2y ago

Why would I ever need more than this, silly?

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I got by with one set until I started DMing. Ever since then, dice make up about 70% of my carbon footprint.
- Ya, well, I have a goblin brain, and I need all the pretty click-clacks.
Okay, your spell hits, now roll 12d6 for damage
- That's why you buy a box of 36 small d6.
  And then 5e came along and changed half the spells to use d8s instead.
  
  My eyeballs don't do small dice anymore
Under communism, we will have one big dice and everyone will get to roll it.
- From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.
  So the Barbarian gets all the d12s, is what I'm hearing
  
  Linking every TTRPG thing directly back to D&D is system reductionism! Under communism, there won't be D&D as we know it because it promotes and valorizes monarchism!
- Yes. That's exactly how it works here.
  🙄
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Me: buying dice at the game store.
Clerk: Sure you only want the one set?
Me: yep! It's got all of the 7 dice I'll ever need for #dnd
Clerk: okay then! under their breath: "See you soon"
Me: what?
Clerk: what?
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Besides damage dice you'll need at minimum two different D20 sets for DnD. One extra so the bad set can sit in Dice Jail™ until it's learned it's lesson.
It comes in lbs? I'm getting one
- But you already got one!
rolls up to the register with an entire cart full of D6 boxes
"Gonna be playing Shadowrun this weekend."
- I'm not into pen and paper rpgs (though i'm curios about them), but if you need a bunch of dice, why not use an app?
  
  If I was going to rob myself of rolling thousand dice, I'd just play video games.
  
  In a nutshell: rolling cool looking dice in a groovy dice tower is just absolutely pleasant.
  
  I can't swim through an app like Scrooge McDuck in his vault.
  
  RPGs for me are a great way to not look any devices or screens for a few hours. Paper character sheet, physical dice, books and a pencil.
  
  In my case because I want to avoid computers when playing, not increase my usage of them.
  But of course that's because I hate computers.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyYexTcyY2A
- God i wanna get into shadowrun, but I don't want to learn shadowrun
  
  Having learned it: I totally feel you. The books are laid out like shit.
Me buying a 120 dice set:
That outta get me started
When I started DMing I bought a couple of packs on Ebay in order to have color coded dice for my players.
Then when I started playing, I bought myself 2 sets of really nice metal dice from Etsy.
Now I don't have the urge to buy any more dice, because there just is no need.
- I have no need for the sheer number of dice I have, but I have desire.
  I got my literal gem dice (as in machined form semiprecious stones) because they were gorgeous. The same applies to my dichroic prism dice. I have my metal sets because I just like the feel of them; the heft in the hand and the satisfying thunk as they hit the dice tray from out the dice tower. I have several sets of dice because the colours appealed to me. (I tend to give these out to new players as I introduce them.) I have speciality dice (FUDGE/Fate dice, various Chinese dice, etc.) for the times I need them. And in the end it winds up with me having way more dice than I strictly speaking need.
  But I regret none of them.
Hey baby, it is time to buy more dices!
- Dicorini*
- Dice* you heathen. 🤢
  
  Sorry, english is not my native language
  
  What's the singular of dice, friend?

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