Dice Rituals
General Dice Etiquette
- Out of Bounds — If it falls off the table, it’s a re-roll.
- Oops! — If it accidentally falls out of your hand, it’s a re-roll. No waiting to see whether it’s good result or not.
- Never Touch Another Man’s Dice — You will straight up suck the mojo out of them with your unlucky mitts. Hands off!
Colin’s Dice Rituals
- Tournament of Champions — Gather your candidate dice and roll them before each session. Pick out the low rollers and re-roll the rest. Continue doing so until only the strongest remain.
- The Ugly Ones Try Harder — You don’t want stuck-up prima donna dice that look good and then phone it in on the field. You want hard working dice. You want Rudy dice, dice with vomitous speckles and clashing colors, dice that are stoked to see play and want to give it 110%. Also they’re cheaper.
Laurel’s Dice Rituals
- Character Dice — Do you love your characters? Are they important to you? Then they deserve their own dice sets. Make sure to pick colors to match personality.
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Make sure that when you arent using them, your D20’s all sit 20-Side Up. Do this long enough and gravity will eventually alter the dice so they always land that way because that’s how physics works!
Now that’s just silly. Unless of course they’re sitting 20-Side Up in a toaster oven or convection oven at roughly 200 °F as per Method 2 of 4. Not that I’d know anything about that. >_>
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A chessex pound o’ dice is a great thing to have because when I feel like some of my dice are underperforming, it’s back in the sack with them, i have eight other colors of dice to choose from and I do not have to put up with your crit-failin’ butt.
Wait a minute… You mean to say you put them back in the bag? Where they can spread discontent among the other dice!? I mean, I don’t want to tell you how to play or nothin’, but that’s how you get overthrown in a military coup.
Also never give the player who’s rolling low your dice to see if it’s them or the dice. They’ll infect your dice. If this happens, you have two options. You can either get new dice or make a sacrifice to win back the favour of the dice gods.
My vote is to sacrifice the dice-toucher. That’s the best way to eliminate the unluck particles: cut ’em off at the source!
Re-reading this a long time in the future, I am amused to say that both of Fighter’s concerns are extremely accurate.
He is a man of subtle genius. Very subtle. So subtle you can’t see it….
Or, do what I do: line up all your dice of each different type, and when the die that you’re using fails you, switch to the next die in line. Repeat. This ensures that, by spreading it evenly, your bad luck can’t concentrate in one particular die.
I can see the appeal of mitigating catastrophic failures, but I’m chasing that “hot dice” dragon. I’d rather risk string of bad rolls if it means I can also get a string of awesome.
Always keep your dice 1s up. It’s more improbably that a die will roll back to the position where it started.
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I adhere to Laurel’s dice ritual as well; it makes the dice happier to know they’re rolling for their special someone than when I just need a random d20.
Another ritual I started in our group is our Dice Bowl, in which I’ve put all the dice I don’t care much about from various Pound o’ Dice purchases. It’s really been handy for new players, anyone who’s forgotten their dice, “my dice are misbehaving and I need a temporary replacement to shame them into compliance,” and anytime someone just needs a huge double fistful of d6’s to obliterate something with. Hopefully, that something is NOT the party.
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We got a big wrought iron lantern thing for our dice bowl. We call it the “Dicin’ Sphere” on account of it’s sort of round. And also because we’re big honkin’ nerds.
Mike is absolutely killing it with Rusty & Co. I’m in love with the character design on that formian queen, and our guys have never looked better.
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If it is out of bounds, its a zero. No rerolls. Just zeroes. Learn to roll.