I finally joined the 2020s and bought some dice that aren’t old enough to vote.
nice. but thinking about it. most of my dice are old enough to vote. oopsie.
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I’m not sure I like the look of these supremely sharp edged dice - much prefer the softer rounded edges of the third set. But the colours are great
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I’ve occasionally used casino dice in RPGs, and the sharp edges were very hard on the hands. But the readability of all these is excellent. (Q Workshop is notorious for making very pretty dice that are remarkably hard to read.)
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My favourites are still Gamescience dice.
Some of the new dice sets on the market are lovely, but they all share the problem that they are sets, fixed and not able to be changed to suit my gaming preferences. A single d6 is no good (a set should have at least three); I hate the “00” style deckaiders with a passion and would want to drop that; and I need another d10 of a different colour for rolling percentages. Unfortunately, none of the newer manufacturers seem willing to offer any changes at all.
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When I bought Xia I wanted to get a set of dice per player: that’s d6, d8, d12 and d20, in each of red, yellow, green, blue and black. The only way I could get exactly those and no others was to buy direct from Chessex at a big convention.
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What is it about the 00 percentage die that irritates you so much?
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What is a 00 die? I think I hate it already.
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A d10 with a “0” after each digit: 10, 20, 30, …., 90, 00. So that when you’re rolling d% there’s no argument about which die was the 10s.
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OK, yeah, hate it.
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Yes, the edges are sharp to the touch. I don’t mind it, it’s a new style. The websites I’ve been shopping on have “sharp” as a separate category.
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But why? I don’t understand what the problem would be?
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It’s a personal preference, like gravy. There’s no need for a special “tens” die when rolling a percentage, just an ordinary d10 of a different colour to the “units” die. Suddenly, everyone is buying the “00” dice as if it’s actually a requirement. Wasted money, in my opinion; and judging by the number of people at cons I’ve heard reading them out as if percentages all have three digits, I’m not convinced that they make life simpler. Is rolling 2d10 easier if one of them is a “00” die? No? Then for many games you probably need to buy more than one d10 anyway.
I don’t see the point of making a specialised tool that works no better than the existing general version.
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I don’t think I’d specifically buy one but they come in standard sets of dice now so I see no harm in it. And its not wasted money if it costs exactly the same as a standard d10 and can be used as a D10 anyway if needs be.
But as you say, personal preference. I generally prefer it as it saves me deciding which colour is going to be the units and which is going to be the 10s. Not a big decision but as I often play a D100 game, it adds up, I suppose.
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Back in my college days, I had a disdain for d10s because they were not Platonic polyhedrons like the rest of the dice. I just used a d20 as a d10.
When I loosened up and used d10s in the days when dice sets only had 6 dice (no “00” die), I’d use the d20 as the tens-die when rolling d%. This confused the heck out of people at cons. And then I’d feel obligated to tell them of a time when d20s were just numbered 0-9 twice (with or without a “+” on half the sides).
Back to Gamescience dice, I own a couple of sets and I would like them a lot more if they where numbered correctly. The d6 didn’t even have opposite sides summing to 7.
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Wut? Blasphemy. Why would they do that? How can they call themselves Gamescience when they can’t even get a D6 right.
I need to check my “old enough to vote” D10s for my perference on that issue…
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It’s happened again, another Amazon parcel waiting when I got back from work.
The previous one disappeared from my doorstep so said neighbour must have come up to fetch it. Maybe I should bring it inside to force the conversation. I’ve not been able to catch them to mention it.
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In addition to the points made by BigJackBrass, which are more significant than the utterly unimportant points I’m about to make, I’m just used to one d10 indicating the tens and the other d10 indicating the ones. You aren’t “adding together” the dice, which gives me an awkward maths for dummies vibe, even if you argue the redundant 0 is not really there to turn things into a sum, just to “indicate” which die is the tens. With two d10s, it wasn’t a stretch for 0 and 0 to represent 100. But change that to “adding together” two numbers and 00 + 0 looks like 0 to me, which I assume is unintended (I don’t know, it always used to be 1-100, maybe 0-99 is the new norm).
Anyway, the “real reason” I hate it is just as BigJackBrass said: far easier to just have a black d10 and a white d10 to cover all bases.
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I will accept opposite sides of a d10 summing to 9 (0 opposite the 9) or 11 (0 opposite the 1). Unless there is a 10 instead of a 0, in which case summing to 11 is the only option.
Another dice pet peeve of mine is when you buy a set with a “00” die, but its numbering isn’t consistent with the d10 in the same set. One die might be 1-3-9-7-5 and the other 10-90-50-70-30.
OR you buy a set with 3d6 and two of the d6 are numbered clockwise and the third is anti-clockwise.
I’m also not a fan of d6s with a line or dot under the 6. Is someone going to mistake it for a 9?
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