Wow you people think a lot about your dice… I just throw whatever comes nearest, whether that be a D10 or D00 and I don’t think I’ve ever checked what the sides of dice add up to, since I first learnt that D6s generally add to 7. I also don’t understand the ‘having a set of dice’ for a character or anything like that.
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My entirely ridiculous pet peeve about dice is that how the molds are made means that multicolored dice don’t have the layers sit the same if you have all the dice showing their highest number.
Using the dice currently in my bag as examples:
Also a lot of dice are hard to read in low light and I don’t like gold (why is that the default colour for dice numbers??).
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I don’t mind that (consistency with the other dice in the set) but I really object to “one face is the flashy logo”. Because sometimes it’s the 1, and sometimes it’s the 6; I think which it is is roughly a European/US divide, but I have dice from both places, so…
(Which is why @JGD came up with the “logo dice” idea in which each pip of the die is a miniature versinn of the logo. I have several sets of dice from when ordering from Chessex was affordable in the UK, pre-2016.)
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In the Marvel RPG, you roll 3d6, but one of them has the Marvel logo instead of the 1. Except it’s technically both.
Thematically, it’s a 1, so you’re rolling a “d616” and the best roll you can get is 6 M 6 (their equivalent of a crit*).
But mathematically, it’s a 6 when you’re adding the results together. So it’s actually got a distribution of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6.
*It’s also used for degress of success/failure. Making a roll including an M better than just what it is mathematically.
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Well in my world dice are cubes. With one to six dots on the faces. Opposite faces add up to seven.
Anything else is basically flim flam.
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Yeah, at that point it falls mentally into the “custom dice” category for me. (Which is good and bad: custom dice can be used to produce interesting results, or they can be a way to sell bits of plastic that (as in the case of Genesys) effectively kills the game when they go out of production. (I have a tin of Genesys dice, so I could run it in person, but you really need about two of the sets rather than just one, and while the app is decent it’s not as satisfying.))
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I’m very fond of the dice the @BigJackBrass got me, which are variations on the ‘logo D6’ in that in place of a ‘1’ they bear the words ‘Bollocks’ and ‘For Fuck’s Sake’; this makes it easy to remember what number they represent (although it doesn’t make as much sense for GURPS, and did cause some trouble when my daughter played with them on my desk).
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I have seen a D20 with Yay! at the 20 and Boo! on the 1
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Guilty as charged.
For me, it comes basically because when I’m playing an RPG, I spend a lot of time staring at, fidgeting with, and thinking about my dice. When I’m GMing, I have too many other things on my mind and don’t have idle time to contemplate on dice.
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With a boardgame I tend to use whatever dice came with it; with an RPG or most wargames that use standard dice upgrading the dice is a way of making it prettier.
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Yeah I am basically a forever GM so its whatever I can roll the quickest! 
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And often in bulk. I have a red, green, and blue set that I can use to simultaneously roll to-hit and damage for 3 attacks at once.
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My stepdad taught me to use the d20 as the units die and just ignore anything but the unit digit. It’s still my preferred method for rolling d100, especially when I think there may be potential for someone arguing about which die is the tens vs ones.
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I didn’t realise people don’t like the d00!
I like it because I can roll a d100 without thinking about it, and there’s full transparency for anyone else to know I’m not choosing the 10 dice after the roll. The d00 was even in my ancient dice sets, it’s been standard for decades.
d6 that don’t have 1 and 6 on opposite sides is just weird though.
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Of course this isn’t strictly true. In Robinson Crusoe the dice don’t have dots, they have storms and injuries. And plenty of my other games have their own non-dotty dice.
And in Flash Point: Fire Rescue one of the dice isn’t even a cube!
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That’s like saying that sandwiches are only peanut butter and jelly.
You’re missing out on a whole world of fun!
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My “favourite” example of this is Infinity The Game dice.
Every faction has a set of dice with their logo in place of the 1 result. So PanOceania has this…
… and Yu Jing has this…
…and so on… not super clear, but not a big problem until you get to one of the newest Factions… O-12.
Oh yes. The best dice ever…
(The actual dice are worse, but I can’t find a good example showing the O-12 logo…)
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Every sandwich is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich if you’re willing to add PB&J to any existing sandwich.
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I’m English, so jelly doesn’t go in a sandwich, it goes with ice cream at a child’s birthday party.
Jam makes a cracking sandwich though. Although probably mainly if you’re a child and it’s 1952.
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Whereas I used the d20 as the tens-die because it was physically larger and it made sense (to my brain) to use it for the “large” digit.
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