What are the best dice in the world ever????????????????

[Denzark]

Hello peeps

The last chap I was playing had an awesome set of what i would refer to as 'Casino Dice' - all perfectly square, see through plastic, with dots printed on rather than indented. We were chatting and he said he saw some study or other where, in a mechanical contraption, over 1000 rolls, indented dice would be more likely to fall 6 side down - ie one up - especially normal rounded corner dice.

I have some ex-casion dice a relative brought back from Vegas for me and rate these as my most impartial dice. My worst dice are a batch of Flames of War Afrika Korps dice - the amount of times I see swastika (ie ones) is unreal.

I also have a Chaos Dice - with an 8 pointed star for 1. I use it for all key roles, and it is guaranteed to fail saves for my lord or make the game go onto turn 6-7 - at the worst posible moment.

Questions:

1. What are the ebst dice in the world ever?

2. Anybody got a good source of totally square, printed dot dice (pardon my lack of nomenclature)?

3. Anybody got a good source of custom dice with army icons etc?

[Pendragon38]

I'm a fan of rackem dice from AT-43......I get a lot of sixs.

[DarkLink]

1. There's a reason casinos use casino dice.

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3. You're just going to get stuck with chessix size dice, most likely. Plus, to be completely honest dice with icons are annoying for your opponent, because your opponent can't read them. I don't know if your icon represents a 6, or a 1, or if you're just cheating on me. It's kind of like picking up your hits rather than your misses so your opponent doesn't get a chance to verify them. It doesn't mean you're cheating, it's just kind of annoying for your opponent.

[daboarder]

1. There's a reason casinos use casino dice.

2. [url]http://lmgtfy.com/?q=casino+dice[/url]

3. You're just going to get stuck with chessix size dice, most likely. Plus, to be completely honest dice with icons are annoying for your opponent, because your opponent can't read them. I don't know if your icon represents a 6, or a 1, or if you're just cheating on me. It's kind of like picking up your hits rather than your misses so your opponent doesn't get a chance to verify them. It doesn't mean you're cheating, it's just kind of annoying for your opponent.

Really not that hard to pick a dice abnd random and see what number is on the opposite side of the dice to the symbol, its always going to be a 6 or a 1.

Personally I prefer to play against and opponent with custom dice, atleast their not then using the horribly weighted and holey GW ones.

[Xenith]

Personally, I see buying casino dice to gain a tiny advantage in a game of toy soldiers as somewhat pathetic.

I played against a guy using a massive tub of dice last week. The game started with him using Chessex custom dice (symbols on the 6), then after the game started going my way at around turn 3, he pulled out casino dice and started using them for armour saves, then in his turn 3-4/rest of game used them for all his rolls.

His dice did get noticably hotter, and I made a derisory comment about the casino dice. I felt sorry for him ,that he felt the need to push this tiniest of advantages.

Fortunately, my own dice took this slight upon their rolling to heart, and performed incredibly.



TL;DR: Using Casino dice instantly marks you out as TFG. I wont let you not use them, but I wont pull any punches. The most precise dice in the world wont save you from a kerb stomping.

[Wolfshade]

I don't see why you would change your dice, unless you know the ones you're using aren't weighted correctly.
With the games I play, we tend to use either all my dice or all a friends so we get the same advantage/disadvantage and then there is no squabbling over whose dice are whose.
The only time we tend to use different dice are for big rolls, high strength pie plates, which we use the large appocalypse dice, because they are big moments

I think if you do have custom dice they should be consistent with the special glyph on all the 1s or all the 6s having both is just confusing

[eldargal]

Silliness

Casino dice aren't gaining an advantage, they are simply dice that are designed to match the probabilities as possible. If everything everyone should be made to use casino dice, not people who do looked down upon. Of all the things to complain about people doing to gain an advantage this is perhaps the single most ridiculous I've seen.

Ignoring the fact that casino dice aren't somehow magical dice that will improve your rolls, an equal chance to roll a 6 over a 1 is not always a good thing.

[Mr Mystery]

3. You're just going to get stuck with chessix size dice, most likely. Plus, to be completely honest dice with icons are annoying for your opponent, because your opponent can't read them. I don't know if your icon represents a 6, or a 1, or if you're just cheating on me. It's kind of like picking up your hits rather than your misses so your opponent doesn't get a chance to verify them. It doesn't mean you're cheating, it's just kind of annoying for your opponent.

Amen to that brother!

They're nice and all, but FFS just use ones with dots on. Even worse as there is no industry standard on what the symbol replaces.

And I say that as a pretty dice whore. Got all the limited edition Warhammer Magic Dice (well, I ordered them all. Somehow I missed out on Celestial ) got a full compliment of the tinned 40k ones.

[OrksOrksOrks]

Any dice are flawed, I use a much better system, every time i need to roll a dice, i run out into the street and ask a stranger for a number between one and six, obviously it takes me a while to sort of my charging mob of ork boys, but I find this gives me a more fair distribution of numbers.

[Wolfshade]

Can I suggest using [url]http://www.random.org/dice/[/url] instead of people as they have their own biases, and if you run into me I would suggest either pi or e^1