• edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    6 days ago

    Unfortunately we’re still stuck with caltrops as the standard d4 shape when so many better options exist

    • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      better options exist

      Standardising on D6 only?

      • Fedizen@lemmy.world
        3·
        5 days ago

        One fun fact about dice is you can have any higher faced die substitute for a lower faced one by rerolling any number not on the lower die.

        This is why I only carry a d100

      • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
        8·
        6 days ago

        How would this work?

        I mean you could use a d8 with duplicate 1-4 numbers.

        • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          Rejig everything so it’s so multiples of 6.

          Warhammer moved from D3, D4, D6, D8, D10, D12 and D20 to just D6 (and D3 from D6) You need a lot of D6, but they’re ubiquitous.

          • Yosmonkol@piefed.socialEnglish
            2·
            6 days ago

            Wouldn’t that change the probabilty curve? I guess it could be nice if you wanted to limit critical success and failure but it might reduce the sense of randomness.

      • edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        That’s actually a tough choice, I like having a variety of shapes for my click clacks but I despise the caltrop d4

        Edit: I’ve thought about it, and if I had to choose between a “standard” dice set with tetrahedron d4, or only a pool of d6s, I would choose the dice set and try to avoid ever using a d4.

  • Ziggurat@jlai.luEnglish
    114·
    6 days ago

    I like that story, Looks like as fake as the story of the internet troll being a lazy GM throwing a troll at every stupid question from their player, but that’s cool

  • someguy3@lemmy.world
    5·
    6 days ago

    So is there a war between the number on top and the number on bottom d4?