science

Do you own any oddly shaped dice? I personally do not. All my own dice sets are the standard shapes for polyhedral sets. I don’t think it was a conscious decision to only ever buy standard dice, but now that I think about it, it’s because I perceived the oddly shaped dice to be…

“That’s 17—sorry, 18—18 damage,” I said. I was rolling my damage in my weekly D&D game and I misread my dice, again. I have dice with numerals on each face and despite my best efforts, I’m not always correct. It didn’t occur to me that there might be a reason beyond my own brain…

If you’re like most tabletop roleplaying gamers, you have a favourite dice set. What is it about that set that makes it your favourite? Is it because you’ve had it for a long time, or because you’ve made particularly fond memories with it? Or, is it simply because the dice are your favourite colour?…