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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2020/01/17 18:17:39
Subject: Command ReRoll
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Nurgle Chosen Marine on a Palanquin
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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)?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2020/01/17 18:22:00
Subject: Command ReRoll
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Horrific Hive Tyrant
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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.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2020/01/17 19:28:19
Subject: Command ReRoll
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Norn Queen
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It's not a dice roll, it's a single dice.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2020/01/18 22:41:18
Subject: Command ReRoll
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Grim Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain
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It’s a single die.
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Stormonu wrote:For me, the joy is in putting some good-looking models on the board and playing out a fantasy battle - not arguing over the poorly-made rules of some 3rd party who neither has any power over my play nor will be visiting me (and my opponent) to ensure we are "playing by the rules" |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2020/01/21 03:34:44
Subject: Command ReRoll
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Nurgle Chosen Marine on a Palanquin
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So dice in British English is singular?
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2020/01/21 03:35:06
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2020/01/21 04:31:33
Subject: Command ReRoll
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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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.
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2020/01/21 04:36:40
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2020/01/21 06:35:18
Subject: Command ReRoll
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Norn Queen
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No, it's die but GW don't ever use the word die, they use dice to refer to single die.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2020/01/21 07:58:26
Subject: Command ReRoll
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Horrific Hive Tyrant
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Using dice for singular is, while not strictly correct, very common.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2020/01/21 09:32:25
Subject: Command ReRoll
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Smokin' Skorcha Driver
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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
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2020/02/28 09:54:13
Subject: Command ReRoll
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Horrific Hive Tyrant
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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.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2020/01/21 12:00:28
Subject: Command ReRoll
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Dakka Veteran
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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
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2020/01/21 22:39:01
Subject: Command ReRoll
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Regular Dakkanaut
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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?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2020/01/21 22:49:16
Subject: Command ReRoll
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Norn Queen
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If it meant dice roll it would say dice roll. It doesn't, so it doesn't.
It's truly that simple.
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