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« Reply #135 on: <10-07-10/1226:42> »
And Frost... your name wouldn't happen to be IAN by any chance would it? XD

You sound like a kid we know named Ian!

Nope, sorry :D

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« Reply #136 on: <10-07-10/1228:44> »
Don't be! Ian was a favorite of ours. He threw his d6s just as you discribed. Had toi chase his dice after every throw unless someone had great reflexes! ;D
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« Reply #137 on: <10-07-10/1229:44> »
About 30 seconds too late there, Dad.

Ian was the only other person under the age of like... 30... at the local Solaris tournaments (thankfully he was also KIND OF my age, so I wasn't completely left out being 7 or 8 and all). This kid could not ROLL his dice. He had to HURL his dice with all the force his small child body could possibly generate at the table as if it had caused him some great dishonor to his family generations ago. Dice. Went. Everywhere. But. The. Table. Which was annoying, since there was a pretty hard "it must be on the table" rule in place. This kid took forever to roll anything and get'em to stay on the table.

Didn't he BREAK dice once?
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« Reply #138 on: <10-07-10/1235:28> »
Didn't he BREAK dice once?

Hahahaha, I have yet to manage that :D
besides, as said, I only do important rolls like that. Or usually I keep one D6 in reserve that I then throw like that if the others have failed me. Works best with only one die thrown. Multiple D6 I basically let fall from great heights, but that can also become messy, heh.

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« Reply #139 on: <10-07-10/1304:27> »
About 30 seconds too late there, Dad.

Ian was the only other person under the age of like... 30... at the local Solaris tournaments (thankfully he was also KIND OF my age, so I wasn't completely left out being 7 or 8 and all). This kid could not ROLL his dice. He had to HURL his dice with all the force his small child body could possibly generate at the table as if it had caused him some great dishonor to his family generations ago. Dice. Went. Everywhere. But. The. Table. Which was annoying, since there was a pretty hard "it must be on the table" rule in place. This kid took forever to roll anything and get'em to stay on the table.

Didn't he BREAK dice once?

Kid's probly got some anger issues. Lol. Or he's focusing way too hard on his rolling.

I get ticked off pretty fast at people who can't seem to grasp common sense, like not throwing your dice at the table.

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« Reply #140 on: <10-07-10/1339:06> »
No No anger problems just... intense!
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« Reply #141 on: <10-07-10/2054:27> »
Yeah, it was just intensity. Which I think made up for all the... not intense Ian was, considering the dice thing was the only thing I remember about the kid.
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« Reply #142 on: <10-08-10/0931:54> »
Yeah, it was just intensity. Which I think made up for all the... not intense Ian was, considering the dice thing was the only thing I remember about the kid.
You forgot Unlucky? I mean getting Headcapped inthe first round of a Bloodname tourney bits big! :'(
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« Reply #143 on: <10-08-10/1809:05> »
For those who have had the misfortune of having a dice-thrower at the table, my friend Charles has a solution to that problem: oversized solid metal dice. His rule: you throw yours, I throw MINE at you. In an unrelated note, dice throwing incidents at our game store have dropped greatly in the past year...

My only superstition is for others to touch my dice without my permission. I used to think this was juvenile until my friend Jack aka the Master of "One", the Hitless Wonder, and the Pidgeon Slayer (old inside joke because whenever he fired nine times out of ten he missed and we used to say his arrows/bolts hit some passing pidgeon) use my dice when I had to miss a session. Ever sence then, those dice havent rolled squat. Now, touching my dice is done under penalty of pepper spray or stun gun.
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« Reply #144 on: <10-08-10/1922:56> »
Touching a gamer's dice is like touching a man's hat. YOU DO NOT DO IT.

and I didn't remember that about Ian. XD I remember killing YOU first and headcapping someone ELSE as my final shot at that tourney.
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« Reply #145 on: <10-11-10/0807:25> »
Chaotic just picked up a set of 36 black d6 with red pips (Mmmmm black & red, my favorite color). I took all 36 in hand shook 'em up and got 10 6s and 6 1s, tossed the load again and hit 14 times with four 1s, I think I'm going to like these dice... till that first crit glitch! ;D
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« Reply #146 on: <10-11-10/0827:24> »
Are they mini dice or do you have huge hands?  :o I find I tend to luck up peoples dice temporarily when I happen to touch them i.e. pick them up from the floor or my lap. They always roll well for awhile afterwords.
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« Reply #147 on: <10-11-10/0845:45> »
They are about 3/8"ish cube... Big hands too.
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« Reply #148 on: <10-11-10/0950:59> »
They are about 3/8"ish cube

The part of my brain which calculates in metric units just commited suicide by division by zero...
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« Reply #149 on: <10-11-10/0952:43> »
They are about 3/8"ish cube

The part of my brain which calculates in metric units just commited suicide by division by zero...
9.52500 millimeters

 

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