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How many of you use digital dice rollers when you play in-person games?

If I played a ton, and I used an army with tons of dice, I would.

No one likes sitting around while someone picks through buckets of dice.

I used the official GW one (Assault Dice) a few times, but found physical dice easier.

I tried a few, mostly the Star Wars one for X-wing.
Physical dice are much easier to handle.
But, if you can programme it for certain sets of dice, that might help. If you have a unit of 10 models with 9 that shoot the same multi-shot weapon, it could save time.
Yet, then there are re-rolls to handle. If the app deals with them too, nice.

A big part of a lot of games is the dice-rolling though. Seeing the handful of dice roll, picking through to remove the misses, and waiting for the wounds to land.... That is sonething am app will have a hard time replacing.

I'm not opposed to them, but even when I'm rolling (& rerolling) alot of dice? I've just found it quicker to use physical dice than an app. Plus my opponent can easily see what's been rolled.

Physical dice are better. The digital dice apps cannot truly be random. They also make it difficult for your opponent to be part of the process (i.e. there's little transparency using a dice app.).

If you do decide to try and use a digital dice app. make sure you ask your opponent if it's OK. Most people, including myself, will not be OK with it.

I prefer them because I came from an area where people knew how to influence dice rolls (not loaded dice - dice tricks to get what you want to come up).

I first learned of this at the GW GT in Baltimore in 1999 or 2000 (been a while I forget which) where there was a guy on the friday night we rolled in with about 50 or so people around a table all cheering him. He'd have someone call out a number and then they would and he'd roll it on 2d6.

Ever.Single.Time.

And the dice were not loaded. If you picked them up and rolled them they'd behave as you expect.

Since then I knew a few people that learned how to do that with the dice and I don't trust public games anymore involving dice barring dice towers or a rule where you have to bank the dice off of a dice tray or something.

Digital dice (barring someone knowing how to hack the app) you can't do that with.

I prefer my tactile dice. Perhaps not a popular or even common opinion, but with hands like shovels, I love rolling loads of dice at once. Very satisfying,

I’m also oddly digital adverse when it comes to gaming. I much prefer the physical goods. I accept I’m quite possibly a weirdo and no I do not intend to change

 oni wrote:
Physical dice are better. The digital dice apps cannot truly be random.

For the purposes of playing a game, both are random in the sense that you cannot predict the outcome. While a random number generator maybe be pseudo-random, barring shenanigans (ie, cheating) you cannot know the internal state of the program when generating a number, so for all intents and purposes it is truly random to the user.

So too can you predict the result on a physical die with advanced knowledge of factors that will affect its result (ie, cheating).

I don't, but that's more because I play the armies that might get to shoot, say, twenty shots in one action, not the ones that shoot a hundred shots in one action.

Terra Formed wrote:
How many of you use digital dice rollers when you play in-person games?

Never, and I wouldn't want my opponent to use them either. It cheapens the hobby and gaming experience.

Sometimes. Generally with like over 100 dice attack when playing under time limit