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rigeld2 wrote:I will always, without fail, lose to someone using those marble-ish colored dice that are really hard to read - especially for the colorblind (like me).

It's not that they're cheating (although a friend caught someone cheating against me using those dice after he learned I couldn't read them) it's just that I always lose.

I understand entirely, as I have the same issue. All of the dice I own have a stark contrast between the die & the numeral so that I can read it, let alone the other player.

A superstition we have, which has been proven repeatedly over the past 6 years, with pen & paper RP is that our groups can not make skill checks unless we're in combat. This is a fact. Throw us into combat and we'll get awesome rolls. Tell us to tie a note in a rope and we'll probably end up hanging our characters by accident. To combat this whenever anyone needs to make an out of combat skill roll the nearest person thumps them on the arm so that they're in combat and Hey presto!, the roll sometimes works!

When my soldiers do anything exceptional they get a promotion. Sliscus led the squad that killed a DP? He gets a DP horn on his base

I keep all my dice turned to six through the entire game. Roll a handful, turn dice back to six.

When I want my dice to work for me I load them…

J/K, never done this!

orz192 wrote:In my games with my brother I have found that some of the dice actually do roll 5's and 6's more often.
And for some reason he never wins the roll to go first, even though we stopped using the loaded die.

The plural of "die" is "dice."

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I will never, ever look at my dice whilst rolling. It means they'll scare themselves.

I also will kill the best models first, to make sure that the other models know it'll be them next.

Thou shall not touch my dice.

If any miniature breaks during transport/deployment, I'll lose the game. <- Tried and tested.

I fare better against well-painted armies.

Named characters make me nervous for some reason.

I usually carry my '96 Ghazzy as an amulet. And not only to battles - He's been with me to exams, sporting events, dates...

I tried that with the Sanguinor. Took him to a test once, got a 95, he comes with me alot now


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If I ever play Star Fleet Battles again, I'll never turn left. A circle to the right and I'm better off.

Me and a friend played one day, and I got obliterated really quickly the first 5 games - in all 5 games, my first turn was to the left.
The next 2 games I refused to turn left, going so far as to move in a massive circle to the right (because I was moving fast) to get behind my opponent rather than a quick left turn (it workout because if I had just turned left I would have overshot him). Both of those games I dominated my opponent.

Th3 Gh0st wrote:I keep all my dice turned to six through the entire game. Roll a handful, turn dice back to six.

My friend does this. He also puts his dice back in his brick so 6s are on top. Something about when the plastic cures, it will be heavy on the 1 side and will help w/ the 6s.

In my group, we avoid the community dice like the plague... If 1 even comes in contact w/ anything you touch, you are doomed for the day.

One thing I do is I will sometimes curse people's dice. I figured out that my ability to call rolls could be used to my amusement. I now will walk over to other tables and do some mumbo jumbo over one persons dice.

It doesn't do anything special, just makes people paranoid over when the curse is going to come into effect.

If I ever play against tyanids, I will put a nid-skull on the hull of my chimera for every win.

CuddlySquig wrote:

riverhawks32 wrote:I also put my tape measure in my mouth haha,

Why and how much of it?

Foe: "Alright, let's deploy...um, what are you doing?"
riverhawks32: "Mph...mph...mph...*spits* sorry. You go first. Here's the tape measure."
Foe: *door slams*

Just the tip of it haha But when I hand them the tape thermometer as we at my local shop love to call it they do a

I recite prayers from the Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer depending on the situation. It has yet to fail me. Thirteen 4+ saves, and only 2 failed after saying the Litany of Protection. Emperor protects indeed.

I've got my own set of wolf dice that very rarely roll lower than a 3. They were a set of a dice I bought (27 of them) from Chessex games with a wolf head in place of the 6, and they alone won me countless games because of ridiculous luck. I once rolled my Lootas against my Wolf Court (four TWC Wolf Lords) and managed 26 wounds. The wolf dice passed every single one at 2+. They're the only dice I roll for my Space Wolves; even if I need to differentiate wounds or attacks, I'll just roll them separate.

I don't have any, really. My streak of single-dice rolls ending badly stopped a few games ago.

For my weapons, I use white dice for melta, red for plasma, and purple for normals. In melee, I use purple ones for normal attacks, and white or red for power weapons. Not because of any sort of silliness, just because I find it easier to remember that way. I also substitute green for normals if they're more handy, but I like the color purple, which is why I got those dice in the first place. ^_^

I can say missile launcher without fear of jinxing myself.

I will occasionally swap out dice if I'm rolling terribly with them, such as if I'm shooting the heavy bolters on one Immolator, doing badly, then switching to the other Immolator and also doing badly. Swapping dice usually has no effect on how badly I roll. But, I don't punish my dice for rolling badly, nor do I praise them for rolling well. When I swap them out, they go back in the dice box, mixed in with all the others.

I don't crush dice that seem to roll badly, just like I don't crush models that always whiff their attacks or die or otherwise do not perform well. I don't even keep track of these things. Normally when dice roll well, they end up back in the box in short order, when the series of dice rolls comes to an end.

I do remove un-painted models first, sometimes replacing their position with a painted model of the same type. So if I fail a save for a Battle Sister with a meltagun, and one of the two in the unit is painted and the other isn't, but the one that's unpainted has the more advantageous position on the battlefield, I'll remove the unpainted one, and move the painted one to her place after asking my opponent if it's alright. I put the painted one as close as humanly possible to where the unpainted one was, so as not to gain unfair advantage. It's not that I think painted models do better or anything, I just like my paintjobs on my models, and I want to keep them on the table.

I, um, did have a thing where I could make my dice roll the way I wanted them to. It took considerable mental effort and insight, to the point it was completely impossible in even a casual gaming environment - because the feeling I get is the wrong one, the one telling me it won't roll the way I want, but I take it and roll anyways, and fail badly. Just sitting at the dining table and rolling a single scatter die about twenty times, consecutively getting the same result - direct hit - it worked fine. But as they said when I mentioned it on the GW forums, I could never do it in an actual game.

Generally, I'm just not a very superstitious person to begin with, and it translates into my gaming habits.