Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Pound of Dice

This past year I started playing Dungeons and Dragons.  I have been playing in a campaign for about 7 months.  My character is a 6th level elven sorcerer.  When I first told some people about this, the main reaction was "wow what a nerd".  Well I guess sitting around a table playing a game with 6-8 friends is nerdy, hear that all you jocks who probably don't read this blog, your are all nerds to.

However, starting this week we are taking a break from our regular campaign and I will be DM'ing a campaign.  In this campaign I will also be playing some characters, who will technically be NPC's.  The first character is a Half-Dragon Goliath Barbarian.  This effectively means he is incredibly good at smashing things, is hard to hit, can breath fire, and can fly.  But enough about that.  Dice.  D&D runs with dice, the dice decide if you are successful, and than how successful you are and how much damage you do on attacks.  I had bought a set of polyhedral dice when we first started playing.


The DM requires a lot more dice than for a regular character.  So I went online to buy some more dice.  This being the internet I easily found more dice.  In fact a pound of dice.


Now that is a lot of dice.

Collection of d4, d6, d8, d10, d12 and d20's.

5 comments:

  1. What is this d10 you speak of? Are Platonic Solids not good enough for ye?

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  2. On some of those weird dice, how do you decide which side is "up"?

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  3. On the d4, the rolled side is actually the side under the die.

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  4. I varies between d4's. Mine all have it so that the point in the air is the value rolled. I have a friend who has it so the one with the face down is the value rolled.

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  5. I'm surprised no one yet mentioned that Goliath should be on the lookout for Davido, the sling wielding hobbit.

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