I wish my D&D campaign worked this way

[theyellowhobbit]

I'm reading the Questionable Content archives right now, and this one made me smile.



Though why someone would need a *pair* of D12s is beyond me. He should have gotten her a set with a d4, d6, d8, d10, d percentile, d12, and d20.

Comments

[ranka.livejournal.com]

Heh, I love Raven. :-)

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

Me too. Actually, I pretty much love everyone in the comic. Especially Pintsize. He's so cute and destructive!

[ranka.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah. :-) I think Hanners is my favorite of the bunch.

[boroparkpyro.livejournal.com]

because d12s are the coolest dice ever, although sadly underutilized

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

If only I had attacks that used d12s. My healing spells use d8s and my fire spells usually use d6s. Other people have d12s for attack rolls, but I am not a fighter.

Maybe I should send you a d12 for a belated birthday present (considering I have near infinite dice now...)

[boroparkpyro.livejournal.com]

naaa it's okay. i have my dice organized and proportioned to a very anal extent. don't want to disturb the ratios ;-)

[nerdx111.livejournal.com]

When making an attack that uses d6's, you can use d12's to simulate d6 if that is more fun. Just divide by two! (round up)

[masteraleph.livejournal.com]

There's no real use to that, unfortunately, since both are perfect in shape.

The bigger problem is that d10s and d100s are not- either the sides aren't identical or the angles aren't identical, or both (this is hard to detect on a d100, since it's shaped roughly like a golf ball, but it's still true). Only 4, 6, 8, 12, and 20 have both sides that are the same shape and size and the same angles all around.

[leftyjew.livejournal.com]

The better question is - if you only have d6s and d2s, how do you simulate:
d12
d4
d10
d20
d100

[leftyjew.livejournal.com]

add in d8, too

[leftyjew.livejournal.com]

my answers...
d12: roll 1d2 and 1d6. If d2 = 2, add 6 to your d6 result.
d4: 2d2 - one black one white. if white d2 = 2, add 2 to the other die.
d8: 3d2 - one black one white one red. If white d2 = 2, add 2. if red d2 = 2, add 4.
d10: same as d12, but d2 adds 5 and a d6 roll of 6 gets rerolled
d100: roll 2 d10s as above. if the second d10 is 2, add 10. if 3, add 20... if 10, add 90.

d20: ????

Anything better than these?

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

I assume by d2 you mean a coin or something, right?

Better is when you use a d20 to simulate a d1. Basically you roll, and if it's anything besides a 1, reroll. :)

[leftyjew.livejournal.com]

Ysah. These questions came up years ago when my brother and I were trying to play a game requiring a d8 or something and our only portable randomizers were d6s and coins.

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

This is why I always carry a d20 on me. And now there's the internet, which has dice rolling programs. (Though I prefer to roll real dice when I can.)