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Author Topic: Let me rant about dice for a moment...  (Read 5276 times)

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Re: Let me rant about dice for a moment...
« Reply #30 on: March 16, 2021, 06:55:31 AM »
Bought the ravenloft board game for the minis and tiles, it came with a black d20 with white numbers...i feel a compulsive purchase of Pendragon on the horizon.

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Re: Let me rant about dice for a moment...
« Reply #31 on: March 17, 2021, 11:22:17 AM »
I keep wanting to buy fancy dice... I have owned and lost piles and piles of random dice, and still occasionally find bricks of largely untouched d6's when I go through boxes...

But for some reason the assholes who sell dice these days in sets only ever offer a single D6 in a set of dice. Who does that? Well, I mean, everyone obviously, that's my fucking problem.

Once upon a time if you bought a set of dice it almost always, with near unto mathematical certainty, came with three d6.  Now, the exact number (three) is unimportant, what is important is that it is more than one.  I have four book shelve and four milk crates full of games, and more shit in packing boxes or lost to the aether, and I can count, on the contents of my shorts, the number of games that reliably ask you to ever role a SINGLE FUCKING D6.

Why the fuck would I spend thirty god damn dollars on a set of beautiful metal or carved stone dice that are functionally useless if the game ever (and again, with near mathematical certainty, it will) ask me to roll even TWO fucking d6's at the same time? Never mind three or more. 

To sum up: If your random dice set will not allow me to even play a simple game of Traveller, as an example, without having to re-roll the same dice or (Shudders in mock OCD horror) mix dice from two different sets/materials, then how can I justify paying for it?



They could at least have the motherfucking common decency to sell individual d6's, or sets of additional D6s to go with their fancy pants sets on the goddamn side.

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Re: Let me rant about dice for a moment...
« Reply #32 on: March 17, 2021, 12:58:13 PM »
As an aside, I told the boy to try Pendragon while he's there and he simply said "no". I'm like "don't come home until you've tried Pendragon, non-negotiable, I will disown you".

That's what good parenting is all about!

But yeah, don't worry about the dice. Sunk cost fallacy, spilled milk and all. Everyone spent cash on things that are cheaper now...

I certainly did the same with dice. I must have a hundred or two, but only use a dozen.
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Re: Let me rant about dice for a moment...
« Reply #33 on: March 17, 2021, 01:58:56 PM »
Just got 3 sets from walmart of all places for like 7 bucks.

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Re: Let me rant about dice for a moment...
« Reply #34 on: March 17, 2021, 06:34:25 PM »
Just got 3 sets from walmart of all places for like 7 bucks.

I wonder if wallyworld in Canada sells dice?

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Re: Let me rant about dice for a moment...
« Reply #35 on: March 17, 2021, 10:52:00 PM »
But for some reason the assholes who sell dice these days in sets only ever offer a single D6 in a set of dice. Who does that? Well, I mean, everyone obviously, that's my fucking problem.

They could at least have the motherfucking common decency to sell individual d6's, or sets of additional D6s to go with their fancy pants sets on the goddamn side.

This makes me glad that Xipe Totec is now on the officially approved list of Gods worshipped in California, as no one will blink twice when I begin flaying dice manufactures and rubbing d4's in all their exposed nerve endings.

Ohhhh this has been bugging me for ages.

And turns out the sets I have are Koplow dice tubes, not Chessex. Even more hilarious is that the mini dice tube a friend got me I thought had just 1 d6 in it. But today opened it after 15-20 years and... inside the cap are two micro d6s!

But getting a single of each goes way back to at least the boxed sets of other companies in the 80s. I have a set I still have no idea what came from now that is 1 of each. I think its from the AH Runequest starter but am not positive. I lost track of when Chessex dropped two of the d6s. But its been that way since at least 2008.

The why is of course to save money at the customers expense. Usually coupled with the reasoning that the d6 is so common that no one should have a problem getting a few if they do not have several already. Which is not too far from right as you can get a pack of good d6s for a buck from the hame section of some stores, or larger sets of cheaper d6s from thrift stores.

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Re: Let me rant about dice for a moment...
« Reply #36 on: March 18, 2021, 05:42:28 AM »
Back at least 10 years ago, last time i bought a set in the vertical plastic tube, it came with 4d6 and 1 of each of the others, I DID notice when I googled that the sets listed only included a single six sider, odd I thought, but it looks like such is now the standard for some reason.

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Re: Let me rant about dice for a moment...
« Reply #37 on: March 18, 2021, 06:14:45 AM »
Yeah I just saw a Koplow tube with 10 dice in it.  4 six-siders, percentile pair, and 1 of the rest. While the sets got back in the late 90s had 1 less six-sider.