<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "Digital Dice Rollers"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/69.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net Digital Dice Rollers http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/802817/11283373.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/802817/11283373.page GMT Digital Dice Rollers
No one likes sitting around while someone picks through buckets of dice.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/802817/11283407.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/802817/11283407.page GMT Digital Dice Rollers GW one (Assault Dice) a few times, but found physical dice easier.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/802817/11283411.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/802817/11283411.page GMT Digital Dice Rollers 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.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/802817/11283450.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/802817/11283450.page GMT Re:Digital Dice Rollers http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/802817/11283455.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/802817/11283455.page GMT Digital Dice Rollers
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.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/802817/11283456.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/802817/11283456.page GMT Digital Dice Rollers
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.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/802817/11283457.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/802817/11283457.page GMT Digital Dice Rollers 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 ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/802817/11283479.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/802817/11283479.page GMT Digital Dice Rollers
 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).]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/802817/11283519.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/802817/11283519.page GMT Digital Dice Rollers http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/802817/11283742.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/802817/11283742.page GMT Digital Dice Rollers
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. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/802817/11283801.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/802817/11283801.page GMT Digital Dice Rollers http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/802817/11283823.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/802817/11283823.page GMT