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What do you do when you play against others who seem to be going for the "I'm a unique individual - can't you tell by my Japanese Kanji D6's?"

In the last 2 days, I have seen actual crystal (pink amethyst) dice, symbols on the 3's, and rainbow glitter dice that gave me a migraine to look at for more than three seconds and I believe we're personally designed by Slaneesh.

Is it okay to tell people, "Hey can you use some freaking normal dice?" - But in a nice way that doesn't make me look like a dick.

Otherwise I'm going to buy these dice and use them:

“I have some trouble reading your dice-do you have any plainer ones you can use?”

Those ones are at least colour coded, so maybe you'll pick up how to read them quickly enough. It would be better if they were colour coded and did not have a stupid dot pattern.

 sigkill wrote:
Those ones are at least colour coded, so maybe you'll pick up how to read them quickly enough. It would be better if they were colour coded and did not have a stupid dot pattern.

So maybe some official GW Syvaneth dice.

I only play at the friendly level, so trust my opponent is not fudging rolls. The most common issue I have is trying to figure out if the symbols are on the 1 or the 6 for themed dice.

I would comment that the dice are hard to read if they were. I’ve seen some rune dice that were hard to read. And pointed it out at the time.

It’s a spectrum of funky fun to functional. But when picking out weird dice sets, please spare half a thought to your opponents, who are not used to them.

Edit:
Those syvaneth dice are atrocious.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 sigkill wrote:
Those ones are at least colour coded, so maybe you'll pick up how to read them quickly enough. It would be better if they were colour coded and did not have a stupid dot pattern.

So maybe some official GW Syvaneth dice.

I would absolutely bring these as a prank and see how long it takes for my opponent to complain. I'd switch to sane dice afterwards, for my own sake if nothing else. Now I really want to get the most unreadable dice I can find.

 sigkill wrote:

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 sigkill wrote:
Those ones are at least colour coded, so maybe you'll pick up how to read them quickly enough. It would be better if they were colour coded and did not have a stupid dot pattern.

So maybe some official GW Syvaneth dice.

I would absolutely bring these as a prank and see how long it takes for my opponent to complain. I'd switch to sane dice afterwards, for my own sake if nothing else. Now I really want to get the most unreadable dice I can find.

Just search for "Idoneth Deepkin Dice"

Transparent and impossible to read.

I LIKE variety in my dice, and feel free to send me the pictured dice - I've nearly bought them a number of times.

In answer to your question...the least offensive way I can think of would be: "I'm struggling to read these - run me through which are which please..."

Decorative Dice are fine, as Decoration. On the board? Wound counters only.

Fairly or not, if you’re using a real mixed bag for batch rolling? I’ll always suspect you’re up to something.

It’s the same general principle as WYSIWYG. It’s not enough for you to be able to rapidly read your dice results. Your opponent needs to be able to do the same.

And whilst we’re at it? When batch rolling, pick out your failures, not your successes. And at least wait for the dice to settle before you go a-grabbing. Had one opponent (the same one with the literal limp wristed rolling) where as soon as the dice hit the table? His hands were grabbing what he assured everyone were successful rolls. And frankly? There’s no way he could’ve seen what the results were, so quickly was he grabbing.

Another good one is to have a dice bowl/tray or other are that contains dice when rolling. Nothing worse than someone who rolls behind terrain on their side and half the dice you can't even see; or they tumble all into the models and are a pain to pick out.


40K is a game of open information; clarity of information is the cornerstone of the game and that includes the dice and their results.

So yeah There is no shame in asking an opponent to use clearer to read dice (accepting they might have to use yours for that game if they only brought one set of dice with them); to roll slower; to roll in a designated area etc....



Some people use dice tricks to cheat; but most are just keen to have the game advance quickly and not get slowed down and they just fixate on it so much that they take a few short cuts and panic about getting their dice out; rolled and up fast.

For such aesthetic person I always have spare set of 36 dices in plastic box. Simple cheap dices of all colours. Still have 3 sets. Green brown and black. If I can't read dice from my side of table I'd always offer my own.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:


What do you do when you play against others who seem to be going for the "I'm a unique individual - can't you tell by my Japanese Kanji D6's?"

In the last 2 days, I have seen actual crystal (pink amethyst) dice, symbols on the 3's, and rainbow glitter dice that gave me a migraine to look at for more than three seconds and I believe we're personally designed by Slaneesh.

Is it okay to tell people, "Hey can you use some freaking normal dice?" - But in a nice way that doesn't make me look like a dick.

Otherwise I'm going to buy these dice and use them:

I'd rather read those dice than this set of orange/gold i picked up the other week.
These things are just damned hard to read at a glance....
I'm honestly thinking of just donating them to some new player.

Why would you make a new player's game harder?

If they're that bad charity shop or bin?

Ouch. I have faction specifc dice for some of my stuff, but they all conform to the format where only the 6 is a custom symbol. Makes it easy to spot crits for KillTeam, which is nice..

Anything other than a simple symbol on the 1 or 6 and I'd be annoyed tbh. I always carry a ton of plain dice with me, with various colors, so substituting die at any given time is not a problem in our games

I trust my opponent to read their own dice correctly. I might make a comment here and there, but if my opponent enjoys their fun dice I will have fun with their fun dice... even if its to laugh at how nonsensical they are.

A fun trick.

If you are using horror inducing dice on your opponent for the fun of watching their mind break in front of you, and they offer you their dice...

You can:

A) say, "Did you sanitize them? I don't like getting sick."

B) Immediately cough/sneeze into your hands and then put your hand out to receive the dice.

C) If you are using the Deepkin or Syvaneth dice say, "I only use official Games Workshop dice, everything else feels like I'm cheating."

D) say, "Just so you know... I have to lick these before I use them, to make sure they taste okay."

The only "bad dice" are the ones I am rolling..... because Dice hate me.