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« Reply #180 on: <11-17-10/1156:06> »
Nice choice for a healer! ::)
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« Reply #181 on: <11-17-10/1202:20> »
It's to go with the whole Repo! thing! XD Nathan's outfit was all black with blue LEDs in his helmet!
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« Reply #182 on: <11-18-10/1613:49> »
for any dice supertition i suggest you go to www.nodwick.com and read the Full Frontal Nerdity comic , try to find the panel with the cursed dice who wont rolled nothing but 1 :)
you will laugh yourself sick


Indeed I did. Thx for the hint to it! ;D
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« Reply #183 on: <11-19-10/0445:36> »
Well there went my afternoon and evening :-\
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« Reply #184 on: <11-20-10/0716:37> »
I haven't read the entire thread but here is mine...

In SR 3...I would roll...pull out the 6's and then roll different dice to get the total. My line of thinking was that those dice had rolled their 6's and could not be counted on to roll high a second time right after that.

I have black and white d6's with white skulls for the 1's...unathorized individuals are not really welcome touching my skull dice. I have plenty of dice to loan out...just not those.

I prefer d10's as a dice type...always bothered me that SR uses d6's.

I do not like d4's, mainly because somebody always drops one on the floor which I will step on the next day.

It's not the one with your name on it; it's the one addressed "to whom it may concern" you've got to think about.

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« Reply #185 on: <11-20-10/0829:28> »
See, now d10s always stood out to me as weird. Must be because of my Math degree. The whole, non-equiangular quadrangle shape of the die face just balks at me among the equiangular faces of the other dies. Now, that don't mean I don't like them, I do, mostly because what they represent to me as a gamer:

d4 - Magic Missiles
d6 - Fireball
d8 - HP
d10 - Magic Items/Treasure
d12 - BARBARIAN SMASH
d20 - Attack!

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« Reply #186 on: <11-20-10/0924:34> »
d6 or d20. End of story. XD I've only really played Battletech (d6) and D&D/Pathfinder (d20). Having any other base is just weird to me.

And that is the nice thing about the crystal d4s. They're not caltrops.
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« Reply #187 on: <11-20-10/1041:18> »
Playing ED was usually with all the dice in store. Now, when Thord Edition hit, d4's and d20's were excluded. And it works a lot, lot better.
And my favorite dice are d6's, because of the sheer re-rolling potential in ED and SW. And Edge-based SR rolls.
None superstitions here, though my dice luck seems a bit extreme sometimes. I once was to be taken in by a DnD group, but they decided they don't want me after i've rolled all 18's on 3d6 character creation... With three different dice sets. That was a once-in-a-lifetime roll, so imagine my dissapointment.
And my Earthdawn GM has too much luck with his dice, to be honest. We're jokingli refferin to him having weave an n-th level Thread in those.
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« Reply #188 on: <11-20-10/1755:41> »
See, now d10s always stood out to me as weird. Must be because of my Math degree. The whole, non-equiangular quadrangle shape of the die face just balks at me among the equiangular faces of the other dies.

Eh. My Math degree leaves me perfectly comfortable with d10s and d30s. d5s and d7s must give you the willies.

Not really a superstition, but I have 3 rules of dice buying:

1. The die must be easy to find on your friend's stealth carpeting.
2. The die must be easy to read.
3. The die must look cool.

This is why I can't stand GameScience dice. Sure they're precision-made, but boy are they ugly and hard to read.

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« Reply #189 on: <11-21-10/0456:42> »
My favorite dices... That's easy!

D6s - I started with Warhammer 40.000 and now to play SR
610s - I played alot of Dark Heresy, Warhammer Fantasy RP 3Ed

That last one is in my humble opinion one of the best High Fantasy systems out there; I love it!
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« Reply #190 on: <11-24-10/1323:27> »
I've used a general rule that my characters have themed dice. Divine means sparkles, primal means I use my bone dice, and martial characters, I steal my boyfriend's blue and silver set that he never uses.

That was for D&D, at the very least. My first SR game I used a bunch of dice from random sets and even a few Spirit Cat dice from MW and some from a poker game I have lying around my house.

Even if it's just superstition to not use dice from one thing to another, I'm buying dice Friday. Haven't decided what color yet, but I know they'll be smaller than casino sized and brightly colored.

I love d20's. I have about five different ones that I use when I need to. My favorite one is from the bone set I own, I love using it for when I DM. I make my players cringe with the consistent 17's.  ;D

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« Reply #191 on: <11-24-10/1413:55> »
The only dice that bother me are d4s.  And that's only because they're the only ones I can't get to spin like a top.  It's weird, but it bothers me for some reason.

Though at the same time I like them because they make good weapons.

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« Reply #192 on: <11-24-10/1426:09> »
The only dice that bother me are d4s.  And that's only because they're the only ones I can't get to spin like a top.  It's weird, but it bothers me for some reason.
Try harder, Monky-san. ;D
It takes great patience and practice, but a friend of mine was able to do it.

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« Reply #193 on: <11-24-10/1427:38> »
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My favorite one is from the bone set I own, I love using it for when I DM.
What isit with the "Bone" Dice sets and women? I mean all I see when I read this is seeing the ladies hunched over in a frilly dress dripping (victom's) blood and picking their teeth with a thigh bone!


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« Reply #194 on: <11-24-10/1433:51> »
Try harder, Monky-san. ;D
It takes great patience and practice, but a friend of mine was able to do it.
I need a new table first.  Our current gaming table is a lousy card table with one of those squishy, padded tops.  We have to stick 2x4 plates to our Lego people's feet to keep them from falling over.

But when we acquire a new one, the practicing shall begin anew!

Or not.  Depending on how lazy I am.

 

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