Do *YOU* have the coolest dice in your gaming group?

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**Ghidorah**

Move over Chessex and Crystal Caste. Your Meteor dice and metal dice have NOTHING on these:

Mach Dice

/nerdgasm

Ghidorah

**Hordini**

Heh. Very cool. If I had an iPhone, I might actually download it.

Whether or not I'd actually use it in a game is another story though.

**Apone**

I love them...
Tell me I can get this for my mac!

**Death By Monkeys**

A friend of mine has been blogging reviews of some of the iPhone die rollers - you can check them out here:

http://bryant.livejournal.com/636403.html
http://bryant.livejournal.com/636128.html

As far as the coolest dice in our gaming group - in my youth, there was one d20 of legend that my friends and I actually came to blows over - since no one ever had the guts to bring it to a game and use it for fear of it being stolen, it would typically be stolen from the current owner's room. Thus it would be passed among us, until someone managed to hide it - and it was never found again.

**Ozymandias**

That is a cool application!

Too bad I'll never buy an iPhone.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

**Darrian13**

Those are nowhere near as cool as my Dakka Dakka dice.

**chromedog**

Nowhere near as cool as my 36mm AoS dice.

Don't need an Iphone (already got a phone that does more) to start with, and if the opponent Tees me off, I can just peg them at him.

**Aduro**

I want an iPhone, but not really for this.

As far as dice I want, I want to get some of the Emperor's Pointy Stick dice when I have the cash to spare.

**malfred**

Sorry, but I don't have those dice. I have the coolest dice
in my group because they say Dakka Dakka on sixes.

**syr8766**

That is pretty damn awesome.

Kelly (who plays in my former Saturday Night D20 group) probably has the best dice, if only because he has a file cabinet full of 'em, sorted by number of sides and color (and whether he's talking to them today or not). And by file cabinet, I mean a real file cabinet, not one of those expandable rolling file holders. I mean a piece of furniture.

It's kind of a problem (says the man who's run out of closet space for all his miniatures).

**MagickalMemories**

I'm fond of my Roman Numeral d6's, personally... but I LOVE that app.

Too bad I'll never own an iPhone!
On second thought... nah. Not that bad.

Eric

**warpcrafter**

Iwant that sooooooooooo bad! But I would then not have any money left over for miniatures, and I don't want to play the same army for the rest of my life. Damn you I-Phone!

**yakface**

Thanks for the heads-up. This program is now my 2nd favorite set of dice (behind the good old dakka dice).

**Darrian13**

BTW, when can we order more Dakka dice? Now that I play Orks I need lots of dice.

**BossBootFang**

Not that cool to be honest. I like being able to pick up and feel the dice. I play 40k because it is a tangible game that requires some imagination and interaction with thing and people in the real world. This is just moving it closer to virtual games, that which I'm trying to find an alternative to in the first place.

My 2 pence

**lord_blackfang**

Most dice-rolling software doesn't randomize properly, so I wouldn't use them for actual gameplay.

But to answer the OP, yes I do have the coolest dice in my group.
http://picasaweb.google.com/vygruk/KustomOrkyDice

**malfred**

Dice don't randomize properly, either, unless you're talking
about them fancy Vegas dice.

The difference between kustom orky dice and computer
programmed dice is probably not that far. (Unless they're
kustom balanced as well!)

**calltoarms**

I dont' know. Too easy to edit a program and offset randomness. That said, I guess it's not that hard to do it with regular dice either?

**Kilkrazy**

His 3D dice are modelled on the original Avalon Hill D6s that were supplied in all their boardgames.

As that's what my dice are, I officially have the coolest old skool dice.

The iPhone also has a great beer drinking program.

**skavenfreak**

Ewww, an apple product.

**lalabox**

My friend has sphere dice. They have a weight so that they do show a number. I'm pretty sure that that takes the cake.

**chromedog**

Kilkrazy wrote:
The iPhone also has a great beer drinking program.

what? Apple geeks (sorry, believe the term in use these days is 'fan-boi') NEED a program on their phones to drink their beer for them as well? How sissyboy is that?

just kidding, really. Everyone knows iphone users don't drink beer. They can't figure out how to get the bottles open.

**Kilkrazy**

The beer is served in a glass, not the bottle.

**syr8766**

Saw the iphone dice in person last night at our D&D game. The guy with the phone wouldn't use them 'cause he didn't trust the randomization either. Frankly, I think there's something primal to the feel of the dice in your hand vs. some wonky program (even if it's presented in a visually stunning way).

Meh, considering the way he rolled last night I would have gone with the phone.

**two_heads_talking**

those would actually be the coolest and most expensive dice anyone ever purchased/..

What's the going price for an I-phone now? 300 dollars? for dice? no thank you.

**Frazzled**

Ghidorah wrote:Move over Chessex and Crystal Caste. Your Meteor dice and metal dice have NOTHING on these:

Mach Dice

/nerdgasm

Ghidorah

Thats nothing. I have Dakka Dice BABY!

**Leigen_Zero**

I'm currently (i.e. it is about 1% complete) working on a java app that rolls dice for me,

the good thing about it will be:
you tell it the number of sides,
you tell it how many dice to roll,
what the dice has to be over/under to pass a non-specific test (e.g. d6 over 4 to hit roll, 2d6 under 10 to pass morale)
it tells you how many dice have passed/failed

will take a while to get done though, due to lazyness on my part
though it won't be as fun as rolling physical dice

**LucasLAD**

Where can I get some dakka dakka dice?

**JD21290**

i got the i-phone, seems like a good use for it lol

my friend used his GF's pink fluffy dice from her car before XD
nothing like a 150mm pink fluffy dice XD

**malfred**

LucasLAD wrote:Where can I get some dakka dakka dice?

If you become a DCM, contact Iorek to see if he's in supply.