• @[email protected]
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    638 months ago

    I got by with one set until I started DMing. Ever since then, dice make up about 70% of my carbon footprint.

  • NuraShiny [any]
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    238 months ago

    Under communism, we will have one big dice and everyone will get to roll it.

  • Zagorath
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    208 months ago

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    A screenshot of a Tweet by “castle mac steven” @CastleMacSteven

    Me: *buying dice at the game store.*

    Clerk: Sure you only want the one set?

    Me: yep! It’s got all of the 7 dice I’ll ever need for #dnd

    Clerk: okay then! *under their breath: “See you soon”*

    Me: what?

    Clerk: what?

    Dated: 11:28 AM · 5/28/19 · Twitter for iPhone

    1,415 Retweets 5,777 Likes

  • @[email protected]
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    188 months ago

    Besides damage dice you’ll need at minimum two different D20 sets for DnD. One extra so the bad set can sit in Dice Jail™ until it’s learned it’s lesson.

  • @[email protected]
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    88 months ago

    When I started DMing I bought a couple of packs on Ebay in order to have color coded dice for my players.

    Then when I started playing, I bought myself 2 sets of really nice metal dice from Etsy.

    Now I don’t have the urge to buy any more dice, because there just is no need.

    • I have no need for the sheer number of dice I have, but I have desire.

      I got my literal gem dice (as in machined form semiprecious stones) because they were gorgeous. The same applies to my dichroic prism dice. I have my metal sets because I just like the feel of them; the heft in the hand and the satisfying *thunk* as they hit the dice tray from out the dice tower. I have several sets of dice because the colours appealed to me. (I tend to give these out to new players as I introduce them.) I have speciality dice (FUDGE/Fate dice, various Chinese dice, etc.) for the times I need them. And in the end it winds up with me having way more dice than I strictly speaking need.

      But I regret none of them.

        • Piecemakers
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          48 months ago

          "What is the singular form of dice?

          ‘Die’ is the singular form of ‘dice’. It comes from the French word des, a plural word for the same objects. In English, the most common way to make nouns plural is to add an ‘s’. If ‘die’ followed that rule precisely, its plural form would be ‘dies’, however, English is full of irregular plurals. Along with octopus, fish, goose, wolf, cactus, and appendix, “die” does not follow that rule implicitly. The plural form is ‘dice’. If you roll dice, you are rolling two or more game pieces. If you roll a die, you are only using one piece."

          It’s really as simple as: which sounds correct? “Rolling a die” or “rolling a dice”? 🤷🏼‍♂️ Anti-intellectualism is no one’s friend, friend.