2 reasons I can think I'd want glowing dice: 1: so if they roll under a couch by mistake, they can be easily found. 2: so you can avoid stepping on a d4 in your bare feat in a dark room and taking 1d4 piercing damage.
Also if the dm gets way too into submersion and turns out the lights when you go into a cave (the submersion dm is actually like my dream dm, but the darkness would have to be warned about lol)
@@JoeldaSilvaVicenteFilho: Depends on the system, it's easy to get a 20 from D4's if you're playing Deadlands Classic and get lucky with the cards in character creation.
My trick as a DM to deal with weirdly consistent high rolls (like repeated natural 20s on a D4) i this: - if the char is a Bard everything is a-okay - otherwise kick player out for cheating
Deja vu They only roll forever if you put a lot of force behind them :P. Also, i too own a d100, but i use that when rolling for treasure or rewards, when the d100 comes out, you know good things follow it :P. Another thing, using a d100 for treasure is good because it means that, if i wanted my players to feel more involved with loot, i can roll the dice across the table to the player because of how well it rolls.
I’d like to add one more thing to the list: People who throw the dice. They constantly throw the dice, bounces off the table, hits a player, bounces off the floor, kills a cat, tumbled down the expressway, buys a cup of coffee, gets late for work, comes home to a nagging Wife and finally rests on a bed showing the number 2.
My friend tosses them sometimes but she tells us before she does so someone can keep it from falling. It’s usually when she’s completely done with everything. But since she tells us it’s just fun.
Frogg doggs yeah but he was also stacking it on his hand, which is neither perfectly still or flat. Also with the d10s in particular they have really small surfaces relative to the others, making it easier to unbalance when stacking on your palm
I do wonder why people cheat in D&D, It's a game with no distinct win state. Rules that say that fun or cool things are allowed to break them. a (good) DM that is willing to accomodate different types of play. And a (good) DM that can keep a challenge at a fun level. Just rolling a bit higher has no impact on the game AT ALL on the long run. Worst case you're gonna be the last person to find a magic item to balance your character to the group.
@@yusthavinfun I know it was months ago since you commented, but I have to say: What if you never hit or do anything amazing because you have such bad luck you never roll higher than 50% of the die thrown? No more than 10 on a d20, no more than 6 on a d12, etc? Since your character can't do anything from such poor rolls, where's the fun for you? Everything you try will fail, so why bother doing anything at all? Persuasion, always fail. Perception, also fail. I haven't cheated but I have to say it's really tempting when everyone gets to do cool stuff while your character repeated fails at things he's supposed to be skilled at. +7 to stealth? Sorry, your rolls are so bad you will never succeed in sneaking. +9 to hit? Sorry, AC for the boss is 18 and you can't seem to roll above an 8. Enjoy being the dead weight of the party! I have actually had a DM give me a magic weapon that uses a bonus action to turn any miss into a hit because I went 3 sessions failing 85% of my attacks. As a monk... with +7 to hit and 3 attacks per turn... for 10 turns... until the party killed the thing I was trying to hit... with an AC of 17...
lol. My first tabletop group had the "you take it wherever it lands" rule. So if it rolled off the table under the couch, unless some outside force acted on it, you had at least two players pulling the couch out of the way to look at it before picking it up. It could get pretty funny at times.
I have one comment on odd shaped dice - a standard d4 doesn't roll worth a damn. I've seen someone with a d4 shaped like a log and that rolled a lot better.
Agreed. This video served an additional purpose in terms of making me look up weird shaped dice. Need to get some of those log shaped d4 dice. You really have to put effort into making regular d4 roll at all, and even then it's so unsatisfying.
Yeah, d4s I end up throwing up in the air so it spins airborne before landing, but you're right, it doesn't roll. It'll land on the number it hits the table with.
I keep all of my dice on the table with the highest number up so all the atoms settle at the bottom. I know its BS, but the entire groups also does this now after I got 4 nat-20s (open-rolled) in a row.
@@waynecarrjr.1187 advantage doesnt really make the whole attack longer though. he just needs to roll 2 D20 instead of one, and pick the higher one. your fighter might consider playing a barbarian, if advantages manage to slow him down lol
I also made a dice tower as a barbarian and when waiting for one of my team mates to pick spells to be able to use then after I went for a small animal to use as an weapon threatened to kill him and won over the love of my animal with another team mate before he finished
I especially dont understand the people that dont like others borrowing their dice for a roll. Personally, I love letting someone use my dice because I feel like ive added something to their roll. For example, if someone is rolling damage for a fireball, and doesnt have enough dice, i love letting the use my d6 and then seeing how much damage my die did for them.
I feel like you have to read the situation before making the assumption that people are OK with their dice being touched or borrowed. If someone is worried about their dice being unintentionally mixed in with another set of dice, and forever lost, that could be a valid reason to not want someone to borrow their dice. Most of my dice are not part of a set, and could be easily mixed up if used with another set of mixed dice. If everyone has their dice in easy to distinguish sets, and I'm the only one who brought a few pounds of random dice, than I have no issue with people using the extras. And then there are some players who are just superstitious and don't want their luck to rub off if someone else uses their dice.
I have a ridiculous amount of dice sets and provide dice for everyone in our game because most are super new and I didn't expect them to buy dice for a game they've never played before. The only ones I don't let people use are my metal d20, my very 1st set I ever got, and my Batman die. And that's only because I don't want them to get lost cuz our players tend to knock dice everywhere..lmao
I have two bag of dice, one bag for others to use one bag for myself and mine alone. the reason is that if i buy the dice set i buy it for myself. do u like when someone touch your stuff? if u do good on ya. but if someone doesnt thats their right to not let others touch them. i will share with u a story, i came to a new table with a bunch of strangers. and this one guys sit next to me keep eating his chips lick his fingers AND THEN he wanna touch my stuff and he keep wiping his nose with his bear hand. this is the reason why i never let anyone touch my stuff.
I had a player that had the Japanese character for the numbers on her dice. Needless to say, as my understanding of Japanese is minimal at best, I insisted she not use those dice. But the funny thing is that she didn't know what they said either and had to consult a chart to know which number was up. Oh. My. God. What a terrible time-waster!
HectorGrey and Jennifer Rogers: Well, it wasn't at my table, but then the people I play with don't usually roll that way. ;) However, I'm thinking it's a good house rule. BTW, why not get a grab bag of garbage dice, partially as a penalty for those who either forget their dice or bring dice that aren't really usable.
As a DM that rarely has to be a tyrant about dice and dice rolls (my table is pretty well chilled and mature about the subject) I do keep several sets of dice extra in my DMing kit, for several reasons: 1. Players forget things 2. Guests usually are not as well prepared as table regulars 3. The Laura Bailey-style Dice Jail is a real thing, and it gets full some nights 4. While I have 3 sets of dice that are my absolute favorites, It's nice to mix things up occasionally. 5. If ever I encounter a set of dice brought by a player that we suspect may not be a fair set of dice, and we discover through testing (salt water buoyancy/roation for example) then we have one or more sets of dice that are known to be fair already waiting in the wings, to keep the game going. Spare sets of dice are a good thing
Where did she get them? I need them! (I'm learning Japanese, already know all the characters for that lol) prob wouldn't use them, but they would be so cool to have
I agree with these points because of one important principle: Not only must you not cheat, but you must be SEEN to not be cheating. Like with any conflict of interest it is always better to make things as transparent as possible to remove all doubt, no matter how honest a person you may be.
I’m a newish player to d&d and I’ve only done one of those sins the dice tower but that was before a game due to waiting for a player to turn up But one other tosser that should have been here is the flat/no momentum roller
Same. One of our players was sneaking alone to a cave about 5 miles away and he was thinking of a strategy. It took almost 5 minutes, so I had built the tower while waiting.
@@noobpro9759 that is less of a problem imo than the no momentum roller. some people roll so slow, or rather just drop the die, that there is physically no possibility to ever see one particular side of the die up. they basically half the possible outcomes. and i am talking about people who also dont shake the die in their hand, just pick up and drop. for me, the die has to make a least one complete circulation or it doesn't count
@@XpVersusVista you've never played with my idiot brothers. rolling the dice off the table even though ive made them dice trays, they literally set their dice in the tray and take them out to roll not to mention their, dumb ideas, forgetting where they are and circumstances instantly, playing on their phones, raping each other in game, sexually harassing my characters in game. my brothers are literally the worst people to play dnd with. they just hurt.
@@noobpro9759 honestly your brothers sound like they weren't raised at all, where the hell are your parents? and yeah, don't play dnd with them, just raping for fun, even if its just a game, is disgusting as hell
Heh, that's nothing, I've seen a video of a guy ranting for over an hour about different types of dice and techniques that anger him and I've had even longer conversations with friends over the finer points of dice etiquette.
Nah this dude needs help. I came across him like a few weeks back. I don't know if its a character or over acting. Either way, I wouldn't want to pull up a chair at this dudes table unless there was a camera crew to record the melt downs over sounds.
TIL: Someone's peed in Guy's Cheerio's again, and he wants to live in Ancient Rome. BTW, Guy, you've missed my one major peeve with "dice rolling": The Table Slapper. This is someone who picks up the die/dice needed, and without as much as a ceremonial shake, slaps them down on the table. It's not a coin flip, and even in a coin flip, it's at least tossed in the air, caught after several revolutions, and then slapped down on someone's hand.
Is that just when they don't shake the dice before doing it, or is it that method of rolling that bothers you? I've been wondering if it's generally considered acceptable to roll that way, as long as you attempt to randomize them with a good shake. For practical purposes, it'll allow me to get everything in a central area and eliminate any dice falling off the table or getting lost, so it would be nice if I could do it. I don't know if there are any issues with randomness.
Not infected So long as you shake it, and don't look at it before slapping it down, it really shouldn't affect the probability. However, it is a way that can allow a skilled person to cheat, so your dm may not allow it. If you make a tent over the die with your hands, so people can hear it roll to a stop, that can be a good way to contain your rolls.
I should have read before adding my own, as this is one of my peeves. even if you shake them, RPG polyhedrals are so big that you don't give them a good tumble in your hand before the slap. And, as mentioned, it intro's a means of cheating. Not hard to pinch the d20 on the number you want and rattle the other dice before the slap.
If you want to contain your dice so they don't go everywhere get a cup. Shake them in the cup then quickly flip it over and slam it on the table. When you pick up the cup the numbers will be shown with no chance of you messing with the numbers.
I think one of the Dice Tossers you forgot is the Craps Tosser. Everytime they roll the dice they have to launch their dice across the table like a projectile hitting other players, objects on the table, or most of the time having the dice fly off the table and fall onto the floor.
lmfao. My character and another person at the table have a growing friendship. and we have become slight buds from it. His b day was a session ago and he was admiring my new dice. The exact ones in the intro. So i went ahead and bought him some rose gold and pink ones since that's his fav color. His first roll of the night is the d20. and these are heavy compared to plastic. Well he does his roll and it goes flying right on top of his mini and broke him giant scythe off the figure. LOL cracked me up. We just glued the weapon back on. he was a more careful next roll.
I actually have a house rule in my game to prevent that. Any dice that lands of the floor counts as a 1. No exceptions. Applies to me (the GM) as well as the players. Encourages everyone to chill it a bit with their dice throwing.
@@DDdreamer90 addition to that rule for "dice droppers": every role that does not at least do one full rotation also counts as a failure i hate people who literally just let their die fall out of their hand, instead of rolling it. it is also a form of cheating
@@XpVersusVista I did that once by accident because we were playing while having dinner so there wasn't a lot of space for rolling, I immediately rerolled it properly.
On the plus side, I don't do anything that could be misconstrued as cheating, and I cannot stand dice that look good but are unreadable. We've all played with "that guy." I try not to play with "that guy" if I can help it.
I do this too, but I also play on a soft mat so I make less sound.... My table is also full of newbs, so they take a REALLY long time figuring out what they want to do on their turns. I DO listen, but my hands get idle v.v
Then they don't know how to use them courteously. I have a tin that my dice came in. I use the cap to roll the dice on so it doesn't dent tables or papers.
Matt Briddell I have a set of iron dice; not oversized, just average. I love them; they look awesome, and no one else in my group has anything like it. They’re clearly mine. But rolling does suck. So now I’ve saved some paper towels to roll it on, so it doesn’t scratch anything.
I used mini dice exclusively up until I could get one of those lined rolling trays. I didn't know it irritated people, though; I just have a really bad audio sensitivity and dice rolling was one of those sounds that gave me tension migraines very quickly. So I'd play with my mini dice and cover my ears whenever someone next to me rolled. Glad I don't have to do that anymore (as long as I remember to bring my box with me), but there was a reason for the mini dice that went beyond "Oh, I just think they're darling!"
@@gloomycandy101 detected the mini dice user :P as long as they are not COMPLETELY mini or rather micro dice, its ok. but there are D6's that are smaller than the finger nail on my little finger.
You obviously missed the critical role episode where will Wheaton touched someone else's die. They had to then have the die put down because it was cursed.
Yeah never touch someone else dice without asking. I hate it especialy if the person in question have a load of his own dice. There is a reason I have spare set that I lend people that have forgotten theirs. :)
That's an exception. Will Wheaton is know to harbour a highly potent dice curse and dice he touches must be destroyed. That was like half of the expenses for table top, buying new dice as well as having to fully sterilise the bodies of those who touched the dice with water infused with Taliesin Jaffe's eldritch powers.
The die wasn't Khary's, it was gifted to him after being touched by Wheaton. And, as has already been said, Wil Wheaton is very well-known for his cursing abilities (see: when the players got him to touch the table (and Mercer's dice iirc) to try to help them against a major boss fight)
I love fancy, glittery, sparkly dice as long as they are legible. my Dice Pet Peeve are the players who bring freakishly large heavy dice. who needs to roll a 2 pound D20? It's not bowling for kobalds.
I completely agree. Also, Kobalds? I find scale-less kobolds hilarious and am going to put them in my game. I don't mean to rag on your spelling, goodness knows I hate that too. It just put a really funny image in my head of wrinkly, pink little lizard bubs running away from a barbarian.
Bowling for kobolds is fun... Gnome tossing is even better. I had a character (a thief) who was a champion gnome-tosser. But he /hated/ gnomes. So, he would always clandestinely swap the gnome-catching receptacle (a bag of holding) with his own bag... A bag of devouring.
I have a player the usually plays fighters, he rolls all of his hits at the same time. Once I figured out what he was doing I loved it as it sped up the game. He makes 4 attacks, he rolls 4 D20s then for each that hit he rolls the damage dice all together. It’s a lot faster than 1 at a time
exactly in more than one instance it saves alot of time this guy is literally just a complainer i sat through this whole video and besides the ways he listed that people obviously use to cheat its a gigantic waste of time.
I couldn't do that with my ranger build, one of my subclass abilities relies on me making my second hit for more damage. If I rolled all my attacks at once id be able to cherry pick the attack order.
My favorite tosser is the Home-runner: you have a 50x250cm table, there is a specific bowl in which the dice are meant to be rolled in, yet, somehow, they will throw it as if they are trying to hit the enemy with the dice, instead of using to determine whether they hit or not, and the thing hits the bowl, launches itself to the other side, kick off the table, into the ground and probably into a wormhole or interdimensional portal to hell, never to be found again - of course, stopping the game for 10 minutes to find it, and then having that player constantly distracted because they are still looking around trying to find their dammed die.
I do find it acceptable to roll your D20 and your damage dice together in the event that you hit you will know damage immediately. It does not affect the randomness of either die, and only really happens to speed up combat if short on time.
I only recently heard that some people do this, or even consider it a mandatory practice. I see the logic of it, but it still seems wrong to me, like you're tempting fate.
Regarding the "don't touch my dice" one, I largely agree, but if someone has a tendency to roll the dice so hard that they frequently fall onto the floor, I could totally understand someone not wanting to give their special dice to that person.
I knew a guy in organized play that would roll on his laptop keyboard and had suspiciously good rolls. Venue organizers were non-confrontational, so after many complaints, they instituted a venue-wide rule of rolling in the open. Then the guy suddenly started rolling tiny 1-mm translucent dice, after only using standard dice before that. Then came the rule that there needed to be dice result confirmation from another player, if not the GM. Then there were like three more of these venue rules changes, all the while they guy never realized he was the target.
I'd specify "Standard dice of XX mm size of the same shapes as XXXX set by XXXX manufacturer, numbers clearly visible. and rolled in view of at least 2 others." Dice trays strongly encouraged. Dice towers that will bounce the dice as they pass through also encouraged. Publish it in the rules before the event.
We just use "standart dice" at the table for everyone. If someone wants to bring something different (unique looking or shaped dice) - if at least one person at the table is against that, it's a veto. Democracy for the win
My friends and I once had the idea that when we'd go into a dark dungeon in D&D, we'd turn off all the lights, and only the people with darkvision would get glowing dice... Needless to say that we did not think that through...
I've been on both sides. Frequently dice builders are bored because they feel the game is going slowly but don't want to disrupt another players moment.
And on the flipside, in some cases it can be a way to better pay attention. In my case it often helps me because it keeps my ADHD under control. (It is also important to check if it bothers the other players. If not, happy building)
@@XpVersusVista People with Jobs, People with families, people with pets, people with lives outside being a neck beard basement virgin who do nothing but play games all day.
if a standard die rolls favourably enough for me to deem it observably lucky, then hell yea im gonna use it. It's not modified, therefore its not cheating. its just luckier than most.
I have a set of “lucky” dice that I’ve tested multiple times in salt water. They have no bias towards either side, but I always seem to roll well with them.
I have a set of dice that hate me. Do I desperately need to succeed? Nat 1. Do I want to fail this roll for comedic purposes? Nat 20. The opposite of what I want to happen always happens. I keep them for comedic value.
I find it irritating when people use the plural for the singular. I also hate dice that are overly ornate. Why would you want a die that is so overly ornate that you cannot even see the number?
Dirus Nigh This is my exact problem with last dice set I bought. Got so caught up in the "This is so cool; I must have it" of the Dragon theme for the dice that I forgot about practicality. All the dice have a dragon wrapping around each of the dice around the number, making it harder to read. Suffice it to say, really regret having bought those dice, especially for 12 bucks.
I've been a player for years, but I took my SO to her first campaign two weeks ago. I swear to god it only took her 20 minutes to start stacking and nobody else had in front of her.
After stumbling here from other videos, i can say that this man really, REALLY does not liek his game to be slowed down. He also has a thing for calling out people who may be cheating. He also seems to get more upset as the video goes on... but that might just be my imagination. 10/10 would watch again.
I NEED to send this to one of my players. He always rolls his dice behind his rule book, and, whenever I say something about it, he says that he should be allowed to, because I do it sometimes..... EVEN THOUGH I'M THE GM. (I always hide my NPCs' perception rolls and every 3rd attack roll.)
Just reply that GM stands for something and it is a new name for Referee+Narrator, so you actually decide if, how and when the rules (do or do not) apply. The GM *is* a special player and that is going strictly by the ruleset, so if your player does not want that, they may go play some other game (some collaborative GM-less RPG even).
@@EmptyKingdoms I totally agree with that. I'm usually pretty flexible with the rules. If a player really wants to do something and it won't hurt anyone else's experience, then I'm more than happy to reward their creativity and bend the rules. It just irritates me a bit when I'll let them do pretty much anything, yet they still resort to borderline cheating.
@@kramerfortuna7228 due is cheating. If he has to make a stance against laying a book down its not to be like the gm. Its to fudge rolls. You table has a cheater dude.
@@melodygallagher5909 Yeah... you're totally right. I THINK we worked things out, though. We'll see soon enough. I'm taking a short break to prepare another campaign. Hopefully no problems next time! (Thanks for the concern!)
@@kramerfortuna7228 just tell him "oh you can keep rolling behind a book if you want. i'll just count them as 1's :)" and be done with it. either he stops his bullshit, constantly crit fails, or leaves the table. honestly, with a player saying what he said, i would prefer the option of him just leaving, he is clearly too stupid to understand the special role of the GM
went into this video expecting to hate it because i thought you would be extremely pedantic like some people i've heard, ended up loving all of it, it's all common sense
a Guy in my adventure league group would throw his dice like 2 feet in the air, it would bounce all over the place. The DM even asked them to stop doing that, but that only would work for a couple of rolls. It took forever and would knock things over. I ended up quitting that group cause i couldnt take it anymore.
Hey, i think all dnd players have some kind of superstition they follow when it comes to their die rolls. One of my friends always sits at a specific spot at the table we normally use and if he arrives late and doesn't get that chair or if we're playing in another location, he will move around the table constantly and if he keeps getting bad rolls he'll start to roll on the floor saying and i quote "I need a level surface". I guess he's implying that his normal spot is the only place on the table that's actually level. Another person i used to play with ( i don't any more) used to buy a set of dice, roll them and if the die were coming out bad too often he would line up all of his other dice so that they could watch and he would smash the bad die with a hammer...because i guess a public execution would frighten the other dice into rolling well. Me, before i actually start a game i roll the die several times until i'm getting more good rolls then bad and if anybody asks why i tell them "i'm getting the bad rolls out of the way before we start"
Well sometimes bad quality dices are "loaded" because of air pockets. It can go both ways. I have a die which tends to roll a lot of 19s and the close numbers. Fortunately or not depending on how you see it, itsq uite bad because it often ends on 1 which is just next to 19. I guess rolling a dice one hundred time can give you a hint on its quality, and if it is obviously loaded toward some bad value, better keep it for thoses systems in which low rolls are good, or just throw the die away
Whew, those dice you showed off at the start, beautiful. I know someone who bought perfectly clear dice to give to his players when they forgot theirs. They only forgot them once after that. I heard a story about a guy who picks up dice as they roll, and everyone playing knew they were cheating as they'd constantly get 18+ on all their rolls. So one guy passed him a d12 for a d20 check, and he was like "got a 20" and they were like you got a 20, on a d12? The worst is when people roll multiple attacks at once and don't resolve the damage until all their attacks are resolved, and then the last monster dies on the first attack and they wasted rolling a d20 another 3 or 4 times. Getting an 8 on your perception check, what a scrub :P
"If you're playing in the dark, you have all other sorts problems don't you" 😂 I love it when you're sassy and sarcastic, it makes these all the more enjoyable.
I love to get a feel for my dice, BEFORE we start playing. I may roll my dice 50 times before the DM says "Last we left our heros" But once the game starts, if the dice leaves your hand its final. If it falls off the table you take the number it landed on or you instafail. We have dice boxes to roll in. If you ignore it then the results are your own. We roll where EVERYONE can see the dice. Period.
Back in the dark ages of RPGs (1984) we use to have several sets of extra dice on the table just for those that needed an extra couple of d6 or whatnot.
"If they work for you and only you that's a loade-" No. Loaded dice are dice that are weighted to fall on a specific number. No other thing is a loaded dice. Being "attuned" or "Personal" don't make dice loaded.
Jazz Jackrabbit as someone who picks but really tries not to rotate it or cheat the results... I do it because im excited and its quicker to move my arm than my torso. If someone at the table tells me it bothers them i do try to leave it lie. Sadly it sounds like this girl was just a run of the mill cheater and not someone whos just compulsive in movement.
My first set of dice could hardly be read. So I would roll let it stop pick it up and read it if it was unclear. Otherwise I'd lean over the table and read it. Pretty quickly i just bought another set.
Good stuff and reminds me of the many irritating things players at my table try to get away with (they do not)! But...the singular of "dice" is..."die" :D
liking simply for the title. thanks for not saying “YOURE ROLLING YOUR DICE WRONG, HERES HOW YOU FIX IT” it’s refreshing to not see people screaming at you in their video titles
As a 5e Monk, I have multiple color coded sets. Blue d20+d8, red d20+d6, yellow d20+d6 so I can roll my weapon and flurry of blows at the same time. I always use the same (favorite) color as my weapon attack for consistency. This definitely speeds up my combat as I can just do a single roll and total up all the matching colors that succeeded. P.s. Don't touch my dice!! (I have spares if you came ill prepared, just ask)
I have ADHD. Dungeon masters need to stop asking people like me to pay 100% of attention all the time with all of my body parts always. If I am drawing or doing something with my hands, it's so I can listen. Not because I'm not listening. Its not about respect, or trying, or ability, or maturity. If you don't want me to make a dice tower, just make sure I feel like I'm allowed to have an alternative to fight with. Because with nothing else to do 10/10 will dice tower.
Kathryn Livingston Totally get that, yeah. One of my players will just start talking about life stuff in the middle of the game. I'll be explaining or describing a part of the scene and they'll just look at someone else and ask "Hey did you see that movie trailer about the etc etc?". Full volume, talking over the DM. Maybe I'm too sensitive, but that was obnoxious as all hell.
If they respond appropriately when addressed, are aware of what's going on and aren't actually bothering anyone, leave them be. I always hated that about school and work, and about some of my friends too. I would read in class and otherwise it's listening, either to audio books or to music, I need them to focus and stay calm, without them I can't focus and become prone to rapid (and often severe) changes in mood. Some people catch on quick; if the headphones come off and the book shuts, if I doesn't look like I'm clinging to every word, leave.
Levi V , I have ADHD and sometimes it helps to have something to fidget with. I will play with my dice or doodle on my character sheet. It really does help me focus and does not mean I’m bored.
I love this video! When I am having a tough time with something, Guy has a way to bring sunshine on my cloudy day... And for the record... I can relate to all of his complaints.
I prefer my players do not use software applications to make rolls. I have politely asked them to roll dice. If they do not have dice, I have more than enough to spare.
I love the feel of rolling dice. The only thing I hate about online play is the lack of physical dice rolling. Why you would opt for electronic at a physical table (unless you need it for GM purposes) is beyond me.
I like dice apps for fireball (adds them up automatically) or when a Street Sam needs to make a resistance roll (Shadowrun he was tossing 34 dice, 5s and 6s are successes so I had skinned the D6 to have red for 1s, blue for 5s and 6s and beige for the rest ... they also had numbers, photoshop can change your background colour pretty easy), in short I think they have a place ... Star Wars dice app is nice, but those dice are weird. Not sure if anyone running the games I play care one way or another, they haven't mentioned anything.
I generally hate dice apps. One exception may be for when one or more are playing via Roll20 or some other remote service. I'd still prefer to roll real dice and trust people to not cheat. Alas, that isn't universal.
We had a DM that seemed to roll really lucky when he used someone else's dice but then we'd roll really poorly after he used it. It was like he sapped all the luck out of the die so it became somewhat of a joke and we designated a set of dice for him to use so he wouldn't touch ours anymore.
Aximil similar story. Our DM forgot his dice bag, so I lent him a d20. It had been rolling poorly for me, so I had decided to use a different one anyway. It continued to roll poorly the rest of the night. We are a superstitious bunch lol. Our DM even had a cursed dice tower. He used it one night and rolled 24 Nat 1s for a single session. It's bad luck continued during 3 or for sessions in different campaigns. He doesn't use it anymore...
Quite frankly most of those irritating habits never even crossed my mind. The only onne I feel a need to comment on is the one about superstition. concerning others touching your dice. As far as I am concerned, it is more about those borrowed dice for a while not rolling well for their owner as if being grumpy for having been handed over to someone else. Ultimately it is just superstition and I am aware of that, yet to me that is just a minor quirk and nothing to get upset about. Just because I prefer not to lend the dice I am using to others does not mean I have no spare dice which I have no such qualms about handing out. So basically I have one set of dice which I am using myself and then a bunch of spare dice to be used by whoever needs additional dice for any reason. Also it is entirely possible that for some people this has nothing to do with the dice themselves, but rather some concious or subconscious phobia of germs or something of the like. Those things do exist and while the other displayed habits can indeed be irritating, this particular habit to me is an absolute non-issue.
He complains about people not letting others borrow dice, but then he mentions that guy who seems to have nore dice at the end of a session than the beginning. Maybe those two players sat at the same table?
Just an FYI: I went to a game store today, and I didn't buy dice. Yes, it's possible to stand for several minutes admiring the dice available, and not get any. The struggle may be real, but you can do it. I have faith in you. On a footnote, I did leave the store after buying a $60 USD Shadowrun book... Sooooo.... yeah.... the struggle is real.
Indian0Lore: I've been looking at them. Not because they're beautiful, but for the opposite. They aren't beautiful, and thus, make a great set of loaner dice.
Players who roll dice over and over again, not for in-game rolls, but for the sake of rolling them. When I used to play at my public library, there was a guy that sat beside me that would fiddle with his d20 by rolling it over and over and over again. It bugged the absolute crap out of me! It is now one of my biggest pet peeves at the gaming table.
Holy crap, it is as if you typed my words with your fingers. I often run solo games - solo as in I am a GM and have one player or vice versa - and when I'm in a group and have that kind of dice fiddler on the table... It is just irritating for the most part, especially when the GM just told someone to roll whatever skill check, but sometimes it makes me want to throw something at the face of said individual. Not that that has ever happened before. At least not with something hard. Or thrown in a way that could injure :D One of the players in a group with me as a GM had one of those heretics in it. Common sentences at the table were "I didn't ask for any skill check" or "What did you roll there?". We usually played on a rather small table, so it was cramped to oblivion. One can imagine that the players weren't all that happy with him flinging his dice all over it all the time.
You would hate me at the table then lol I have physical tourrets so I can't sit still I end up throwing the dice from time to time and roll them without thinking about it but I let new players know before they feel obligated to endure it I understand it can be annoying for alot of people.
Literally every one of the 12 people I've played with "dry rolls". My current group, we roll for about 20-30 minutes before actual character creation or play.
I'm the dont touch my dice type of tosser. Why you may ask because people are gross, I dont know where your hands have been. I would rather not have cheeto dust or crisp dust if your on this side of the pond all over my nice clean easy to read bacteria free (mostly) dice. If there are going germs all over my dice its going to be mine and just mine. Great video.
I use Dice Rolling Zones, as I've got a pretty cramped table, but rolling off does result in a miss or fail. Oddly, there's been a sudden acquisition of towers and boxes. Unrelated, I'm sure.
Cesar Gonzalez It's not that I hate falling dice, it's that eight people around a living room table just chucking willy-nilly results in lost dice, lost time looking for lost dice, and lost momentum as dice are mourned. If I can avoid that by encouraging towers and boxes, that's a win-win.
I like the old Warhammer 40k 7th edition rule. "If your dice can't hit the table, your [Character] can't hit the enemy. All dice that fall off the table are treated as if the die showed a '1'."
I had the same thing. They kept rolling on the the floor and re-rolling, or rolling and saying that the die was cocked. So i bought little boxes from a craft store, and told them that any die that lands on the floor counts as 0. They complained for a while that they weren't rolling well into the trays. So some of them started rolling onto a book again and kept rolling onto the floor, they kept taking the 0's, so i started saying the next attack against you gets advantage if you roll on the floor & your roll still counts as 0. The problem fixed itself
I roll multiple dice together because, frequently, I roll the damage roll and the "to hit" dice together to save rolling both motions. There isn't any confusion as to what they are for; I just feel my rolls are more random when I roll multiple dice. If I miss then I don't bother reading the damage dice. Fairly straightforward for me. I don't think there is anything particularly wrong with rolling multiple dice, as long as A) The dice cannot be mistaken for one another and B) They are all relvent for the same roll. It doesn't work if the to hit and to damage dice are of the same type. I do have a custom with my crit brass dice in that they are my bros. Usually the critical injuries inflicted on myself are very low (when the GM rolls them) and high for the targets. One time a player rolled the dice to try and save his own life and he rolled so high that he instantly died. Thankfully it was a relatively new character the player hadn't got too invested too, and I kinda joked that they had "recharged their luck from the latest sacrifice. XD" That being said, isn't a serious superstion, I just pick them up, roll them. Chuckle.
In the games I run, it seems more suspenseful to roll your d20, then roll for damage if you hit. It seems less fun if everyone is rolling all their dice at one and shouting out numbers, generally at the same time.
Why the fuck would anyone think its okay to punish someone for rolling well? The whole pont of rolling high is to succeed. There is no succeeding so much you fail. You had a shitty GM.
I have had the same experience. I used a set of dice in tabletop and I roll generally really good (Luck? I use a cup for rolling, so no cheating is involved even subconscious). Once an opponent called for cheating and I shared the dice with him. He rolled constantly bad, and I still rolled very good. Sometimes this is akward, when you constantly make good rolls.
There are a very rare minority of people who can roll crooked dice without the dice ever being tampered with. It's often down to some complex sleight of hand and, in some cases, is often completely subconscious. These people are pretty rare 'though and I'm fairly sure I've only ever met one of them (and a second who claimed he could be proved to be a fairly average roller).
In my experience, there are a certain few dice that "tend" well for me... One D20, I've carried for years now, rolled nothing higher than 8 for more than six YEARS... AND another oddball D20 rolled absolutely nothing from my hand except a 20... for three years... some tens of thousands of rolls, too... I got curiously driven about the matter... SO those particular two, along with a small selection of other "old buddies" (?) I carry separate from the bag... I have no problems lending them... AND I do admit to the weird trends to GM's when I show up to a table for the first sessions... That's only fair (in my opinion)... AND for the record... No. The "oddballs" didn't seem to do a damn thing for anyone but me... Further, any other dice I rolled seemed to be completely and ordinarily random... Occasional trends happen with dice, as with any number-generating tech'... high or low. ;o)
I used to have a little red d6 (known as "Little Reddy" which mostly rolled 1's, 3's, 5's and 6's with a heavy tendency towards 5. It was clearly hand made with the holes drilled into it and wasn't even remotely a perfect cube. It wasn't used often because it felt like a loaded die (even 'though, in this case, it was probably just badly made). I wonder what happened to it. Haven't seen it in years now.
I have a single metal d6 that is really fun to hold and use, but it never rolls above a 3 for me. Trying to prove my point about the die once upon a time, I rolled it 15 times in a row and got nothing over a 3. Handed it to a buddy, he rolled 5's and 6's over and over, another guy had a normal spread, and when they handed it back to me it went back to staying below 3. I never use that d6 because of how poorly it rolls for me.
I don’t care if people found this unhelpful. If you realize this isn’t what you were looking for, move along. I found this pretty funny. “Oh, it went under the page, it’s a 15”. “ON A 12 SIDED DIE?”
Well... It make him forget several important details on the topic: *(1)* Metal dice are heavier than plastic dice. - Thus they are more noisy when rolled. *(2)* Metal dice have sharper edges than plastic dice. - Thus they are more likely to leave scratch marks at the table. *(3)* Metal dice can have nickel in them. - That can be (real!) irritating for those with nickel allergy. Now he directs this at the players, thus skipping that the real cause of bad dice behaviour is more often the GM's fault than it is the players's! Simple ways for the GM to reduce these problems are: *(1)* Reduce the amount of dice rolls called for. - And a nice side effect: It increases the quality of the role play! (Less distractions, which dice rolls causes, interrupting the role play.) *(2)* Choose a RPG system that uses less dice rolls. - Again: That increases the role play quality. *(3)* Choose a RPG system that always call for more than one dice rolled at the same time. - As most of peoples bad dice behaviours arise when they have to roll the dice one at a time! *(4)* Choose a PRG system that only uses one type of dice. - Cures the "what dice to use" -problem! *(5)* Have your PCs be in the leading roles. - Dice tower building is a sign of that the player is reduced to a spectator role.
I am extremely new to Dungeons and dragons as ive played one campaign (1 hour weekly for 3 months) but i find it extremely fun to roll low to see what crazy situations the DM puts me through XD
I had a player who was struggling to keep his dice under control one night. Totally out character for him. Anyway, funniest bad roll I've ever seen. Ricocheted off his book and landed in a full coffee cup. Much more careful the next game.
2 reasons I can think I'd want glowing dice:
1: so if they roll under a couch by mistake, they can be easily found.
2: so you can avoid stepping on a d4 in your bare feat in a dark room and taking 1d4 piercing damage.
Genuinely got a chuckle, well done
lol that piercing damage sucks
It's more like 1d4-1, but of course minimum 1 unless damage resistance, but not a lot of barbarians play with four-sided dice..
Sorry, I'm metagaming.
Also if the dm gets way too into submersion and turns out the lights when you go into a cave (the submersion dm is actually like my dream dm, but the darkness would have to be warned about lol)
Legos do 2d8.
I’m not saying you’re cheating, but when a 20 comes up on your d4...
depends on the game. its possible in pathfinder.
I lol’d so hard
in savage worlds, you can
@@JoeldaSilvaVicenteFilho: Depends on the system, it's easy to get a 20 from D4's if you're playing Deadlands Classic and get lucky with the cards in character creation.
My trick as a DM to deal with weirdly consistent high rolls (like repeated natural 20s on a D4) i this:
- if the char is a Bard everything is a-okay
- otherwise kick player out for cheating
Honorable mention: that stupid D100 ball that rolls forever and you need quantum physics lab equipment to see which side is up.
I once had a DM with one of those.
HairyHariyama hey my guy we miiight have had the same dm. A bit of a stretch, but hey, who knows? Does Mossback ring a bell?
Just roll a d10 twice, once for the tens place and once for the ones place
I have one of those but I don’t use it in game. They roll forever! My favorite odd dice is the D3 lol
Deja vu They only roll forever if you put a lot of force behind them :P. Also, i too own a d100, but i use that when rolling for treasure or rewards, when the d100 comes out, you know good things follow it :P. Another thing, using a d100 for treasure is good because it means that, if i wanted my players to feel more involved with loot, i can roll the dice across the table to the player because of how well it rolls.
I’d like to add one more thing to the list:
People who throw the dice. They constantly throw the dice, bounces off the table, hits a player, bounces off the floor, kills a cat, tumbled down the expressway, buys a cup of coffee, gets late for work, comes home to a nagging Wife and finally rests on a bed showing the number 2.
I am designing a solution to that...
Sorry...
Love that lol
My friend tosses them sometimes but she tells us before she does so someone can keep it from falling. It’s usually when she’s completely done with everything. But since she tells us it’s just fun.
Throwing METAL dice is even worse. Stop damaging my table! lol
*this dude’s actually absolutely incredible at stacking dice.*
snea it’s pretty easy, they most of them have flat sides that face up
Frogg doggs yeah but he was also stacking it on his hand, which is neither perfectly still or flat. Also with the d10s in particular they have really small surfaces relative to the others, making it easier to unbalance when stacking on your palm
Such a great life skill to have.....
A friend of mine put it quite well. "If you have to cheat at group make believe, then I am truly sorry for you."
What if you don't cheat, but your invisible friend does?
that is why you don't let your invisible friend roll the dice without bright gloves on.
I do wonder why people cheat in D&D, It's a game with no distinct win state. Rules that say that fun or cool things are allowed to break them. a (good) DM that is willing to accomodate different types of play. And a (good) DM that can keep a challenge at a fun level. Just rolling a bit higher has no impact on the game AT ALL on the long run. Worst case you're gonna be the last person to find a magic item to balance your character to the group.
Tell that to Marcie.
R.I.P. Black Leaf
@@yusthavinfun I know it was months ago since you commented, but I have to say: What if you never hit or do anything amazing because you have such bad luck you never roll higher than 50% of the die thrown? No more than 10 on a d20, no more than 6 on a d12, etc? Since your character can't do anything from such poor rolls, where's the fun for you? Everything you try will fail, so why bother doing anything at all? Persuasion, always fail. Perception, also fail. I haven't cheated but I have to say it's really tempting when everyone gets to do cool stuff while your character repeated fails at things he's supposed to be skilled at. +7 to stealth? Sorry, your rolls are so bad you will never succeed in sneaking. +9 to hit? Sorry, AC for the boss is 18 and you can't seem to roll above an 8. Enjoy being the dead weight of the party!
I have actually had a DM give me a magic weapon that uses a bonus action to turn any miss into a hit because I went 3 sessions failing 85% of my attacks. As a monk... with +7 to hit and 3 attacks per turn... for 10 turns... until the party killed the thing I was trying to hit... with an AC of 17...
Oh it's a fifteen... "ON A TWELVE SIDED DICE?!?;?"
i mean he did kinda forget about stat modifiers/proficiency bonuses...
A Person don’t matter in d&d it’s about having fun and imagination u can always break the rules
It's quantum mechanics
This video has inspired me to buy the tiniest, see-through, irregularly shaped dice on the market.
"Ways you may be doing Dice Wrong"
More like:
"Ways you're definitely cheating, but I'm not saying that you're cheating"
"If you couldn't hit the table, you couldn't hit the creature." Laughed for so long after that.
lol. My first tabletop group had the "you take it wherever it lands" rule. So if it rolled off the table under the couch, unless some outside force acted on it, you had at least two players pulling the couch out of the way to look at it before picking it up. It could get pretty funny at times.
"I want to do a Perception check; I rolled an 18 plus 3."
"Oh, you want to do a Perception check? Roll it for it now."
As a dm it's annoying when people assume their turn before hand so I get why they'd do this
@@howdyishere5302 It's bad etiquette and easy to cheat, rolling before saying why.
@@StellaTheKitsuneWatches agreed
I have one comment on odd shaped dice - a standard d4 doesn't roll worth a damn. I've seen someone with a d4 shaped like a log and that rolled a lot better.
Get a D4 with the shape of a D8, not uncommon and easy to find. Not any irregular shape.
Still if you shake the d4 in your hand and then toss it, it will be plenty random enough...
I toss it into the air a little.
Agreed. This video served an additional purpose in terms of making me look up weird shaped dice. Need to get some of those log shaped d4 dice. You really have to put effort into making regular d4 roll at all, and even then it's so unsatisfying.
Yeah, d4s I end up throwing up in the air so it spins airborne before landing, but you're right, it doesn't roll. It'll land on the number it hits the table with.
There's a perfectly good reason not to let someone touch your dice: their name is Wil Wheaton. I ain't gonna take that dice curse.
yannick martens nope the name is terry from my group
He is the literal only reason i actually believe in blood curses. That poor, poor bastard. :(
His name is Sean, and he shant touch my dice.
I keep all of my dice on the table with the highest number up so all the atoms settle at the bottom.
I know its BS, but the entire groups also does this now after I got 4 nat-20s (open-rolled) in a row.
Physics
I do that more because sometimes I get compulsive about stuff
Oh no no no, you gotta keep the dice on 1's so that they want to roll something new!
LOL I'm guilty making dice towers while waiting for my turn in combat.
i really hope you are playing a barbarian
i would tolerate it as DM if the barbarian player was that way xD
When you're waiting for the fighter to finish their attacks...with advantage...
@@waynecarrjr.1187 advantage doesnt really make the whole attack longer though. he just needs to roll 2 D20 instead of one, and pick the higher one. your fighter might consider playing a barbarian, if advantages manage to slow him down lol
I also made a dice tower as a barbarian and when waiting for one of my team mates to pick spells to be able to use then after I went for a small animal to use as an weapon threatened to kill him and won over the love of my animal with another team mate before he finished
I play with a guy who does it all the time
I especially dont understand the people that dont like others borrowing their dice for a roll. Personally, I love letting someone use my dice because I feel like ive added something to their roll. For example, if someone is rolling damage for a fireball, and doesnt have enough dice, i love letting the use my d6 and then seeing how much damage my die did for them.
I feel like you have to read the situation before making the assumption that people are OK with their dice being touched or borrowed. If someone is worried about their dice being unintentionally mixed in with another set of dice, and forever lost, that could be a valid reason to not want someone to borrow their dice. Most of my dice are not part of a set, and could be easily mixed up if used with another set of mixed dice. If everyone has their dice in easy to distinguish sets, and I'm the only one who brought a few pounds of random dice, than I have no issue with people using the extras. And then there are some players who are just superstitious and don't want their luck to rub off if someone else uses their dice.
I have a ridiculous amount of dice sets and provide dice for everyone in our game because most are super new and I didn't expect them to buy dice for a game they've never played before. The only ones I don't let people use are my metal d20, my very 1st set I ever got, and my Batman die. And that's only because I don't want them to get lost cuz our players tend to knock dice everywhere..lmao
I am a little superstitious only around one player I let him borrow my d20 once then I proceeded to roll three consecutive ones with it
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I understand, I literally am buying a set for me and my friends to share.
I have two bag of dice, one bag for others to use one bag for myself and mine alone. the reason is that if i buy the dice set i buy it for myself. do u like when someone touch your stuff? if u do good on ya. but if someone doesnt thats their right to not let others touch them.
i will share with u a story, i came to a new table with a bunch of strangers. and this one guys sit next to me keep eating his chips lick his fingers AND THEN he wanna touch my stuff and he keep wiping his nose with his bear hand. this is the reason why i never let anyone touch my stuff.
I had a player that had the Japanese character for the numbers on her dice. Needless to say, as my understanding of Japanese is minimal at best, I insisted she not use those dice. But the funny thing is that she didn't know what they said either and had to consult a chart to know which number was up. Oh. My. God. What a terrible time-waster!
Standard house rule in my games: if the GM can't read your dice easily, you don't get to use them.
standard house rule in a lot of places, honestly
HectorGrey and Jennifer Rogers: Well, it wasn't at my table, but then the people I play with don't usually roll that way. ;) However, I'm thinking it's a good house rule.
BTW, why not get a grab bag of garbage dice, partially as a penalty for those who either forget their dice or bring dice that aren't really usable.
As a DM that rarely has to be a tyrant about dice and dice rolls (my table is pretty well chilled and mature about the subject) I do keep several sets of dice extra in my DMing kit, for several reasons:
1. Players forget things
2. Guests usually are not as well prepared as table regulars
3. The Laura Bailey-style Dice Jail is a real thing, and it gets full some nights
4. While I have 3 sets of dice that are my absolute favorites, It's nice to mix things up occasionally.
5. If ever I encounter a set of dice brought by a player that we suspect may not be a fair set of dice, and we discover through testing (salt water buoyancy/roation for example) then we have one or more sets of dice that are known to be fair already waiting in the wings, to keep the game going.
Spare sets of dice are a good thing
Where did she get them? I need them! (I'm learning Japanese, already know all the characters for that lol) prob wouldn't use them, but they would be so cool to have
Glow in the dark dice: for when they fall off the table and end up in someplace that's too dark for you to normally see them
I like to play my Call of Cthulhu game in a somewhat gloomy athimspheare. For this, gloomy dice are very good.
Sounds cool. All my dice do is make me almost bleed out.
I have glow in the dark dice. only found out they glow after i received them and took them out of the package
Great for when you are making your dice tower and they fall under the table.
I agree with these points because of one important principle: Not only must you not cheat, but you must be SEEN to not be cheating. Like with any conflict of interest it is always better to make things as transparent as possible to remove all doubt, no matter how honest a person you may be.
Rob Glenn true enough but then again remember this is for recreational roll playing games not for playing craps with hundreds of dollars at stake
The appearance of impropriety is almost as bad as the real thing.
I’m a newish player to d&d and I’ve only done one of those sins the dice tower but that was before a game due to waiting for a player to turn up
But one other tosser that should have been here is the flat/no momentum roller
Same. One of our players was sneaking alone to a cave about 5 miles away and he was thinking of a strategy. It took almost 5 minutes, so I had built the tower while waiting.
Or people who roll their dice with way too much momentum. "Oops it seems my d20 is across the table and room. Hold on ill go get it. (Does it again)"
@@noobpro9759 that is less of a problem imo than the no momentum roller. some people roll so slow, or rather just drop the die, that there is physically no possibility to ever see one particular side of the die up. they basically half the possible outcomes. and i am talking about people who also dont shake the die in their hand, just pick up and drop.
for me, the die has to make a least one complete circulation or it doesn't count
@@XpVersusVista you've never played with my idiot brothers. rolling the dice off the table even though ive made them dice trays, they literally set their dice in the tray and take them out to roll not to mention their, dumb ideas, forgetting where they are and circumstances instantly, playing on their phones, raping each other in game, sexually harassing my characters in game. my brothers are literally the worst people to play dnd with. they just hurt.
@@noobpro9759 honestly your brothers sound like they weren't raised at all, where the hell are your parents? and yeah, don't play dnd with them, just raping for fun, even if its just a game, is disgusting as hell
Who knew anybody could talk for 20 minutes about dice rolling technique.
The brits man... gotta love 'em :)
Heh, that's nothing, I've seen a video of a guy ranting for over an hour about different types of dice and techniques that anger him and I've had even longer conversations with friends over the finer points of dice etiquette.
Nah this dude needs help. I came across him like a few weeks back. I don't know if its a character or over acting. Either way, I wouldn't want to pull up a chair at this dudes table unless there was a camera crew to record the melt downs over sounds.
Well he rolled a d20 for time he rolled a 18
TIL: Someone's peed in Guy's Cheerio's again, and he wants to live in Ancient Rome.
BTW, Guy, you've missed my one major peeve with "dice rolling": The Table Slapper. This is someone who picks up the die/dice needed, and without as much as a ceremonial shake, slaps them down on the table. It's not a coin flip, and even in a coin flip, it's at least tossed in the air, caught after several revolutions, and then slapped down on someone's hand.
Is that just when they don't shake the dice before doing it, or is it that method of rolling that bothers you? I've been wondering if it's generally considered acceptable to roll that way, as long as you attempt to randomize them with a good shake. For practical purposes, it'll allow me to get everything in a central area and eliminate any dice falling off the table or getting lost, so it would be nice if I could do it. I don't know if there are any issues with randomness.
Not infected So long as you shake it, and don't look at it before slapping it down, it really shouldn't affect the probability. However, it is a way that can allow a skilled person to cheat, so your dm may not allow it. If you make a tent over the die with your hands, so people can hear it roll to a stop, that can be a good way to contain your rolls.
I should have read before adding my own, as this is one of my peeves. even if you shake them, RPG polyhedrals are so big that you don't give them a good tumble in your hand before the slap. And, as mentioned, it intro's a means of cheating. Not hard to pinch the d20 on the number you want and rattle the other dice before the slap.
If you want to contain your dice so they don't go everywhere get a cup. Shake them in the cup then quickly flip it over and slam it on the table. When you pick up the cup the numbers will be shown with no chance of you messing with the numbers.
I saw a video on cheating at dice some years ago where slapping the dice down without rolling was exactly how it was done.
I think one of the Dice Tossers you forgot is the Craps Tosser. Everytime they roll the dice they have to launch their dice across the table like a projectile hitting other players, objects on the table, or most of the time having the dice fly off the table and fall onto the floor.
lmfao. My character and another person at the table have a growing friendship. and we have become slight buds from it. His b day was a session ago and he was admiring my new dice. The exact ones in the intro. So i went ahead and bought him some rose gold and pink ones since that's his fav color. His first roll of the night is the d20. and these are heavy compared to plastic. Well he does his roll and it goes flying right on top of his mini and broke him giant scythe off the figure. LOL cracked me up. We just glued the weapon back on. he was a more careful next roll.
I actually have a house rule in my game to prevent that. Any dice that lands of the floor counts as a 1. No exceptions. Applies to me (the GM) as well as the players. Encourages everyone to chill it a bit with their dice throwing.
@@DDdreamer90 Same rule here.
@@DDdreamer90 addition to that rule for "dice droppers": every role that does not at least do one full rotation also counts as a failure
i hate people who literally just let their die fall out of their hand, instead of rolling it. it is also a form of cheating
@@XpVersusVista I did that once by accident because we were playing while having dinner so there wasn't a lot of space for rolling, I immediately rerolled it properly.
For someone so angry about dice towers, you build an impeccable tower yourself..... suspicious.....
I confess - when things get slow I build towers... or spin them like little tops.
On the plus side, I don't do anything that could be misconstrued as cheating, and I cannot stand dice that look good but are unreadable.
We've all played with "that guy." I try not to play with "that guy" if I can help it.
I do this too, but I also play on a soft mat so I make less sound.... My table is also full of newbs, so they take a REALLY long time figuring out what they want to do on their turns. I DO listen, but my hands get idle v.v
TheVexinator elven numeric dice with decorative runes... Pretty but useless.
*shoots nerf blaster at tower*
Me too
No thoughts about the folks who get the giant metal dice that are loud as hell and crack your table when they roll?
Ug. Hate that.
Then they don't know how to use them courteously. I have a tin that my dice came in. I use the cap to roll the dice on so it doesn't dent tables or papers.
Nope he wants to sell you some of those lol
Matt Briddell I have a set of iron dice; not oversized, just average. I love them; they look awesome, and no one else in my group has anything like it. They’re clearly mine. But rolling does suck. So now I’ve saved some paper towels to roll it on, so it doesn’t scratch anything.
Roll them on a dice tray, you don't roll them on the table
I do the dice tower lol. I still listen but I will still occupy my hands with a tower
Yeah honestly i have a hard time focusing on what people are saying if i don't have something to occupy me.
I also don't make a fuss or let dice go on the floor if it falls over.
I used mini dice exclusively up until I could get one of those lined rolling trays. I didn't know it irritated people, though; I just have a really bad audio sensitivity and dice rolling was one of those sounds that gave me tension migraines very quickly. So I'd play with my mini dice and cover my ears whenever someone next to me rolled. Glad I don't have to do that anymore (as long as I remember to bring my box with me), but there was a reason for the mini dice that went beyond "Oh, I just think they're darling!"
I'm pretty sure mini dice only irritate this guy ahaha
@@gloomycandy101 detected the mini dice user :P
as long as they are not COMPLETELY mini or rather micro dice, its ok. but there are D6's that are smaller than the finger nail on my little finger.
Mini dice don't irritate people, Guy was just listing everything he could think of in this video.
I like my mini dice cause I keep them on my key chain, so I can always have them with me
You obviously missed the critical role episode where will Wheaton touched someone else's die. They had to then have the die put down because it was cursed.
Well, that's Will Wheaton. His touch is, scientifically speaking, proven to curse dice.
Yeah never touch someone else dice without asking. I hate it especialy if the person in question have a load of his own dice. There is a reason I have spare set that I lend people that have forgotten theirs. :)
That's an exception. Will Wheaton is know to harbour a highly potent dice curse and dice he touches must be destroyed. That was like half of the expenses for table top, buying new dice as well as having to fully sterilise the bodies of those who touched the dice with water infused with Taliesin Jaffe's eldritch powers.
to be fair Wil is old school, and he knows better than to touch someone else's dice.
The die wasn't Khary's, it was gifted to him after being touched by Wheaton. And, as has already been said, Wil Wheaton is very well-known for his cursing abilities (see: when the players got him to touch the table (and Mercer's dice iirc) to try to help them against a major boss fight)
I love fancy, glittery, sparkly dice as long as they are legible. my Dice Pet Peeve are the players who bring freakishly large heavy dice. who needs to roll a 2 pound D20? It's not bowling for kobalds.
lmao you have a great point
I completely agree. Also, Kobalds?
I find scale-less kobolds hilarious and am going to put them in my game.
I don't mean to rag on your spelling, goodness knows I hate that too. It just put a really funny image in my head of wrinkly, pink little lizard bubs running away from a barbarian.
Though bowling for kobolds sounds like a great idea. Thanks for the idea!
Bowling for kobolds sounds fun
Bowling for kobolds is fun... Gnome tossing is even better.
I had a character (a thief) who was a champion gnome-tosser. But he /hated/ gnomes. So, he would always clandestinely swap the gnome-catching receptacle (a bag of holding) with his own bag... A bag of devouring.
"If the romans caught you cheating at dice, they would cut your hand off"
My favorite quote this year I laughed so hard at that
I have a player the usually plays fighters, he rolls all of his hits at the same time. Once I figured out what he was doing I loved it as it sped up the game. He makes 4 attacks, he rolls 4 D20s then for each that hit he rolls the damage dice all together. It’s a lot faster than 1 at a time
exactly in more than one instance it saves alot of time this guy is literally just a complainer i sat through this whole video and besides the ways he listed that people obviously use to cheat its a gigantic waste of time.
I couldn't do that with my ranger build, one of my subclass abilities relies on me making my second hit for more damage. If I rolled all my attacks at once id be able to cherry pick the attack order.
@@phantomfang1927 not if you pre-select them by color.
Red First, Blue second, Green 3rd, etc
But what if you hit and kill an enemy, and have another enemy within reach with a different AC? Which attack roll do you use for each? Which dmg roll?
My favorite tosser is the Home-runner: you have a 50x250cm table, there is a specific bowl in which the dice are meant to be rolled in, yet, somehow, they will throw it as if they are trying to hit the enemy with the dice, instead of using to determine whether they hit or not, and the thing hits the bowl, launches itself to the other side, kick off the table, into the ground and probably into a wormhole or interdimensional portal to hell, never to be found again - of course, stopping the game for 10 minutes to find it, and then having that player constantly distracted because they are still looking around trying to find their dammed die.
shoot the dice straight to faerun! xD
Oh, oh, I've got one to add!
People who don't know that "dice" is the plural form of "die"...
Semantics.
Yes. Terrible, I hate those people.
Ahhh!!!! I thought it was the other way around!
THIS!
@Jack Gibson 1 die, 2 dice. Think of it as saying "dies".
I do find it acceptable to roll your D20 and your damage dice together in the event that you hit you will know damage immediately. It does not affect the randomness of either die, and only really happens to speed up combat if short on time.
I only recently heard that some people do this, or even consider it a mandatory practice.
I see the logic of it, but it still seems wrong to me, like you're tempting fate.
Regarding the "don't touch my dice" one, I largely agree, but if someone has a tendency to roll the dice so hard that they frequently fall onto the floor, I could totally understand someone not wanting to give their special dice to that person.
I knew a guy in organized play that would roll on his laptop keyboard and had suspiciously good rolls. Venue organizers were non-confrontational, so after many complaints, they instituted a venue-wide rule of rolling in the open. Then the guy suddenly started rolling tiny 1-mm translucent dice, after only using standard dice before that. Then came the rule that there needed to be dice result confirmation from another player, if not the GM. Then there were like three more of these venue rules changes, all the while they guy never realized he was the target.
Sounds like a real tosser.
I'd specify "Standard dice of XX mm size of the same shapes as XXXX set by XXXX manufacturer, numbers clearly visible. and rolled in view of at least 2 others."
Dice trays strongly encouraged. Dice towers that will bounce the dice as they pass through also encouraged.
Publish it in the rules before the event.
We just use "standart dice" at the table for everyone. If someone wants to bring something different (unique looking or shaped dice) - if at least one person at the table is against that, it's a veto. Democracy for the win
My friends and I once had the idea that when we'd go into a dark dungeon in D&D, we'd turn off all the lights, and only the people with darkvision would get glowing dice...
Needless to say that we did not think that through...
"If you can't hit the table you can't hit the creature!" Indeed! Had me rolling! (pun intended)
How dare you insult my dice towers
Recovering tower-builder, here. DMing really underlined how distracting it is for everyone...
BoojumFed this is really helping me on my road to recovering from dice tower building, just knowing I'm not alone.
Yeah, as someone with ADHD and as someone who's DM'ed, the dice tower builder is a symptom of a much larger problem: Boring or slow DM's.
I've been on both sides. Frequently dice builders are bored because they feel the game is going slowly but don't want to disrupt another players moment.
I'm guilty as well, I must admit.
And on the flipside, in some cases it can be a way to better pay attention. In my case it often helps me because it keeps my ADHD under control.
(It is also important to check if it bothers the other players. If not, happy building)
Im super adhd, dice towers and doodles keep me sane for a 4 hour session.
4 hour sessions? who does such short sessions haha, 6-8 hours is where its at (with breaks and pizza of course)
Same.
I'm actually diagnosed with ADHD. I swear I'm listening, I just have a hard time physically sitting still.
Towers can fall and doodles have the potential to actually be so interesting, that I forget to listen. But I found a solution:
Therapy knead!
@@XpVersusVista People with Jobs, People with families, people with pets, people with lives outside being a neck beard basement virgin who do nothing but play games all day.
I don't even play dnd or any tabletop game that uses dice but I loved watching this guy get shook.
"Small dice are irritating!"
But... but they're smol.
You must be irritating too
I hate sand
@@UA-cam.Commen-tater
Because its irritating or because it reminds you of small dice?
Ugh.
is that makeup or did a smurf ejaculate all over your face?
"I need my lucky die for this roll!"
"You're saying that you've observed an inaccuracy in the die, and you continue to use it?"
if a standard die rolls favourably enough for me to deem it observably lucky, then hell yea im gonna use it. It's not modified, therefore its not cheating. its just luckier than most.
IceFire1800 so true who wants to roll ones
I have a set of “lucky” dice that I’ve tested multiple times in salt water. They have no bias towards either side, but I always seem to roll well with them.
@@ggwp638BC with a perfectly balanced d20, you can still role 20 20s in a row
I have a set of dice that hate me. Do I desperately need to succeed? Nat 1. Do I want to fail this roll for comedic purposes? Nat 20. The opposite of what I want to happen always happens. I keep them for comedic value.
I find it irritating when people use the plural for the singular.
I also hate dice that are overly ornate. Why would you want a die that is so overly ornate that you cannot even see the number?
die and dice is acceptable for singular, also Lou Zocchi called a singular die a dice so yeah...it's annoying.
Dice are plural. A die is singular. Where did you think the phrase "the die is cast" came from?
Dirus Nigh dwarven runic dice with block trim.
I love my pretty dice, but I always keep my simple ones on hand for actual play.
Dirus Nigh This is my exact problem with last dice set I bought. Got so caught up in the "This is so cool; I must have it" of the Dragon theme for the dice that I forgot about practicality. All the dice have a dragon wrapping around each of the dice around the number, making it harder to read. Suffice it to say, really regret having bought those dice, especially for 12 bucks.
I’m a dm and I sometimes make dice towers behind my screen to stop myself from interrupting some good rp.
Edit: My players think I’m taking notes.
I thought this was going to be about the person who throws thier dice across the table
I build towers lol, but the thing is everyone even the dm makes towers
Yes... its a natural phenomena, like smelling a bad thing twice or baby talking to your pets.
Same, i do it to keep my mind at bay or to kind of tell the dm "hey this is kind of boring"
I've been a player for years, but I took my SO to her first campaign two weeks ago. I swear to god it only took her 20 minutes to start stacking and nobody else had in front of her.
*P r e a c h*
After stumbling here from other videos, i can say that this man really, REALLY does not liek his game to be slowed down. He also has a thing for calling out people who may be cheating. He also seems to get more upset as the video goes on... but that might just be my imagination.
10/10 would watch again.
I think his initial englishness hides his anger during the beginning.
I NEED to send this to one of my players. He always rolls his dice behind his rule book, and, whenever I say something about it, he says that he should be allowed to, because I do it sometimes..... EVEN THOUGH I'M THE GM. (I always hide my NPCs' perception rolls and every 3rd attack roll.)
Just reply that GM stands for something and it is a new name for Referee+Narrator, so you actually decide if, how and when the rules (do or do not) apply. The GM *is* a special player and that is going strictly by the ruleset, so if your player does not want that, they may go play some other game (some collaborative GM-less RPG even).
@@EmptyKingdoms I totally agree with that. I'm usually pretty flexible with the rules. If a player really wants to do something and it won't hurt anyone else's experience, then I'm more than happy to reward their creativity and bend the rules. It just irritates me a bit when I'll let them do pretty much anything, yet they still resort to borderline cheating.
@@kramerfortuna7228 due is cheating. If he has to make a stance against laying a book down its not to be like the gm. Its to fudge rolls. You table has a cheater dude.
@@melodygallagher5909 Yeah... you're totally right. I THINK we worked things out, though. We'll see soon enough. I'm taking a short break to prepare another campaign. Hopefully no problems next time! (Thanks for the concern!)
@@kramerfortuna7228 just tell him "oh you can keep rolling behind a book if you want. i'll just count them as 1's :)" and be done with it. either he stops his bullshit, constantly crit fails, or leaves the table. honestly, with a player saying what he said, i would prefer the option of him just leaving, he is clearly too stupid to understand the special role of the GM
Who hurt you?
Some guy who kept doing this shit probably.
KodeeDentares 🤣ur wildddd fr thoo
Yikes there's a lot to unpack here
That one stray d4.
Let me start from the beginning... it all started from childhood.
went into this video expecting to hate it because i thought you would be extremely pedantic like some people i've heard, ended up loving all of it, it's all common sense
a Guy in my adventure league group would throw his dice like 2 feet in the air, it would bounce all over the place. The DM even asked them to stop doing that, but that only would work for a couple of rolls. It took forever and would knock things over.
I ended up quitting that group cause i couldnt take it anymore.
Teeon Highhill the Looney dice roller should face sanctions; you shouldn't have to leave the game, the Looney roller should ultimately have to go
*shoots Loony Roller with nerf blaster*
I always have two rules. First, if the DM didn't see the result, the roll doesn't count. Second, you must declare why you're roping before you do.
I felt so called out about stacking dice. It's not that I'm not paying attention tho, but sometimes I just like to do it.
I'm usually the dm btw lmao
Hey, i think all dnd players have some kind of superstition they follow when it comes to their die rolls. One of my friends always sits at a specific spot at the table we normally use and if he arrives late and doesn't get that chair or if we're playing in another location, he will move around the table constantly and if he keeps getting bad rolls he'll start to roll on the floor saying and i quote "I need a level surface". I guess he's implying that his normal spot is the only place on the table that's actually level. Another person i used to play with ( i don't any more) used to buy a set of dice, roll them and if the die were coming out bad too often he would line up all of his other dice so that they could watch and he would smash the bad die with a hammer...because i guess a public execution would frighten the other dice into rolling well. Me, before i actually start a game i roll the die several times until i'm getting more good rolls then bad and if anybody asks why i tell them "i'm getting the bad rolls out of the way before we start"
The public execution had me laughing for like 5 minutes XD
it used to keep me laughing too. he had many sets of mismatched dice.
Well sometimes bad quality dices are "loaded" because of air pockets. It can go both ways. I have a die which tends to roll a lot of 19s and the close numbers. Fortunately or not depending on how you see it, itsq uite bad because it often ends on 1 which is just next to 19. I guess rolling a dice one hundred time can give you a hint on its quality, and if it is obviously loaded toward some bad value, better keep it for thoses systems in which low rolls are good, or just throw the die away
Whew, those dice you showed off at the start, beautiful.
I know someone who bought perfectly clear dice to give to his players when they forgot theirs. They only forgot them once after that.
I heard a story about a guy who picks up dice as they roll, and everyone playing knew they were cheating as they'd constantly get 18+ on all their rolls. So one guy passed him a d12 for a d20 check, and he was like "got a 20" and they were like you got a 20, on a d12?
The worst is when people roll multiple attacks at once and don't resolve the damage until all their attacks are resolved, and then the last monster dies on the first attack and they wasted rolling a d20 another 3 or 4 times.
Getting an 8 on your perception check, what a scrub :P
My favorite has always been
Me: “Roll a D8 for damage”
PC: *rolls a d6*
Me: m8 wot?
well if he wants to handicap himself, let him xD
"If you're playing in the dark, you have all other sorts problems don't you" 😂
I love it when you're sassy and sarcastic, it makes these all the more enjoyable.
that was a good dice tower tho
Practice makes perfect
And balanced in his hand too. Very impressive
I love to get a feel for my dice, BEFORE we start playing. I may roll my dice 50 times before the DM says "Last we left our heros" But once the game starts, if the dice leaves your hand its final. If it falls off the table you take the number it landed on or you instafail. We have dice boxes to roll in. If you ignore it then the results are your own. We roll where EVERYONE can see the dice. Period.
Back in the dark ages of RPGs (1984) we use to have several sets of extra dice on the table just for those that needed an extra couple of d6 or whatnot.
"If they work for you and only you that's a loade-"
No. Loaded dice are dice that are weighted to fall on a specific number. No other thing is a loaded dice. Being "attuned" or "Personal" don't make dice loaded.
Used to play with a girl who picked up her dice every time she rolled it.
Sadly, she was a cheater. Never played with her again.
Jazz Jackrabbit as someone who picks but really tries not to rotate it or cheat the results... I do it because im excited and its quicker to move my arm than my torso.
If someone at the table tells me it bothers them i do try to leave it lie. Sadly it sounds like this girl was just a run of the mill cheater and not someone whos just compulsive in movement.
My first set of dice could hardly be read. So I would roll let it stop pick it up and read it if it was unclear. Otherwise I'd lean over the table and read it. Pretty quickly i just bought another set.
Jazz Jackrabbit lel
Good stuff and reminds me of the many irritating things players at my table try to get away with (they do not)! But...the singular of "dice" is..."die" :D
Preach!
Jawohl, honey. But I tend to think that I in fact do practice what I preach. Wha?
liking simply for the title. thanks for not saying “YOURE ROLLING YOUR DICE WRONG, HERES HOW YOU FIX IT” it’s refreshing to not see people screaming at you in their video titles
As a 5e Monk, I have multiple color coded sets. Blue d20+d8, red d20+d6, yellow d20+d6 so I can roll my weapon and flurry of blows at the same time. I always use the same (favorite) color as my weapon attack for consistency. This definitely speeds up my combat as I can just do a single roll and total up all the matching colors that succeeded. P.s. Don't touch my dice!! (I have spares if you came ill prepared, just ask)
I have ADHD. Dungeon masters need to stop asking people like me to pay 100% of attention all the time with all of my body parts always. If I am drawing or doing something with my hands, it's so I can listen. Not because I'm not listening. Its not about respect, or trying, or ability, or maturity. If you don't want me to make a dice tower, just make sure I feel like I'm allowed to have an alternative to fight with.
Because with nothing else to do 10/10 will dice tower.
Kathryn Livingston
Totally get that, yeah. One of my players will just start talking about life stuff in the middle of the game. I'll be explaining or describing a part of the scene and they'll just look at someone else and ask "Hey did you see that movie trailer about the etc etc?". Full volume, talking over the DM. Maybe I'm too sensitive, but that was obnoxious as all hell.
So long as the player responds aptly when referred too, I see no problem.
That's part of the reason I became a DM. I have pretty bad ADHD. I can concentrate better as a DM than as a player.
Yes! I draw to listen and pay attention my whole life. Lecture? Doodle Page while my ears focus.
If they respond appropriately when addressed, are aware of what's going on and aren't actually bothering anyone, leave them be. I always hated that about school and work, and about some of my friends too. I would read in class and otherwise it's listening, either to audio books or to music, I need them to focus and stay calm, without them I can't focus and become prone to rapid (and often severe) changes in mood. Some people catch on quick; if the headphones come off and the book shuts, if I doesn't look like I'm clinging to every word, leave.
14:06 ... unless you’re Wil Wheaton...
*SHOTS FIRED*
That guy's bad dice rolls are fucking insane
laughable, we havea guy at our gaming club that just have to pass by the table to curse everyones dice :)
I love dice towers. I always make sure when it falls to try and catch it. Helps me focus on the game honestly. Just sitting makes my mind wander
Levi V , I have ADHD and sometimes it helps to have something to fidget with. I will play with my dice or doodle on my character sheet. It really does help me focus and does not mean I’m bored.
I love this video! When I am having a tough time with something, Guy has a way to bring sunshine on my cloudy day... And for the record... I can relate to all of his complaints.
I prefer my players do not use software applications to make rolls. I have politely asked them to roll dice. If they do not have dice, I have more than enough to spare.
Wardler - I hate dice apps. The algorithm rate is deplorable and just doesn't equate to the feel of actually rolling real dice.
I love the feel of rolling dice. The only thing I hate about online play is the lack of physical dice rolling. Why you would opt for electronic at a physical table (unless you need it for GM purposes) is beyond me.
I like dice apps for fireball (adds them up automatically) or when a Street Sam needs to make a resistance roll (Shadowrun he was tossing 34 dice, 5s and 6s are successes so I had skinned the D6 to have red for 1s, blue for 5s and 6s and beige for the rest ... they also had numbers, photoshop can change your background colour pretty easy), in short I think they have a place ... Star Wars dice app is nice, but those dice are weird. Not sure if anyone running the games I play care one way or another, they haven't mentioned anything.
I generally hate dice apps. One exception may be for when one or more are playing via Roll20 or some other remote service. I'd still prefer to roll real dice and trust people to not cheat. Alas, that isn't universal.
One of my players uses a phone app. I allow it because the rolls and are resaults are clearly visible.
We had a DM that seemed to roll really lucky when he used someone else's dice but then we'd roll really poorly after he used it. It was like he sapped all the luck out of the die so it became somewhat of a joke and we designated a set of dice for him to use so he wouldn't touch ours anymore.
Aximil similar story. Our DM forgot his dice bag, so I lent him a d20. It had been rolling poorly for me, so I had decided to use a different one anyway. It continued to roll poorly the rest of the night. We are a superstitious bunch lol. Our DM even had a cursed dice tower. He used it one night and rolled 24 Nat 1s for a single session. It's bad luck continued during 3 or for sessions in different campaigns. He doesn't use it anymore...
@@amandabutcher23 making a Dice Tower from cursed dice would be a very fun prop for tabletop
@@FrancisR420 It could be a trophy. A cursed trophy.
Haven’t played one of these games for 3 years but I still come back to this video laugh at this legendary rant.
This one seriously cracked me up. His tone and frustrated humor perfectly encapsulates how I'd feel and respond lol
I'm surprised you didn't mention people who hold and shake their dice for 10 minutes before each roll.
Verse84 If you shake it more than 3 times you’re playing with it.
@@Epulor1 if you shake it at all you're playing with it but more than three times is gratuitous I agree
MY HUSBAND DOES THAT!!!! IT DRIVES ME CRAZY!!!!!!
how else am i supposed to enchant my dice before i roll?! Hmph!
Whenever I don't shake it people get mad at me
Quite frankly most of those irritating habits never even crossed my mind.
The only onne I feel a need to comment on is the one about superstition. concerning others touching your dice. As far as I am concerned, it is more about those borrowed dice for a while not rolling well for their owner as if being grumpy for having been handed over to someone else. Ultimately it is just superstition and I am aware of that, yet to me that is just a minor quirk and nothing to get upset about. Just because I prefer not to lend the dice I am using to others does not mean I have no spare dice which I have no such qualms about handing out. So basically I have one set of dice which I am using myself and then a bunch of spare dice to be used by whoever needs additional dice for any reason.
Also it is entirely possible that for some people this has nothing to do with the dice themselves, but rather some concious or subconscious phobia of germs or something of the like. Those things do exist and while the other displayed habits can indeed be irritating, this particular habit to me is an absolute non-issue.
He complains about people not letting others borrow dice, but then he mentions that guy who seems to have nore dice at the end of a session than the beginning. Maybe those two players sat at the same table?
This is the best video I’ve seen in this channel…. I’ve seen them all… the wrath of Guy is amazing!!
Love the Cpt Ahab/Kirk crossover look
Yep. This needed to be said. Thanks for being the one to say it out loud.
*sees dice*
My wallet: No Guy nooooo!
josh hoppstock I looked them up on Amazon and oh man that was a mistake.
YOU CAN NEVER HAVE ENOUGH DICE!
Just an FYI: I went to a game store today, and I didn't buy dice. Yes, it's possible to stand for several minutes admiring the dice available, and not get any. The struggle may be real, but you can do it. I have faith in you.
On a footnote, I did leave the store after buying a $60 USD Shadowrun book... Sooooo.... yeah.... the struggle is real.
Jack, might I suggest the Chessex Pound o Dice bag? www.chessex.com/Dice/poundofdice.htm
Indian0Lore: I've been looking at them. Not because they're beautiful, but for the opposite. They aren't beautiful, and thus, make a great set of loaner dice.
Players who roll dice over and over again, not for in-game rolls, but for the sake of rolling them. When I used to play at my public library, there was a guy that sat beside me that would fiddle with his d20 by rolling it over and over and over again. It bugged the absolute crap out of me! It is now one of my biggest pet peeves at the gaming table.
Holy crap, it is as if you typed my words with your fingers. I often run solo games - solo as in I am a GM and have one player or vice versa - and when I'm in a group and have that kind of dice fiddler on the table...
It is just irritating for the most part, especially when the GM just told someone to roll whatever skill check, but sometimes it makes me want to throw something at the face of said individual.
Not that that has ever happened before. At least not with something hard. Or thrown in a way that could injure :D
One of the players in a group with me as a GM had one of those heretics in it. Common sentences at the table were "I didn't ask for any skill check" or "What did you roll there?".
We usually played on a rather small table, so it was cramped to oblivion. One can imagine that the players weren't all that happy with him flinging his dice all over it all the time.
I do this.All the time. Doing it right now as a matter of fact. Just get so much enjoyment, and my DM hardly ever calls for rolls.
You would hate me at the table then lol I have physical tourrets so I can't sit still I end up throwing the dice from time to time and roll them without thinking about it but I let new players know before they feel obligated to endure it I understand it can be annoying for alot of people.
Literally every one of the 12 people I've played with "dry rolls".
My current group, we roll for about 20-30 minutes before actual character creation or play.
Funny thing, haven't seen it myself, but there is a superstition about rolling out the bad rolls with your d20s. Can see how that annoys however
I have never seen a man more passionate about dice
I'm the dont touch my dice type of tosser. Why you may ask because people are gross, I dont know where your hands have been. I would rather not have cheeto dust or crisp dust if your on this side of the pond all over my nice clean easy to read bacteria free (mostly) dice. If there are going germs all over my dice its going to be mine and just mine.
Great video.
I use Dice Rolling Zones, as I've got a pretty cramped table, but rolling off does result in a miss or fail.
Oddly, there's been a sudden acquisition of towers and boxes. Unrelated, I'm sure.
TheAmericanWay dang do you hate falling dice that much?
Cesar Gonzalez It's not that I hate falling dice, it's that eight people around a living room table just chucking willy-nilly results in lost dice, lost time looking for lost dice, and lost momentum as dice are mourned.
If I can avoid that by encouraging towers and boxes, that's a win-win.
I like the old Warhammer 40k 7th edition rule. "If your dice can't hit the table, your [Character] can't hit the enemy. All dice that fall off the table are treated as if the die showed a '1'."
I had the same thing. They kept rolling on the the floor and re-rolling, or rolling and saying that the die was cocked. So i bought little boxes from a craft store, and told them that any die that lands on the floor counts as 0. They complained for a while that they weren't rolling well into the trays. So some of them started rolling onto a book again and kept rolling onto the floor, they kept taking the 0's, so i started saying the next attack against you gets advantage if you roll on the floor & your roll still counts as 0.
The problem fixed itself
Best trick to succeed a morale check... ;)
You sound unusually upset today, Guy. Had a bad game recently? ;)
Roll Players can be really annoying!
Role players are lovely. Roll players tend to be rather frustrating.
Role players can be annoying. Watching a player roll down a hill, that's kind of funny
I roll multiple dice together because, frequently, I roll the damage roll and the "to hit" dice together to save rolling both motions. There isn't any confusion as to what they are for; I just feel my rolls are more random when I roll multiple dice. If I miss then I don't bother reading the damage dice. Fairly straightforward for me.
I don't think there is anything particularly wrong with rolling multiple dice, as long as A) The dice cannot be mistaken for one another and B) They are all relvent for the same roll. It doesn't work if the to hit and to damage dice are of the same type.
I do have a custom with my crit brass dice in that they are my bros. Usually the critical injuries inflicted on myself are very low (when the GM rolls them) and high for the targets. One time a player rolled the dice to try and save his own life and he rolled so high that he instantly died. Thankfully it was a relatively new character the player hadn't got too invested too, and I kinda joked that they had "recharged their luck from the latest sacrifice. XD" That being said, isn't a serious superstion, I just pick them up, roll them. Chuckle.
He was saying people who roll multiples of the same dice. So like rolling advantage every time.
In the games I run, it seems more suspenseful to roll your d20, then roll for damage if you hit. It seems less fun if everyone is rolling all their dice at one and shouting out numbers, generally at the same time.
Why the fuck would anyone think its okay to punish someone for rolling well? The whole pont of rolling high is to succeed. There is no succeeding so much you fail. You had a shitty GM.
Honestly, this makes digital random number generator sound really good.
Eh, those are all surprisingly skewed to one thing or another. The built on Google one for example seems to love getting a three on a D6 constantly.
I am, sometimes, an overly enthusiastic roller so my GM instituted the off the table rule. I now use a dice cup
*is a recovering off-the-table roller ^*
I and everyone I know or have met have ever counted a die roll that ended up off the table.
"The dice roll well for you, but nobody else?"
Anyone who has rolled the dice I regularly use can attest to the fact that they only roll well for me.
I have had the same experience. I used a set of dice in tabletop and I roll generally really good (Luck? I use a cup for rolling, so no cheating is involved even subconscious). Once an opponent called for cheating and I shared the dice with him. He rolled constantly bad, and I still rolled very good. Sometimes this is akward, when you constantly make good rolls.
There are a very rare minority of people who can roll crooked dice without the dice ever being tampered with. It's often down to some complex sleight of hand and, in some cases, is often completely subconscious. These people are pretty rare 'though and I'm fairly sure I've only ever met one of them (and a second who claimed he could be proved to be a fairly average roller).
In my experience, there are a certain few dice that "tend" well for me... One D20, I've carried for years now, rolled nothing higher than 8 for more than six YEARS... AND another oddball D20 rolled absolutely nothing from my hand except a 20... for three years... some tens of thousands of rolls, too... I got curiously driven about the matter...
SO those particular two, along with a small selection of other "old buddies" (?) I carry separate from the bag... I have no problems lending them... AND I do admit to the weird trends to GM's when I show up to a table for the first sessions... That's only fair (in my opinion)...
AND for the record... No. The "oddballs" didn't seem to do a damn thing for anyone but me... Further, any other dice I rolled seemed to be completely and ordinarily random... Occasional trends happen with dice, as with any number-generating tech'... high or low. ;o)
I used to have a little red d6 (known as "Little Reddy" which mostly rolled 1's, 3's, 5's and 6's with a heavy tendency towards 5. It was clearly hand made with the holes drilled into it and wasn't even remotely a perfect cube. It wasn't used often because it felt like a loaded die (even 'though, in this case, it was probably just badly made). I wonder what happened to it. Haven't seen it in years now.
I have a single metal d6 that is really fun to hold and use, but it never rolls above a 3 for me. Trying to prove my point about the die once upon a time, I rolled it 15 times in a row and got nothing over a 3. Handed it to a buddy, he rolled 5's and 6's over and over, another guy had a normal spread, and when they handed it back to me it went back to staying below 3. I never use that d6 because of how poorly it rolls for me.
I don’t care if people found this unhelpful. If you realize this isn’t what you were looking for, move along. I found this pretty funny. “Oh, it went under the page, it’s a 15”.
“ON A 12 SIDED DIE?”
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Great content, well delivered and excellent points
No, I'm just a usual sort of tosser.
I love it when Guy get's angry
Yeah, it does make the whole video way better :D
Nice seeing you here, also make more d&d vids you fucken snack
His accent makes him seem more menacing as an American. "Tosser" *chills*
Well... It make him forget several important details on the topic:
*(1)* Metal dice are heavier than plastic dice. - Thus they are more noisy when rolled.
*(2)* Metal dice have sharper edges than plastic dice. - Thus they are more likely to leave scratch marks at the table.
*(3)* Metal dice can have nickel in them. - That can be (real!) irritating for those with nickel allergy.
Now he directs this at the players, thus skipping that the real cause of bad dice behaviour is more often the GM's fault than it is the players's!
Simple ways for the GM to reduce these problems are:
*(1)* Reduce the amount of dice rolls called for. - And a nice side effect: It increases the quality of the role play! (Less distractions, which dice rolls causes, interrupting the role play.)
*(2)* Choose a RPG system that uses less dice rolls. - Again: That increases the role play quality.
*(3)* Choose a RPG system that always call for more than one dice rolled at the same time. - As most of peoples bad dice behaviours arise when they have to roll the dice one at a time!
*(4)* Choose a PRG system that only uses one type of dice. - Cures the "what dice to use" -problem!
*(5)* Have your PCs be in the leading roles. - Dice tower building is a sign of that the player is reduced to a spectator role.
Salty Guy is Great Guy
I am extremely new to Dungeons and dragons as ive played one campaign (1 hour weekly for 3 months) but i find it extremely fun to roll low to see what crazy situations the DM puts me through XD
Oooooh, I love this SO MUCH!!! :D I am completely with you! It's the same all over the world...
Props to that Dice Tower build
I had a player who was struggling to keep his dice under control one night. Totally out character for him. Anyway, funniest bad roll I've ever seen. Ricocheted off his book and landed in a full coffee cup. Much more careful the next game.
TL;DR
They're just dice;Roll with it.
Your demand for quality is superb and appreciated.