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.
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.
worst part is i’d absolutely be the DM. having read a little of the book i feel like i could just learn whatever role i want to take pretty easily (lets go decker), but keeping everything in my head at once as a dm? a lot less simple
could just learn whatever role i want to take pretty easily (lets go decker)
Lol. Decker is probably the most complicated, confusing thing in the game because of how cyberspace mechanics work, and how it splits between two different combat scenarios when you have other characters in meat space while the decker is in cyberspace. Not just for the players, but especially the DM.
I actually still play 3rd edition, as the introduction of the wireless world in 4th makes this stuff even more confusing.
In old-fashioned English, ‘dice’ was used only as a plural form, and the singular was die, but now ‘dice’ is used as both the singular and the plural form.
The singular usage is considered incorrect by many authorities. However, it should be noted that The New Oxford Dictionary of English, Judy Pearsall, Patrick Hanks (1998) states that “In modern standard English, the singular die (rather than dice) is uncommon. Dice is used for both the singular and the plural.”
‘Die’ is the singular form of ‘dice’. It comes from the French word des, a plural word for the same objects. In English, the most common way to make nouns plural is to add an ‘s’. If ‘die’ followed that rule precisely, its plural form would be ‘dies’, however, English is full of irregular plurals. Along with octopus, fish, goose, wolf, cactus, and appendix, “die” does not follow that rule implicitly. The plural form is ‘dice’. If you roll dice, you are rolling two or more game pieces. If you roll a die, you are only using one piece.”
It’s really as simple as: which sounds correct? “Rolling a die” or “rolling a dice”? 🤷🏼♂️ Anti-intellectualism is no one’s friend, friend.
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!
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