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So I can't find my rulebook, but this should be an easy question to answer. Does a rending hit add an extra d6 armor penetration to vehichles, or an extra d3?

D3

Angron wrote:So I can't find my rulebook

So find it. Asking for rules wholesale is frowned upon.

Gwar! is right, asking wholesale for rules is frowned upon, but to be nice, its on page 31 of the rule book

s2ua7 wrote:Gwar! is right, asking wholesale for rules is frowned upon, but to be nice, its on page 31 of the rule book

To not be nice, if you frown upon it..... oh.... I don't know.... don't post , especially after the question has already been answered. Goodbye, have a nice day.

Angron wrote:

s2ua7 wrote:Gwar! is right, asking wholesale for rules is frowned upon, but to be nice, its on page 31 of the rule book

To not be nice, if you frown upon it..... oh.... I don't know.... don't post , especially after the question has already been answered. Goodbye, have a nice day.

How is one supposed to learn that the asking of rules wholesale is frowned upon if he or she is not frowned upon when asking for rules wholesale?

Gwar! wrote:

Angron wrote:

s2ua7 wrote:Gwar! is right, asking wholesale for rules is frowned upon, but to be nice, its on page 31 of the rule book

To not be nice, if you frown upon it..... oh.... I don't know.... don't post , especially after the question has already been answered. Goodbye, have a nice day.

How is one supposed to learn that the asking of rules wholesale is frowned upon if he or she is not frowned upon when asking for rules wholesale?

Frowning does not require speaking.... or in this case, typing.

Ridcully wrote:

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Angron wrote:

s2ua7 wrote:Gwar! is right, asking wholesale for rules is frowned upon, but to be nice, its on page 31 of the rule book

To not be nice, if you frown upon it..... oh.... I don't know.... don't post , especially after the question has already been answered. Goodbye, have a nice day.

So why did you choose to give a snarky response to the person who actually gave you useful information (both that this is the kind of question that you probably should avoid asking, and also the page number for the answer so you can show your friends later when they don't accept "some guy on Dakka told me" as good enough evidence) and not the person who essentially told you to frag off (i.e. Gwar - although funnily enough I actually agree with him for once)?

Why do people insist on biting the hand that feeds them when there are so many better things to bite? Like kittens. Or Jaffa Cakes.

A related question: does anyone actually use D3 dice? I know there is a weird spindly thing that is a legitimate d3 (and there are some that are just 1,1,2,2,3,3 on a six sided die) but do most people just stick with a regular d6 and do the whole 1-2 = 1 thing? Just curious I suppose. Any other inventive ideas?

DoW

Being a major D&D nerd, I have a D3 Barrel dice and an Old School D10 (a D20 that's 0-9 twice) along with loads of D4's, D8's, a couple of D12's and some D%.

However, I have never actually used the Barrel D3, I just use a D6 and half the result, rounding to the nearest whole. It's the simplest way IMO.

1/2=0.5 => 1
2/2=1 => 1
3/2=1.5 => 2
4/2=2 => 2
5/2=2.5 => 3
6/2=3 => 3

Dodecahedrons are #1.

Orkeosaurus wrote:Dodecahedrons are #1.

I agree. I love my old Skool dice Kids today with their "D10's" and "Internets!"

DogOfWar wrote:A related question: does anyone actually use D3 dice? I know there is a weird spindly thing that is a legitimate d3 (and there are some that are just 1,1,2,2,3,3 on a six sided die) but do most people just stick with a regular d6 and do the whole 1-2 = 1 thing? Just curious I suppose. Any other inventive ideas?

I have a bunch of 6-sided dice that have the numbers 1-3 on two faces each.

I'm with the 1&2 = 1, 3&4 =2. 5&6=3 thing.
You can't acctually make a 3D object with three equal flat sides...

Bascilica wrote:I'm with the 1&2 = 1, 3&4 =2. 5&6=3 thing.
You can't acctually make a 3D object with three equal flat sides...

No, but you can make 3 sided "barrel" dice.

In fact, you can't make a 10 sided dice either. The "perfect" dice can only come in 4, 6, 8, 12, and 20 sides

You can make a 10 sided dice in that it's a dice with only 10 sides, all of which are equal.

I likea to doa da chacha

Ridcully wrote:You can make a 10 sided dice in that it's a dice with only 10 sides, all of which are equal.

What crazy dimension are you in? You can make 10 sided dice, but they are by no means "regular" polyhedra. There are 5 perfectly regular polyhedra, and they are the Platonic Solids

By sides, i mean faces (but we both realize that). I was clarifying your post which could be taken to suggest that you can't have a 10 sided dice, period. They have kite shaped faces, but don't have to resort to a barrel type of shape to get 10 sides.

Ridcully wrote:By sides, i mean faces (but we both realize that). I was clarifying your post which could be taken to suggest that you can't have a 10 sided dice, period. They have kite shaped faces, but don't have to resort to a barrel type of shape to get 10 sides.

Ah yes. Apologies for the misunderstanding. I was, as you quite rightly deduced, stating that you cannot create a 10 sided regular Polyhedron. The common "d10" or "d%" as it is known are actually Pentagonal Trapezohedrons, invented in the 1970's and popularised by the announcing of their "invention" at the 1980 Gen Con

Ya, I remember that. You were the guy nearby shouting "It's impossible!" until you realized what they meant by equal sides. Good times.

I prefer to refer to them as 'god knows what shape' though.

I remember that day:

"So, we have invented this new 10 sided dice..."
"LIES! THIS IS MADNESS!"
"Madness? This is GWARTAAAAAAAAA!"

So, um... what was this thread about again?

The amount of Nerd-Fu in this thread is overwhelming!

My doctor says I'm not supposed to have Platonic Solids. :(