dice etiquette / picking up your rubbish

Yep, always remove misses and always reroll cocked dice.
And is it just me but I’m not a fan of sharing my normal D6 dice when at the club. I have a bit of a superstition that someone else using my dice might ‘steal’ the good rolls (it happened once and my opponent started rolling hot on my dice and my rolls went down hill at that point).

I always pick up failures and leave successes on the table for my opponent to see. Saves a lot of arguing.

I generally prefer to use my own dice and not share, but it's not that big a deal to me if my opponent honestly forgot his dice. If it starts happening week after week, I start suggesting they buy their own dice.

Which gets to another dice etiquette issue. Be absolutely clear what you are rolling for and when, and what you need to roll. If both players are clear on the game stage /in agreement on rules interpretation before randomization the better the game.

I think this is great advice!  I always explain everything I'm rolling for and why, even though it irks my friends.  

I even go further to be clear as to what the "rules" are for cocked dice.  I once was playing my Empire vs an Ogre player and we were at a LGS who had simple green felt tables to play on.  Well, when he slid his Ogre Bus (all metal models) forward on their movement tray, it made ripple in the felt in front of his tray.  We didn't think anything about it at the time, but on his next turn, he rolled his dice to charge my unit of 8 Demigryph Knights and one of them landed cocked on that ripple in the fabric.  It was so severe (as close to 45 degrees as possible) that I couldn't even see the side facing him.  I immediately said, "reroll that dice", without even looking up at him, but apparently, the side facing him was of course a 6 and would've meant that he not only successfully made the charge, but would've also been an Ogre Charge.  He grumbled and picked it up and did it again and this time, it resulted in a failed charge.  His Ogres stumbled forward and in my next turn, I successfully charged him with my Demigryph Knights - and won combat.  He wound up fleeing (seeing as how he forgot to take the Crown of Command) and my Demis chased him down.  I won the game, but he belly-ached for over a year about that game, saying that it was barely cocked and he would've won the game.  Every time we played, he'd bring it up, so we made some hard-n'-fast rules about cocked dice after that.  

Not everyone will be as hard-nosed about stuff like that and simply say, "Sure, here's the reroll" but there are some who'll be big butts about it!  Good to clear that stuff ahead of time instead of creating hard feelings ever after.

P.S. - I eventually stopped playing with him because of his attitude over that game.

We reroll dice even if it's a LITTLE bit cocked. Has it turned some successes into failures? Sure. But it's also turned some failures into successes so I don't hate on the policy too much.

And I usually remove failures when it comes to batch rolling, but if there are a LOT more failures then successes I will SLOWLY just remove the successes so that my opponent can clearly see what the die facing is when I pick it up.

I have red dice, black dice, white dice, and green dice that I use in any given combination to denote different attacks when I batch roll. The black dice are mine; no one else is allowed to use those as they've ALWAYS rolled very well for me and I'm not willing to jinx that in any way (I've been using them for at least 7 years now) but the other three colors are free to be used by anyone that needs them.

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