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It says reroll 1 dice.

Everyone seems to reroll 1 die of a dice roll. But I think it means reroll the dice roll (meaning all dice involved in that roll)?

 Sazzlefrats wrote:
It says reroll 1 dice.

Everyone seems to reroll 1 die of a dice roll. But I think it means reroll the dice roll (meaning all dice involved in that roll)?

Its 1 single die.

So if you make a charge roll, you just roll 1 die, not both.

It's not a dice roll, it's a single dice.

It’s a single die.

So dice in British English is singular?

 Sazzlefrats wrote:
So dice in British English is singular?

Whatever you want to call the English GW wrote the rules in, they don’t use “die” for the singular “one regularly sided polyhedron used as a manual random number or result generator”.
1 card, 2 cards, 3 cards, ...
1 dice, 2 dice, 3 dice, ...

Note that you’re probably more likely to see things like ‘the cards’ used instead of “the card(s)” in game rules than in normal English.

 Sazzlefrats wrote:
So dice in British English is singular?

No, it's die but GW don't ever use the word die, they use dice to refer to single die.

Using dice for singular is, while not strictly correct, very common.

Using dice for singular is accepted as correct in most standar UK printed diciionaries and the Oxford dictionary even goes so far as to state that the word die was last used in 1751. Not sure how they prove that but hey...

Either way GW did the right thing by using a number to tell you how many to roll for the rule

Being last used in 1751 is patently nonsense, presumably by some arbitrary standard of use that is effectively meaningless.

Regardless, dice for single common use - we have established this.

 Nithaniel wrote:
Oxford dictionary even goes so far as to state that the word die was last used in 1751.

You just used it right there

 Sazzlefrats wrote:
It says reroll 1 dice.

Everyone seems to reroll 1 die of a dice roll. But I think it means reroll the dice roll (meaning all dice involved in that roll)?

Dont you think such a fundamental miconception would have been sorted out a few years after release?

If it meant dice roll it would say dice roll. It doesn't, so it doesn't.

It's truly that simple.