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Post by frozenfood on Jul 3, 2019 11:17:08 GMT
What kind of dice do you guys use? I take 5 black, 10 red and 20 green. Makes it easier to count. I like these ones too. |
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Post by mottdon on Jul 3, 2019 11:25:55 GMT
Lol! I love those! I'd totally get some if I knew my kids wouldn't find them!
I have a big, plastic box with all of my dice, markers, templates, and measuring tape in it.
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Post by Horace on Jul 3, 2019 11:30:16 GMT
I have a random mix I've accumulated over the years. I think the old WFB 4th box set came with white ones, I bought a dice cube a few years back which were red, I have a bunch of Necromunda die mixed in, then various odd-shaped wooden ones from various board games. Good to have a mix and a few odd ones for champions etc  |
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Post by knoffles on Jul 3, 2019 12:07:39 GMT
I have a few odd dice but picked up 50 white dice a number of years ago from eBay and they’ve done me proud.
I do need to pick up more of the same but a different colour so champions etc can be rolled at the same time with the same size dice. It must be an ocd thing that it bugs me that my different coloured dice are different sizes to the white majority. The white dice + tape measure laser etc are all in a dice bag and I have a separate KM hard case for all the dnd related dice (I.e 20 sides etc.). It just means I can keep them ready to go in different boxes.
Oh and my dice have to have rounded corners. I cannot stand the square edged dice. I think on some level I think that it’s easier to cheat with them as them won’t ‘roll properly’ 😂.
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Post by ryryak2 on Jul 3, 2019 17:32:30 GMT
The ones I've enjoyed the most success with I've been using now for...golly 18 years. I bought them to match my Black Templars WAY back in the day. Black dice with white pips. They seem to be weighted quite nicely and I enjoy a nice spread of numbers, but they always seem to come through for me. I've bought (a lot) more dice through the years that are all kinds of colors (and even shapes) but I enjoy my basic black dice with white pips the most.
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Post by frozenfood on Jul 4, 2019 5:44:38 GMT
Some dice get punished. If they don't perform well, they have to sit out the game. It's the only way they'll learn.
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Post by gangland on Jul 4, 2019 14:21:28 GMT
I mostly use the dice from Island of Blood which seem to like me just fine. I do have some black dice with red dots for when I play my friend who uses similar dice, I have a Blood Angels dice for my Blood Angels now that I added some smaller red ones to, and I bring a bag of assorted dice/tokens/etc for keeping track of game turns and various other things.
Aside from getting bummed out when I dice roll doesn’t go my way (don’t we all?) I don’t much make a fuss about it, just a slight cursing. I had my 40k friend throw his dice one time due to the role and I’m fairly certain he lost a few (not that he cared). Fun times with little plastic men.
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Post by frozenfood on Jul 4, 2019 17:18:10 GMT
Oh, and the magic mushroom dice have to be green! Same with warptokens.
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Post by dannytee on Jul 16, 2019 23:58:56 GMT
I have a heavily mixed assortment ranging in color and size. I really like the idea of a group of 5, 10 and 20 each of a color to speed up counting. I think I will be trying that soon.
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Post by gangland on Aug 7, 2019 23:28:37 GMT
Not to necro this but I recently went through my white with black dot chessex dice and turned the losers into objective markers for 40k. How did I weed out the “losers”? These dice always seem to hate me, so I rolled all 36 dice and separated all the ones that turned up a 1. Then I rolled all the 1s again and if it came up as a 1 again it became an objective marker heh. Still need to actually make them look nice (I glued them numbered 1-6 onto some spare round bases). I plan to paint and flock them. But they work better than the Yahtzee circles we were using and the standard 6 sided dice for when we need them numbered.
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Post by sedge on Aug 8, 2019 19:36:35 GMT
Not to necro this but I recently went through my white with black dot chessex dice and turned the losers into objective markers for 40k. How did I weed out the “losers”? These dice always seem to hate me, so I rolled all 36 dice and separated all the ones that turned up a 1. Then I rolled all the 1s again and if it came up as a 1 again it became an objective marker heh. Still need to actually make them look nice (I glued them numbered 1-6 onto some spare round bases). I plan to paint and flock them. But they work better than the Yahtzee circles we were using and the standard 6 sided dice for when we need them numbered. You've just made a terrible mistake and got rid of your best dice! Every dice rolls a 1 eventually (except for those "extra special" ones - just don't get caught using those!) but the best dice know to only do so when it's not going to hurt you - so leadership tests, characteristic tests, or when you're just testing your dice out as you were. It's the ones that throw 6s when you don't need 'em to that you should have culled, because they're never going to give you the 6s you need for charge distances, armour saves and so on. |
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Post by gangland on Aug 8, 2019 20:08:21 GMT
To be fair the whole lot seem to never do any of that!
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Post by grandmasterwang on Aug 14, 2019 21:11:13 GMT
I've got a nice set of 2 tone Chessex dice that some awesome eBay seller gave me when I bought a bunch of stuff from him. 36 in total they get me through most things. Small, lightweight and smooth to roll. So far so good. I still use my old, random coloured, random sized dice as well from time to time. I don't want the newbies getting overconfident and thinking their position is safe  |
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Post by frozenfood on Aug 15, 2019 13:39:09 GMT
If I only need two dice for a roll, I pick the ones that show fives or sixes. Those are the good ones.
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Post by strutsagget on Aug 16, 2019 19:27:43 GMT
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