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    Weighted dice are dice where the weight is altered to make them more likely to land with a certain side down in order to produce a particular result. Casino dice are dice that are engineered to have each side give a 1/6 chance to a fraction of a percent margin of error. They are literally the opposite in intent and design to weighted dice, if you can't see this then you are even more of a moron than I thought.

    To put it in simple terms even you may be able to understand:

    Weighted dice: Weight is unevenly distributed to favour a particular result.
    Casino dice: Weight is evenly distributed so there is no favour to a particular result.
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    Rapture has clearly never been to a casino.
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    To spend hundreds if not thousands of pounds or dollars on a game and then buy cheap weighted dice, and then complain about it is rather silly.

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    I think it is quite clear, these are the best dice:
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfshade View Post
    I think it is quite clear, these are the best dice:
    My friend used to have on of those. During DnD he would insist on using it for all his percentage rolls. Was both incredibly hilarious and irritating.

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    I imagine that they take a long time to come to rest...
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    Quote Originally Posted by eldargal View Post
    Weighted dice are dice where the weight is altered to make them more likely to land with a certain side down in order to produce a particular result. Casino dice are dice that are engineered to have each side give a 1/6 chance to a fraction of a percent margin of error. They are literally the opposite in intent and design to weighted dice, if you can't see this then you are even more of a moron than I thought.

    To put it in simple terms even you may be able to understand:

    Weighted dice: Weight is unevenly distributed to favour a particular result.
    Casino dice: Weight is evenly distributed so there is no favour to a particular result.
    No need to throw insults because you are having trouble following along. Maybe take a break and try to calm down? The fact that someone as reasonable and intelligent as yourself thinks that I am a moron is almost too much to bear. Have some compassion for me.

    It does not matter how the dice achieve the advantage, what matters is that they achieve an advantage. An advantage is an advantage. That is very simple to understand. The problem is -with either weighted dice or casino dice- that one player purchased (a perfectly legal, rules-wise) advantage over the other. Or am I wrong?

    The advantage is exactly the same. The only difference is in intent and magnitude. Neither of which are important. An advantage of 1% is unfair and so is an advantage of 10%.
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    I can't believe you are back again.
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    Now to forget that he ever happened...
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    out of curiosity, if using square edged dice is gaining an unfair advantage, what would you do against someone who had bought GW's own square edged dice? they do not meet your standard, they do not apparently meet the standard intended by game designers, so what would happen? would you refuse to play them? make them use other dice? just curious.
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