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We all have our preference to which type of dice we use. Personally, I like to use the small dice for almost everything while using the normal sized dice for, in WH40K, scattering and miscellaneous stuff (like vehicle penetration, mysterious objects, reserves, those type of stuff). Whenever I use the normal sized dice for the other reason, I feel I'm jinxing myself to do bad. That, and a painful memory of rapid firing a plasma gun and rolling two 1s. And then rolling another two 1s to try and save him.

The horror. So what are your guys dice preference or occasion for using one type of dice over the other?

Remember, it's only strange if it doesn't work.

A friend once told me, "Big dice roll big numbers". Personally I believe in statistical probability rather than dice mojo. I use small dice as I can fit more in my hand at one time, adding larger dice when I need to differentiate weapon effects.

I like the GW dice. They just feel nice and weighty.

I like the small dice personally, but I enjoy mixing up a few bigger ones in there for good measure.

I have some dice that only want to roll successfully for certain things. (My black dice roll well for Leadership. Roll them for scatter and it's boxcars all the way down. My little greenies will roll armor saves forever, but if you put them in charge of sniper rifles, then you're going home empty handed.)

I also like color variation. I want a few really big pools of dice, but I also want to be able to roll all my attacks at once.

Been using these lately. I like em for their uniqueness.

I like any dice, but rolling small dice with larger ones just doesn't feel right in my hands, as if they're not rolling 'properly.' I also feel like I am rolling worse results when batch rolling, but I know it is an absolute pain when people don't It has been witnessed by my eyes many a time.

I have soooo many dice I prefer for different things.
I have my white GW dice cube I use for marking things and if for whatever reason I need to roll 30+ dice.
I have my blue GW dice cube I use for massed, insignificant rolls (20 skeletons attacking, etc).
I have my big, clear blue dice for ward saves, character attacks, LD checks, those sort of important things that require 5 or so dice.
I have my 2 red club dice for banshee screams.
I have my 8 black club dice for my general/lord's attacks.
I have my 12 black and gold chessex dice for my magic dice.
I have my 3 larger black dice for wound counters or another 6 tiny little white dice if I'm running an army that needs more than 3.

Then I have a bunch of dice coming with kickstarts stuff that's on it's way so both the new systems I am waiting for to arrive will have their own dice.

 AduroT wrote:
Been using these lately. I like em for their uniqueness.

Where can I find these dice, lord?

I have a ton of dice from GW games and then a lot of the same time of dice direct from Chessex to supplement them (and give me mour colours!). I also have a stack of weird dice (D4's through D20's) from various sources.

I have a bunch of "big" dice accumulated from various board games over the years, but I don't use them in games except sometimes as turn counters or objective markers/deployment zone markers.

I do have a set of Jade Falcon and Federated Suns dice for BattleTech. They're honestly my only dice-based "extravagance".

I have several cubes of GW dice which I use for 40K because you need lots and the de-randomising of any manufacturing defects will get lost in the general noise. Also, most people playing 40K use the same dice so it doesn't matter if you come away from a game with a few more or less than you started.

I also have skipfuls of dice from other manufactures such as Chessex and Zocchi Gamescience, and loads of old Avalon Hill dice from the board wargames. I've gone off the Gamescience a bit because the numbers are hard to read on the gem plastic. If I re-ink them that should be taken care of.

Wow. Where does one start....?

Lets see I like the 16mm dice cuz I'm getting older and its easier to see the pips when they role across the table.

I have a set for every army I have every had cuz each deserves dice for its paint scheme (admittedly not the best choice of red and green on dice, but it looked good on the orks).

Now that I have left the 40k world and Just play WM/H I still cant bring myself to only carrying a few dice so my bag still has two bricks in it.....

edited for spelling without coffee

Small dice since I play orks.

 gnoise wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
Been using these lately. I like em for their uniqueness.

Where can I find these dice, lord?

They're Crystal Caste, not sure where all online to get them.

I have a blue GW dice cube and 40+ black and yellow "oblivion" dice by Chessex.

Only have the GW Dice. I use them normally and two of the WHFB ones for the warp storm table or showing kill points.

I dont have any designated for special things, but I have a whole lot of dice. Some are over 20 years old, some I got last month. All kinds of colors. D6 sets and RPG sets with all the various Ds. Im always on the look out for cool & unique dice. Going to pick up some Rocket Dice when they hit retail sale.

I got a fiend of mine 2 of these for when he rolls Psyker tests:

http://www.thediceshoponline.com/dice/4200/Chessex-Gemini-Black-Copper-BOLLOCKS-D6-Spot-Dice


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 AduroT wrote:

 gnoise wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
Been using these lately. I like em for their uniqueness.

Where can I find these dice, lord?

They're Crystal Caste, not sure where all online to get them.

Here's some that look about right:

http://www.thediceshoponline.com/dice-search/crystal-dice

I have 2 sets of GW dice (black and white) and before the game I roll bth dice cubes with all the dice, and whichever scores higher is lucky.

For scatter I like the larger white one that comes in the starter sets as the arrow on the crosshairs is evident.

For D3 I use a dice the same size as the Starter set scatter dice thst is white. It comes from "Cluedo Junior" and has 2 sides each marker 1-3.

I use mostly small chessex or Rackham (the black with red spots) dice for games like 40k

For smaller games I prefer larger (standard game size) d6. For song of Blades and Heroes (which only uses 3d6 per player) I have a few matching colored set and a set of 3 Mechwarrior Highlander faction dice that seem to roll really well.
I also picked up a tin of AT43 UNA faction dice at an auction for a buck that seem to roll uncommonly well.

Lastly, I recently bought a bunch of standard size d6 with various animals on the "1" when they appeard in the dice bin at local "5 below" stores. It makes a failing 1 (or a success 1) alot more fun when you can count the animals.

I have a pack of GW small green dice for all the normal stuff.

I have the GW "Big Guns" dice for those really important rolls.

Used to use the small white GW dice from the starter sets (Macragee, Skull Pass, Black Reach). Got a cube of GW Black Dice as a gift after many many poor rolls. Still get a lot of ones when it's time for anything but rolls though...

Rolling big with small just feels wrong for me for some reason.

 AduroT wrote:
Been using these lately. I like em for their uniqueness.

Those dice are awesome btw

Large dice matching the paint scheme of which ever army I am playing. DO NOT TOUCH MY DICE. That is the only rule.

The idea I would have a specific Die I use for rolling IC armor saves (higher numbers) then other dice for rolling IC LD tests (low numbers) and I segment those dice from the general dice pool is enough to make me raise an eyebrow.

I only use one type of dice, and except for colors, I never segment dice. Every die should be anonymous and its personal bias lost in the masses.

Oh, and if you make it a point to segment dice for specific rolls, then I will exercise my right to 'share dice' which is allowed at almost every event. You have a die who rolls 5+ a lot and you use for invun saves? Then my IC will enjoy your lucky/Observed Bias/Loaded dice for the same rolls.

You should ask yourself why you are segmenting dice and if it is impacting the game. You may be unintentionally cheating by using an observed bias or using dice rolling techniques to influence the outcome. And if you realize you are doing it, why do you deserve to modify the odds of the game in such a way?

 AduroT wrote:
They're Crystal Caste, not sure where all online to get them.

Thanks, can't wait to get these!

nkelsch wrote:
You should ask yourself why you are segmenting dice and if it is impacting the game. You may be unintentionally cheating by using an observed bias or using dice rolling techniques to influence the outcome. And if you realize you are doing it, why do you deserve to modify the odds of the game in such a way?

It's mostly about feeling comfortable when using different dice. Like when people use the small dice so that they can throw more at once compared to other, bigger dice. A personal example would be how I feel strange to roll small dice for something that doesn't require a lot of dice to roll like leadership and such. That, and it's like a lucky charm to do these type of things. But if you look at it statistically, you only have a 1/6 chance to roll what you need and that never changes whenever you roll. So from that point of view, it wouldn't be strange to see someone roll ten consecutive 1s or 6s but it's still amazing and fun to see that happen. There is the same chance that a die would only roll high and another to roll low. Luck may not have any influence in it, but it's still fun or nice to see a die faring better then most.

As far as special dice for certain circumstances, I'm currently doing Warmachine mainly, and just do the standard practice there where I have five dice of one color, and one dice of a different color. The odd color gets used to roll locations and deviation directions.

 gnoise wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
They're Crystal Caste, not sure where all online to get them.

Thanks, can't wait to get these!

nkelsch wrote:
You should ask yourself why you are segmenting dice and if it is impacting the game. You may be unintentionally cheating by using an observed bias or using dice rolling techniques to influence the outcome. And if you realize you are doing it, why do you deserve to modify the odds of the game in such a way?

It's mostly about feeling comfortable when using different dice. Like when people use the small dice so that they can throw more at once compared to other, bigger dice. A personal example would be how I feel strange to roll small dice for something that doesn't require a lot of dice to roll like leadership and such. That, and it's like a lucky charm to do these type of things. But if you look at it statistically, you only have a 1/6 chance to roll what you need and that never changes whenever you roll. So from that point of view, it wouldn't be strange to see someone roll ten consecutive 1s or 6s but it's still amazing and fun to see that happen. There is the same chance that a die would only roll high and another to roll low. Luck may not have any influence in it, but it's still fun or nice to see a die faring better then most.

Nope. Unbalanced die have biases. People who segment dice based on observed biases are using loaded dice. Observing a dice which rolls higher or lower in a particular situation isn't "luck" it is observing bias. If the bias is undocumented and anonymous, then the results can average out.

Also, specific types of dice need a bank or a dice cup to be randomized or else they can be influenced by the rolling technique. Usually larger, square edged dice rolled in smaller numbers are easier to influence by technique. So using a crappy small round edged dice for most rolls but swapping for a square edge die which requires a dice cup or bank to be actually randomized gives the impression of so doing so to influence the outcome via technique.

So using loaded dice or controlling the outcome with rolling techniques is cheating. Observing bias and segmenting lucky die or using larger or easier to influence die for special important rolls is emulating cheating behavior or you may find yourself unintentionally in a situation where your results are not statistically fair.

Any die on the table needs to be available for any roll for it to be fair.

Mostly, I use Koplow dice - the black polyhedrons for RPGs, and the bricks of black D6 for wargaming.

I do not have favorite dice - my dice hate everybody - my Lich King will fail with every one of his Zap dice in KoW, while the troop of ten skellies with bows will lay waste to a horde of dwarfs....

My vampire on evil pegasus will be taken out by a shot from the standard bearer, while those same skeletons remain firm in the face of three cannon....

My dice hate everybody!

The Auld Grump, and that is why I love them all equally.

nkelsch wrote:
Nope. Unbalanced die have biases. People who segment dice based on observed biases are using loaded dice. Observing a dice which rolls higher or lower in a particular situation isn't "luck" it is observing bias. If the bias is undocumented and anonymous, then the results can average out.

Also, specific types of dice need a bank or a dice cup to be randomized or else they can be influenced by the rolling technique. Usually larger, square edged dice rolled in smaller numbers are easier to influence by technique. So using a crappy small round edged dice for most rolls but swapping for a square edge die which requires a dice cup or bank to be actually randomized gives the impression of so doing so to influence the outcome via technique.

So using loaded dice or controlling the outcome with rolling techniques is cheating. Observing bias and segmenting lucky die or using larger or easier to influence die for special important rolls is emulating cheating behavior or you may find yourself unintentionally in a situation where your results are not statistically fair.

Any die on the table needs to be available for any roll for it to be fair.

Well, everyone has their views for stuff like these. I just find it a little far fetched that most people would go to such lengths just to roll better.

I have a big bag of random dice I have found or bought over the years

For some reason i quite like to have dice that go with my army. I got yellow/black oblivion dice from Chessex for my iron Warriors.

But now that i mostly use my necrons i am looking to find some nice green dice.